UK’s University of Southampton launched its Indian campus here on Wednesday, becoming the first foreign university to operationalise a full fledged campus in the country under UGC norms, officials said.

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, who inaugurated the campus along with Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, termed it a significant milestone in India’s higher education landscape.

The university received a Letter of Intent (LoI) last year under the University Grants Commission’s (Setting up and Operation of Campuses of Foreign Higher Educational Institutions in India) Regulations to set up a campus in India.