A university is the hardest institution to build from the ground up, because almost nobody does. The overwhelming majority of new Indian universities are assembled by copying one that already exists and then adding a technology budget to it.

The method is well worn. A promoter secures land, engages an architect who has done campuses before, adopts the programme mix of a successful institution two states away, hires a registrar from an established university to run the approvals, buys a learning management system and a student information system, and opens. The result is competent and entirely derivative. It is also, for the first decade, financially rational: a template that has cleared the regulator once will clear it again.

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