♤ About 130,000 Indian students are pursuing advanced degrees in the U.S.

♤ The Higher Education Dialogue, which has had four meetings since 2011 , laid out the road map for promoting strategic institutional partnerships, deepening collaboration in research and development, fostering partnerships in vocational education and focusing on junior faculty development.

♤ India is learning from the U.S. experience in community colleges in order to meet our demands for skill-development.

♤ It has been agreed to collaborate with U.S. institutions in the area of Technology Enabled Learning and Massive Open On-line Courses (MOOCs) to extend the reach of education in India.

♤ Under the Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) launched by India, upto 1000 American academics will be invited and hosted each year to teach in Indian universities at their convenience.

♤ The two sides have also collaborated to establish a new Indian Institute of Technology in Ahmedabad/Gandhinagar.