The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School plans to expand its presence in India over the next year and a half, according to a recent article in India’s Economic Times.
“Our students are already coming to India,” Wharton Dean Thomas Robertson told the ET. “The difficulty is that the world does not know Wharton is in India,” he continued. The school will zero in on either Mumbai or Delhi for the planned expansion, the ET reports.
Robertson was in Delhi to sign an agreement with the Indian School of Business (ISB) to develop the Max Institute of Healthcare Management at ISB’s new Mohali campus, the ET reports. Wharton and the Kellogg School of Management have been associate schools with ISB since its inception 10 years ago.
Beyond the new healthcare institute with ISB, Wharton features executive education programs in India and sends its executive MBA student faculty on study trips there, according to the ET report. “All or some of this could be part of our physical presence model in India,” Robertson told the ET, although Wharton is ruling out plans for a campus in India at present. Wharton has also extended its focus toward expansion in China.
ISB’s Mohali campus will feature four specialized institutes, the Max Institute of Healthcare Management, Bharti Institute of Public Policy, BML Munjal Institute of Manufacturing and Operation Excellence and Punj Lloyd Institute of Physical Infrastructure Management.
“We are focusing on four national priorities in the country – manufacturing, infrastructure, public policy and healthcare,” ISB Dean Ajit Rangnekar told the ET. “We have to build management capacity in all these areas,” he added. The Mohali campus will welcome its first 210 students in 2012, the ET reports.
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