Pune: The Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) has collaborated with the Harvard Business School to soon offer 12 online programmes for students and its alumni across various disciplines.
According to SPPU vice-chancellor professor Nitin Karmalkar, the open market fee of these courses is from $1,200 to $1,800, but the SPPU will offer the programmes for $300- $400. The V-C spoke on the sidelines of the first day of the two-day annual senate meeting on Saturday.
“The courses are designed by Harvard Business School and the faculty is theirs. But, we have reached an agreement and will sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with them so that our students, as well as alumni, can make use of the 12 courses offered online by them,” V-C Karmalkar was quoted as saying by The Times of India.
“They will be certificate courses as well as diploma courses. The courses will be on new age topics such as data analytics. They will be offered in a synchronous mode to everyone,” the director of Innovation, Incubation and Linkages at the SPPU, Apoorva Palkar told the publication.
According to SPPU pro-vice-chancellor NS Umarani, working professionals and faculty members may find many of the courses useful. “We hope to start offering these courses around mid-October. They have such MoUs with nine institutes/universities in India and we are one,” Umarani said.
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