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The Ministry of Education handed over the Letter of Approval (LoA) to the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, to establish its branch campus in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
Yesterday the LoA was handed over by Dr. Vineet Joshi, Secretary, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education and Chairman, University Grants Commission (UGC), to Professor Richard Grose, Provost, University of Liverpool Bengaluru, in the presence of Union Minister for Education Dharmendra Pradhan, External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar and the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, Rt. Hon. Yvette Cooper.
The event was attended by senior dignitaries from India and the United Kingdom, including Vikram Misri, Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, Lindy Cameron, CB OBE, British High Commissioner to India.
The University of Liverpool was granted a Letter of Intent (LoI) on 26 May 2025 in New Delhi under the UGC (Setting Up and Operation of Campuses of Foreign Higher Educational Institutions in India) Regulations, 2023.
Over the past year, the University completed the required academic, infrastructure and regulatory preparations.
The University has now been granted the LoA to commence operations in India, following an assessment of its readiness and compliance with the provisions of the Regulations by the UGC.
The University campus in Bangalore will offer Under Graduate and Post Graduate programmes in areas such as business management, computer science, game design, finance and biomedical sciences. It also plans to introduce additional disciplines in the coming years.
