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The $100M that graduated Ashoka University in higher education

Ashoka University’s growth proves parents and students are betting on an ‘education for life’. More private universities with the ‘liberal’ label are coming up. Perhaps the time and place for a less rigid curriculum is here. Time also for employers to change?

22/11/19

Seema Singh

Ashoka University arrived on India’s higher education scene with $100 million in philanthropic capital, a liberal arts promise and a signal for change

Five years and 2000 students later, it has much to show for, including a new campus coming up next door at an investment of Rs 1000 crore

Over 100 recruiters, from top-notch consultants to tech companies, are queuing up. Important, but not the only measure of success of a university

Ashoka has many tight ropes to walk as it goes deeper into smaller towns, adds socio-economic diversity, thousands of more students, and yet aspire to be a research-driven financially sustainable university

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“If you can read [Immanuel] Kant, write a paper, critique his writing, if you can do abstract algebra, game theory…you can do accounting,” says Ashish Dhawan, co-founder of Ashoka University. The former private equity investor doesn’t mean to slight accounting.

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