The collaborations will allow both India and the U.S. to gain academic and economic...
are among a growing list of U.S. higher education institutions forging stronger partnerships with India as that country continues to chart relentless economic growth, signaling that it has seemingly replaced China as America's preferred academic and research partner.
UH and Rice already have multiple programs, helped by being in a city with a large Indian population: UH offers an India Studies minor, and Rice opened a joint venture in 2020 with the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur to research global energy demand. And the school just formalized a fellowship program that supports Kanpur students in coming to Rice to aid in ongoing research, said Rice Global Vice President Caroline Levander.
Decades later, after massive growth to the sector, the country is still not meeting its postsecondary education needs: Half of the population is under 25 years old, according to the National Association of Foreign Student Advisers. About 200,000 Indian students already come to the U.S. for undergraduate or graduate education each year, contributing nearly $7.7 billion to the U.S. economy, state department officials said.
He fears that the U.S. will look the other way on certain injustices in a trade-off for gains in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, or STEM, fields.
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