India, July 17 -- The University of Southampton on Wednesday inaugurated its new campus in Gurugram, Delhi-NCR. Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and other dignitaries were present at the event.

The university is the first international institution to open a campus in India under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and licensed by the University Grants Commission.

The University of Southampton Delhi-NCR campus will initially offer undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in Business Management, Accounting and Finance, Computer Science, Economics, Finance, and International Management. The first cohort of around 150 students will take up their places in August.

The university, in a press release, said it plans to ...