First IIT Campus outside India set up in Zanzibar, Tanzania

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Category : Science and Tech Published on: July 08 2023

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The first IIT campus to be set up outside India will be in Zanzibar, Tanzania.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed for setting up of a campus of IIT Madras in Zanzibar, which is a Tanzanian archipelago off the coast of East Africa.
The campus, named IIT Madras at Zanzibar, is set to commence operations in October 2023 and will initially admit 50 undergraduate students and 20 master's students.
The IIT is about to set up three campuses outside India, including Zanzibar, Abu Dhabi and Kuala Lumpur.