Welcome to the Office of International Relations at Nirma University! We support students, scholars and faculty members from a diverse array of nations and cultures.

As the word “University” contains the meaning “Whole or Entire”, Nirma University has been shaping a better future of mankind by all-round development of its students; and internationalization is one of the processes to achieve the same. Internationalization at Nirma provides an outlook – knowledge has no borders and let the good thoughts come from all directions. And with that, our students get equipped with the skills and information required to successfully handle the global challenges.

There are several features of internationalization at Nirma University. The curricula of various degree programs are designed based on trends in the national as well as international communities and businesses. The text books and reference books our students refer are from international publishers. Our library is rich with international books, magazines, journals and databases. We have been organizing international conferences in the fields of Engineering, Business, Law and Pharmacy over the last two decades. Another feature is to provide our graduates professional careers as well as higher-education options with international exposure. The Placement offices of the university provides our graduates plenty of career options in multi-national companies which is necessary in the current scenario of the business, science and technology becoming global and inter-disciplinary. To name a few multi-national companies where our graduates find excellent careers are Intel, Google, Goldman Sachs, Micron, Mitsubishi, Johnson & Johnson, Citibank, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, TCS etc. Adding international elements in our teaching-learning, we employ collaborative teaching in a few courses where a Nirma faculty member joins hands with a faculty member from a foreign university and the students are taught the entire course jointly. Considering the importance of the greatest degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), we invite a faculty member from a foreign university as a reviewer of the research progress, and also an evaluator of the dissertation. To emphasize the international nature of the research, we insist our faculty members publish their research findings in international conferences and Scopus, Web of Science or PubMed listed international journals. This exposure provides valuable comments and suggestions to the faculty research from all over the world which keeps the research UpToDate, pragmatic and universal.

Another feature of Nirma’s internationalization is to offer international transfer programs with dual degrees. The National Education Policy 2020 instructs higher education institutions to provide students international exposure by incorporating twinning programs, dual degree programs and foreign internships – and Nirma provides all of these options. Our students have been placed at our partner universities abroad like University of Southern California, US, Florida Atlantic University, US, SUNY Binghamton, US, University of Victoria, Canada, Hoff University, Germany for the summer research internships and excursions. We have Dual Degree transfer programs in Technology and Pharmacy where students study in Nirma as well as in a foreign country and get degrees from both universities. We also have twinning programs in Technology, Architecture, Law, Business where the students go to a foreign country for a semester-abroad program; and similarly foreign students enrol in Nirma for a semester study. Many of our graduates go to foreign countries to pursue Master’s degrees in the fields of Technology, Architecture, Design, Law, Pharmacy and Business from the world-renowned universities.

Nirma University, thus, achieves global standards of higher education through its dynamic internationalization process and contributes in the stronger nation building.

Dr Mehul R Naik
Director, International Relations