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Mahindra to launch interdisciplinary University in Hyderabad

The Mahindra group has announced that they will be launching Mahindra University in Hyderabad. It is to be a centre of multidisciplinary learning, built up over a sprawling 130-acre campus. It will be an autonomous university and will offer courses from the undergraduate level up till the Doctorate.

The university is said to have a School of Management (2021-22), School of Law (2021-22), Indira Mahindra School of Education (2021-22), School of Media and Liberal Arts (2022-23) and School of Design (2023-24). It will also include the Ecole Centrale School of Engineering that was set up in 2014. The livemint reported that contemporary curricula is being curated to fully leverage emerging technologies like data science, blockchain and data analytics.

“The pandemic has created more speculation around education in the new world. Along with moving education online, there is a need for change in the content. In the post-COVID world, there will be a need for more people who understand humanities while applying technology to solve those problems and there will be jobs to compensate them at par,” said Mahindra at the launch.

Mahindra University is part of the Mahindra Educational Institutions (MEI), a not-for-profit subsidiary of Tech Mahindra.

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