IIT-Madras on Monday became the first IIT to open an international campus with the inauguration of a campus in Zanzibar in Tanzania, an East African country.
IIT-Madras Zanzibar campus has 45 students in BS and MTech artificial intelligence and data science courses.
Zanzibar president Hussein Ali Mwinyi inaugurated the campus at Zanzibar in the presence of Tanzanian officials, Indian dignitaries, faculty and students.