India, May 26 -- The United Kingdom's University of Liverpool on Monday received formal approval from the University Grants Commission (UGC) to open its Indian campus in Bengaluru, the second foreign university to receive approval after the University of Southampton.

Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan handed over the Letter of Intent (LoI) to set up a campus in India under the UGC (Setting Up and Operation of Campuses of Foreign Higher Educational Institutions in India) Regulations, 2023.

It is scheduled to accept students to its inaugural cohort of undergraduate and postgraduate students in August 2026. The university will initially offer programmes in business management, accounting and finance, computer science, and biomedic...