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IIT Madras Zanzibar campus inaugurated

IndiaTimes Monday, 6 November 2023
The President of Zanzibar, Hussein Ali Mwinyi, has inaugurated the first-ever international campus of an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chennai. The campus, called IIT Madras Zanzibar, has admitted its first batch of students, which includes women from Zanzibar, mainland Tanzania, Nepal, and India. The campus currently offers Bachelor's and Master's programs in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, with plans to expand its academic offerings in the future. A permanent campus will also be built jointly by the governments of Zanzibar and India.
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