The cost of studying at an international branch campus in India is twice as expensive as attending an elite local university but only a third of the cost of studying abroad, according to a researcher who analysed the tuition fees of all the new sites launched in recent years.
Across the 14 international campuses now operating in India, Rahul Choudaha, the director of DrEducation Research, found the average annual undergraduate tuition fee is £10,140. This falls in-between the cost of studying at a Tier 1 private university in India (£4,680) and studying abroad at the home campus of one of the institutions now operating in India (£28,080).
A total of 13 universities have a presence across India through 14 campuses. There are seven UK campuses and 50 programmes, and six Australian campuses (the University of Western Australia is based in two locations) and 33 programmes.
The gap between the cost of private higher education and studying abroad has always been steep, and Choudaha told Times Higher Education that the international campus has stepped in “somewhere in the middle”.
But his report found that the annual tuition fees of UK and Australian university campuses in India vary significantly.
