Anand Mahindra built an elite engg university. It isn’t attracting elite students |
An engineering degree at Mahindra University costs in the region of Rs 20 lakh. But it is free, the institution announced earlier in June, for any student who qualifies the national entrance exam JEE with a high rank. A generous offer, surely. But it might not find many takers.
That, after all, is what history suggests.
The private university bankrolled by the billionaire industrialist Anand Mahindra launched six years ago seeking to disrupt elite engineering education in the country, much like Ashoka and OP Jindal Global universities had done with liberal arts. But it has........