JKLU Partners with University of Birmingham

This week we announced a partnership with University of Birmingham in UK. We are very excited about it since UoB is a top 100 university in the world and getting access to such a university for our students will obviously boost their learning and their careers. The current partnership will mostly benefit our engineering students though we will keep working with them in the future to expand the scope of this relationship.

The partnership entails two things. One is being able to move to UoB after completing their 2nd year at JKLU and earning the under-graduate degree from there (in a total of 4 years) with cutting edge specializations, and the other is a semester abroad program.

The first aspect of the partnership is applicable to students of Mechanical Engineering and Electronics Engineering. They can pursue degrees in Mechatronics, Robotics and Automotive engineering. Of course, they can also continue with a broad based degrees in Mechanical or Electronics too, if they so desire. Students who are performing well at JKLU can get lateral admission to these bachelors programs at UoB. This will be of interest to those students who want a specialization in their Bachelors degree and may want an international career. The fact that UoB is situated at the heart of innovation in UK, and has been rated number one on the list of UK universities most frequently targeted by the country's top employers in 2021 is a big plus.

Studying abroad is expensive but these partnerships bring the threshold lower so that more people can afford it. In this particular case, one needs to spend only two years abroad and hence there is a cost reduction. Also, when you go through this partnership, there is a significant scholarship (up to 20% of the tuition there) that further reduces the cost. And what JKLU does is that it will charge the same tuition from students interested in these programs as it charges other engineering students (unlike some other private institutions who have a higher fee for students who show interest in such partnerships). In fact, since students interested in such partnerships will have to have a higher marks in 12th class, most of them will get a substantial scholarship from JKLU (usually between 50% and 100% of both academic fee and hostel fee, check our website for exact rules for scholarships in the first year, and rules for continuation in successive years).

It may be noted that the current policy of UK government is to allow foreign graduates of UK universities to stay on for two more years after graduation. Of course, these rules keep changing. But the current policy appears to be to attract foreign students to UK by allowing them extra time beyond graduation and also allow work visa to highly qualified individuals.

JKLU has always believed that exposure to the best in the world is extremely useful for students in their careers and those who can afford it should go for it. The future of work is in working with teams across nations, across cultures and across disciplines and an exposure to diversity and high quality as a student will prepare you for that future. For those who cannot afford, we do try to bring in faculty from different backgrounds, sometimes for full courses and sometimes for guest lectures. And we are delighted that our engineering students will have an option to spend a semester (maximum two) at UoB.

If you are interested in knowing more about this or any other international partnership of JKLU, please write to international.affairs@jklu.edu.in