Jun 23 2008
Indian students among the best: Oxford!
It’s very good news to the Indian students and Indian nation too that the very well known and renowned Oxford University of London has rated the Indian students among the best in the world.
Oxford has presently 257 Indian students on roll, one-third the numbers of students from China. Still the Indians have won more scholarships than the Chinese. Last year, according to an Oxford journal they had won 54 different scholarships, including the prestigious ‘Rhodes Scholarship’.
The university Chancellor Chris Patten has said that they would like more of them joining its campus.
“We want more Indian students because we want the best in the world to come to Oxford,” Patten said. Most of the Indian students are in the said business school.
“About a quarter of the students are doing MBAs… But I would like to see more in social sciences and humanities, doing both under-graduate and post-graduate work,” he said.
The number of Indians is less in the university as compared to Chinese. But still they are the best.
“They (Indians) probably got more than China,” the Chancellor said. He said the number of scholarships may go up as the university improves its financial position.
“I hope as we develop our endowments we will be able to offer many more (scholarships) to post-graduate students in the next few years,” Patten said.
The university has developed a master’s program in South Asian studies. For a one-year MBA program, it could cost as much as Rs 40 lakh, including the cost of tuition fee, boarding and lodging and the out-of-pocket expenses.
Students are also satisfied in the university. They are gaining the profit of their studies in Oxford.
“It is a different world out here…We are gaining immensely,” said Karandeep Singh Vohra, pursuing MBA at the said business school.
This is really a proud feature for the Indians. Oxford is the famed university which produced the likes of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia.
