an evergrowing student population eager to study abroad has geared manyaforeign universities and institutions pulling all stops in india to woo indian students recently the middlesex university mu one of the largest universities in the uk with 25000 students and 2500 staff led a delegation to india to look at the possibility of collaborations with indian partners mainly in the area of student exchange and other areasthe pro vicechancellor and dean of school school of health and social sciences mu who led the delegation margaret a house said we have almost 5000 international students from 130 countries worldwide at middlesex and out of these india and china lead the pack we are definitely keen on having more indian students at the university for this purpose we are talking to several reputed indian institutions like the jamia hamdard st stephens college among others to start various mutuallybeneficent activitiesthe mu has four offices in india at delhi mumbai chennai ahmedabad the fifth office is slated to be inaugurated at hyderabad on october 15 of this year through these offices it admits indian students for its various courses house remarked the university has five schools in the areas of business computer science arts lifelong learning and health and social sciences a diverse range of study programmes are available through these schools however it was management and computer courses that indian students went for mostly at middlesexaccording to the regional director south asia mu maroof raza most of the indian students studying at middlesex are pursuing a mix of undergraduate and postgraduate courses while studying at the university you have the advantage of getting a globallyrecognised qualification at a reasonable cost moreover meritorious students are eligible for scholarships as well additionally students can earn parttime which reduces their fee burden to a considerable extentmu doesnt have any plans to start a campus in india for the time being this visit aims at preparing the groundwork to explore avenues for partnership in the future with indian institutions of repute but these partnership ventures will depend on the way indian institutions respond and reciprocate and then the modalities will be worked out house addedas for the latest plans of middlesex house exclaimed that the university was setting up a campus in dubai she said that the campus would welcome the first batch of students to the knowledge village campus of the mu in dubai to start with two programmes namely ba hons in business administration and b sc hons in business information systems will be offered at this campus from january 2005wwwmdxacuk