178 overseas applicants seek admission to Maharshi Dayanand University Rohtak

Rohtak, September 29

As many as 178 students from 22 countries have sought admission to different undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU) in Rohtak.

As per official sources, the MDU administration has got applications from the students of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, China, Sri Lanka, Kazakistan, Indonesia, Iraq, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Palestine, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe.

Sarvajeet Singh Gill, Deputy Adviser (International Relations), Centre for International Academic Affairs at the MDU, said 147 applications had come through the Study In India programme of the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and 10 through the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), while 21 students had applied through the university portal directly.

“The MDU is among the country’s universities and educational institutes that are organizing the online orientation programmes as part of the Digital Orientation Week under the aegis of the Union Ministry of Education from September 28 to October 1,” he said, adding that the university’s orientation session would be held on September 30.

Gill said of the 157 applicants allotted to the MDU through the MHRD and ICCR, 113 had been found eligible for the courses they had applied for.

The academic disciplines for which the applications of the foreign students have been received at the MDU include law, economics, public administration, English, genetics, microbiology, bioinformatics, management, commerce, computer sciences and applications, education, food technology, hotel and tourism management, journalism and communication, geography, Hindi, library and information science, physical education, psychology, physics, political science, sociology, Sanskrit, visual arts, engineering and technology, botany and environment science. — TNS