Tanzania: 1st offshore IIT campus to open in Zanzibar



Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Tuesday that the IIT-Madrascampus in Tanzania to be inaugurated in November. Pradhan made the announcement at an event to confer an honorary doctorate by JNU on Tanzania President Samia Suluhu Hassan.
“I am happy that the first offshore campus of any IIT is being set up in Zanzibar. I am told that IIT-Madras’ Zanzibar campus is scheduled to be inaugurated early next month,” said Pradhan. The minister said the institute will prove to be a milestone in educational cooperation by providing students from Tanzania and other African countries access to world-class engineering and technology education.
“I will also be coming to Tanzania for this pivotal role in promoting the education agenda domestically and regionally through its national strategy for growth and poverty reduction,” said Pradhan.





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