American Colleges Set Up Shop in India

Learning Curve: American Colleges Rush to Set up Shop in India
Photographs by Sanjit Das / Panos for TIME

Case Study
With 400 million people under the age of 18 and a blistering economy that has readjusted aspirations across the country, higher education in India is a boom market. India has 20,000 higher-education institutions — the most of any country in the world and three times as many as exist in the U.S. Indians also spend $7.5 billion annually earning degrees in other countries. Here, assistant professor Oishik Sircar discusses Hobbes with his first-year political theory and thought class at Jindal Global Law School, outside Delhi.

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