India, Feb. 10 -- Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech), one of the foreign universities approved by the University Grants Commission (UGC) last June, is set to begin its academic year in Mumbai this August on a temporary campus at Vikhroli on land owned by Godrej Industries. For starters, the university will offer four undergraduate courses and four postgraduate courses available in computer science, data science, artificial intelligence, and business.

Industrialist Jamshyd N Godrej, who was instrumental in facilitating the Vikhroli land, is an Illinois Tech alumnus. Apart from him, other alumni include Rohit Prasad, head of Amazon's Artificial General Intelligence and the lead scientist behind Amazon's Alexa; Rajeev Chandras...