Ashoka University welcomes undergraduate students from other colleges and universities in India to experience the university’s unique academic offerings through the Visiting Indian Students Programme.
The Visiting Indian Students Programme is specifically designed to foster exchange of ideas between undergraduate students from across educational institutions and those at Ashoka. In keeping with this ethos and despite the restrictions on physical mobility on account of COVID-19; this purpose will be fulfilled, this year, by conducting all course online.
Enrolling for the summer term at Ashoka provides you an opportunity to take courses and study with Ashoka’s global faculty. This will expand the academic range of topics you could be studying. It will help build on your academic prowess, experience the liberal arts and sciences pedagogy or simply explore other areas of interest. The summer term provides you the opportunity to study with Ashoka students and with students from international institutions giving you an experience in global learning in a virtual setting.
Here are some of the advantages the summer term provides for Visiting Indian students:
1. Opportunity to study with Ashoka’s eminent global faculty
2. Expand your academic interests and skills
3. Explore a new field or topic of your interest
4. Experience the liberal arts and sciences pedagogy
5. Learn the Multi-disciplinary method of problem-solving
6. Focus on a new subject intensely over the summer
7. Prepare for higher studies in academics or research
8. Earn credits towards your major/minor and fulfil the requirement for your degree
9. Peer learning with international students from some of the world’s finest institutions
10. An opportunity to study with Ashoka Students
11. Share your perspectives in a global virtual learning setting
If you would like to gain credits for the courses you take at Ashoka please pursue that with your college/university and the Office of Summer programmes at Ashoka will help to follow up. In order to maximize the benefit of the summer term, all students are encouraged to seek academic advising before registering for courses. All summer students, no matter which college or university they are from, will get a summer transcript from Ashoka.
As the summer term has moved online owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Office of Summer Programmes at the university offers several opportunities for students to meet and interact in a number of forums beyond the classroom. These take the form of social and cultural activities online and includes virtual tours of cultural sites of India, speaker series, social mixers, book clubs, coursework related small group hangouts, reading groups, weekend activities, and more.
