Foreign universities will need UGC's nod to set up campuses in India

They will only be allowed to offer full-time programmes in physical mode and not online or distance learning

University Grants Commission's (UGC) Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar on Thursday said that foreign universities can set up their campuses in India but they will need the commissions's nod to set up before doing so. The initial approval will be for 10 years. 

In the draft regulations for 'Setting up and Operation of Campuses of Foreign Higher Educational Institutions in India', UGC said that foreign varsities with campuses in the country will only be allowed to offer full-time programmes in physical mode and not online or distance learning.

These universities will have the freedom to devise their own admission process and