Hyderabad: The Mahindras have diversified into the higher education. Its group company, Tech Mahindra, has established an engineering college in association with the 200-year-old French university, Ecole Centrale and Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University.
The institute, which has come up at Tech Mahindra’s Bahadurpally property here, will offer a dual degree. Students will get a B.Tech. degree from JNTU and after completing the fifth year, they would get M.Tech from the French university.
Vineet Nayyar, Executive Vice-Chairman of Tech Mahindra, said though the country had scores of engineering colleges, there is vacuum when it comes to quality. Though the country has some good colleges, they have failed to meet global benchmarks.
After consolidating the activities of college, Tech Mahindra would set up satellite centres in cities such as Jaipur, Pune, Chennai and Goa.
Mahindra Ecole Centrale, which will begin courses from the next summer, will take students based on their performance in the common IIT entrance examination, C. P. Gurnani, Chief Executive officer and Managing Director of Tech Mahindra, said.
The fee structure for the courses, however, has not been decided yet. The curriculum would conform to the norms the AICTE (All-India Council for Technical Education).
The college, however, is not to be restricted to technological studies only. There would be several other streams such as energy, infrastructure and humanities. “The college will have a modern and international academic programme that blends basic scientific and technical education with contemporary industry practices,” Nayyar said.
“Our integrated curriculum will develop students with the unique ability to adapt to global engineering challenges and new technologies that will shape our future and also to master the complexity of multinational organisations,” he said.
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