Universities from China, France, Israel, UK and Canada came together for joint-PhD degree programmes with IIT-Madras recently. The five universities are Université de Technologie de Troyes, UTT of France, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) in China, University of Waterloo in Canada and University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom.
The joint PhD programme is aimed at developing research with a global flavour in multiple disciplines with doctoral faculty ‘intellectual go-betweens’ between countries.
