Amity University is one of the largest Indian universities that has plans to expand in New York. The university has already purchased a campus in the Big Apple and has a proposal of buying two more. Reportedly, the state officials of Massachusetts have been opposing it as it sparked concerns with the quality of education it can deliver.
The university has successfully established its campuses in cities such as London, Singapore, China, South Africa and Dubai. According to Hindustan Times, Amity University has reportedly paid $22 million in September to buy a 170-acre campus in Long Island from St. John's University to open its first branch in the United States.
In India, Amity Education Group runs five universities, 17 schools and 150 other institutions. The University is planning to start its operations in June 2017. The university is planning to buy two more campuses including one near Boston. Amity University is currently in talks with New England Institute of Art, a college near Boston.
According to Quartz, the deal would require approval from state education officials of Massachusetts. However, attorney general Maura Healey admitted that they are very skeptical about this deal.
Even though the United States has successfully established its education empire in many countries around the globe, lesser nations have set up institutions in America due to its cost and tighter rules. "It's hard to imagine that this outfit from overseas, which has never done any education work here in this country, is well-suited to provide any kind of education to these students," Healey said as she is trying to get state's board of higher education to prevent the acquisition.
The Amity University run by Ritnand Balved Education Foundation has been under the scrutiny for several times. The founder Ashok Chauhan, a businessman and industrialist who spent decades in Germany, was charged for a fraud in German police. Additionally, Amity university's license was cancelled by the Idian government in 2005. However, Chauhan's sons Aseem and Atul are maintaining the education standards of the institutions with a strength of 125,000 students across 10 campuses in India.
