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The University of Liverpool has begun enactment connected its proposed Bengaluru campus with a ground-breaking ceremonial held astatine Alembic City connected Monday.
The campus, which is scheduled to statesman operations successful 2026, volition connection UK-accredited degree programmes in Computer Science, Business Management, Accounting and Finance, Biomedical Sciences and Game Design. The Game Design people volition beryllium the archetypal such programme offered by a UK assemblage field successful India. Applications for the 2026 world twelvemonth person already opened.
Top 150
The University of Liverpool is ranked among the apical 150 universities globally successful the QS World University Rankings. It received support successful May 2025 from the Union Ministry of Education to establish a field successful India nether the University Grants Commission’s 2023 regulations for overseas higher acquisition institutions, successful enactment with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
Integrated facility
The University said the Bengaluru field has been designed arsenic an integrated teaching and probe facility, with astute classrooms, specialised laboratories, probe and innovation spaces, collaboration hubs and entree to Bloomberg terminals. The aim, according to the institution, is to harvester world learning with manufacture engagement and interdisciplinary research.
The ground-breaking ceremony was attended by elder enactment from the University of Liverpool, representatives of the UK government, among others. Chandru Iyer, Deputy British High Commissioner to Karnataka and Kerala, who had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University astatine its motorboat lawsuit successful May this year, was among the cardinal attendees.
Professor Tim Jones, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool, said Karnataka’s presumption arsenic a centre for cognition and technology, on with Alembic City’s absorption connected education, probe and innovation, influenced the prime of location. Mr. Iyer said the caller field would lend to expanding entree to UK higher acquisition for Indian students.
Adaptive reuse
The campus plan is based connected adaptive reuse of the erstwhile solid mill astatine Alembic City, with concern structures being repurposed into world spaces, Architect Ram Joshi said.
