Supertech to set up university; to invest Rs 750 crore

New Delhi: Real estate developer Supertech is all set to foray into higher education with Supertech University. It will be set up with an investment of Rs 750 crore in Udham Singh Nagar district of Uttarakhand, around 237 km from Delhi. It will be spread across 47 acres and will have state-of-the-art infrastructure and a fully residential campus.

“In 2006 we entered Uttarakhand and realised a big gap existed in the society in terms of quality higher education; we plan to fill that gap with this university,” said RK Arora, Chairman and Managing Director of Supertech Ltd during the press conference. “We and plan to expand up to 100 acres.”

The university will be funded by the Supertech Foundation, a trust of Supertech Ltd.

“The university's operations will start by end of this year and we plan to offer MDPs and skill development programmes starting from December,” said VPS Arora, Vice-Chancellor of Supertech University.

The academic session will be launched next year with graduate and postgraduate programmes. The university plans to admit 500 to 1,000 students in its first year, and will take this number up to 5,000 to 6,000 in the next five years after the launch. As per the UGC requirements 25 per cent of the students at university should hail from Uttarakhand.

Programmes OFFERED
The university will offer programmes in the domains of architecture and planning, earth, environment and space studies, engineering and technology, fashion and design, hospitality and tourism, languages and communication, law and governance, liberal arts, humanities and social sciences, management studies, medical and health sciences, natural and applied sciences and public policy.

The university also plans to create a Directorate of Skill Development to enhance the employability of its students.