Bengaluru: It is high time students started viewing India as a land of opportunities and parents started exploring the Indian education ecosystem with the same seriousness as those abroad, said experts at the second edition of ‘India Rising: Aspiring Undergrads Summit’ organised by Vidyashilp University on Saturday.The summit, designed to help families and students navigate the all-important decision of where to pursue undergraduate studies, saw academicians and policymakers call for a mindset shift. Vidyashilp University vice-chancellor PG Babu urged students to “think fearlessly, consider the larger purpose of their education, and see India as a land of limitless possibility”. Calling for a curriculum overhaul, he added: “We must use the National Education Policy’s promise of true multidisciplinary mobility to put mathematics, data literacy, and the language of economics at the core of every programme, while opening flexible pathways across law, liberal arts, engineering, and design.Employability will not rise by chance; it rises when curricula teach the grammar of modern life — mathematics, data, design thinking — inside a multidisciplinary frame. Independent, enabling regulation and stronger school-university-industry linkage can turn today’s uncertainty into opportunity, making higher education a first-choice aspiration across India and attracting talent from around the world.”
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Partha Ray, director of the National Institute of Bank Management, provided a sharp analysis of the economic and geopolitical shifts influencing higher education choices. “India is at an inflection point — economically, socially, and educationally. Indian higher education has the potential to become a global hub for affordability, innovation, and access, provided we align our institutions with the skills and industries of tomorrow.”While decoding the question ‘where to study: India or abroad?’, a panel discussion involving subject experts Vishnuteerth Agnihotri, Sajan Poovayya, Namita Mehta, and Chandan Gowda agreed that India’s higher education ecosystem has matured and offers globally competitive programmes in law, liberal arts, and STEM. Parents should evaluate education opportunities within the country, they suggested.