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Date:26/01/2009 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/edu/2009/01/26/stories/2009012650980300.htm

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Nishita college ties up with US varsity

In the light of increased H1 quota for US educated students, Nishita College of Engineering and Technology has tied up with Towson University, Maryland, USA, to ensure that the college students get admission only on TOEFL scores and fee waiver for students joining the four-year doctoral programme.

Chairman of the Nishita institutions, C. Vinaya Kumar said that their college students would also get application fee waiver at the University that is considered as one of the best regional public universities in the US. It offers more than 100 bachelors, masters and doctoral degree programmes with a strength of more than 21,000 students. As per the agreement, students of Nishita joining the doctoral programme would get 50 per cent assistantship in the first year of the MS course apart from $ 500 stipend per month. During the next three years all the admitted students will get 100 per cent assistantship and $ 1,000 stipend per month. “It’s a unique tie-up that will benefit our students enormously,” Mr. Vinaya Kumar said. He said such tie-ups also help in easy visa processing. Moreover, Towson University has agreed to admit students only on TOEFL scores .