Dr. Madhukar G Angur has studied and taught at some of the best universities in the developed world, and is unique in that he has visited around 200 of the best universities across the globe as part of his professional career as well as personal passion in discovering the best educational practices. Moreover, Dr. Angur is not only an ace academician but has been a successful entrepreneur in both USA and India, with one of the companies he founded being part of a publicly listed corporation. When it was created almost 10 years back, the infrastructure of Alliance University was one of the best in India. But so would feel the infrastructure of any new private university in the country. The beauty of Alliance Infrastructure is that even after a decade, it still comes across as one of the finest in India. Such has been the foresight and detailed planning that have gone into creating this unique private university in Bangalore. Most of its peers are not as equipped as Alliance on this front
because the brains behind this university have unparalleled exposure in several world-class universities of United States in different capacities. Alliance University is based at Bangalore which has successively been India’s Information Technology capital, Outsourcing capital, Biotechnology capital, E-Commerce capital, and Start-up capital, for definitive reasons. Much before Bangalore became all of these, it was the professional higher education capital of the country. The city boasts of the largest number of PhD holders in the country. Alliance University
being founded by the noted entrepreneur Dr. Madhukar Angur, is using this locational advantage in a strategic manner. Alliance students are also placed by some of the best e-com/ start-up companies, and the university has an incubation centre that also caters to public talent. In many universities across India, curriculum is all about academic rigor alone. While earlier this approach of focusing on the fundamentals, core, & electives, was enough to get a job, today’s demanding careers call for much more. Alliance University had already risen to this emerging challenge years back, and had innovated on co-curricular and extracurricular activities in a high-impact way. The university has been overflowing with co-curricular events like seminars and conferences, fieldbased projects modelled after the best in class which are conducted in close interaction with industries, and this has ensured that Alliance looks after not only academic rigor but also creating high-impact industrial relevance for its graduates. Over the first 10 years of its existence, Alliance University’s focus was on the professional
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