SMS Group ties-up with California State University, USA
A young, vibrant university, California State University, San Bernardino, (CSUSB) USA, one of the fastest growing universities in California, entered into an agreement and signed MoU with one of the top-most educational groups imparting professional education in India, School of Management Sciences (SMS) group with its campuses in Varanasi and Lucknow. This is the third International University with whom the SMS group has tied-up for variety of academic related programmes. The earlier two are the Claflin University, USA and UNESP, Brazil.
As per the agreement, both institutions will try to develop collaboration between their colleges, departments, administrative staffs, and professors through such means as exchanges, sabbatical leave assignments, lectures, conferences, internships, workshops, collaborative research, joint projects with business and industry, and professional development programs with all colleges and faculties. Both institutions will try to exchange students, especially in the academic departments listed above and will try to undertake joint activities with their students and appropriate units in artistic, cultural, and athletic areas. Both institutions will promote institutional and academic cooperation through computing, telecommunications, and other modes of communication through information technology.
It is worth mentioning that more than 65,000 students have graduated from CSUSB, including many who work in Southern California and make a major positive impact on the economy. Founded in 1965, CSUSB currently enrolls more than 17,500 students and employs more than 2,100 faculty and staff. Located equidistant between Los Angeles and the Palm Springs area, the university offers more than 70 educational programmes and a wide variety of education credential and certificate programs, including many that have earned national recognition. Its business and entrepreneurship programmes are nationally respected; CSUSB is distinguished as the first Inland Empire University with prestigious national accreditation for its College of Business and Public Administration.
The MoU was signed by Prof. Manoj Mehrotra, Director, SMS-Lucknow and Prof. Albert Karnig, the third President of CSUSB. Prof. Vipin Gupta, Co-Director of Global Management Centre, CSUSB and Dr. Meenakshi Singh, Coordinator, Centre for International Relations, SMS, Varanasi along with Mr. Amitabh Pandey, Senior Lecturer, SMS Varanasi were present on the occasion. The Executive Secretary of SMS Society, Dr. M. P. Singh has hailed the latest tie-up and has equated the same to the planned inching of SMS Group towards global standards which happens to be a rare feat by a B-School, specially in the Northern and Eastern belt of the country.