'University of Manavallu': In Silicon Valley, a dodgy Chinese-Telugu alliance
"...But nothing prepares you for Silicon Valley University (SVU) and Northwestern Polytechnic (NWP), two Bay Area schools that are currently in the news in India because several students who came here to study have been deported, and others have not been allowed to board flights from Hyderabad on their way here. Two days of moseying around these sketchy colleges yielded the following observation: saturated as they are with students from Andhra and Telangana, well may they dub them Sri Venkateswara University and Nalgonda-Warangal Polytechnic.
Here's the inside - and outside - scoop about SVU and NWP. The two institutions, run mainly by Chinese-American principals, appear to cater almost exclusively to Indian applicants; students who spoke to this correspondent said more than 70 per cent of the nearly 5000 enrolled in two schools are from these two states, and clearly and audibly, Telugu is the lingua franca on campus.
They could also call it "University of Manavallu" ("our people" in Telugu).
"..Even a cursory tour of the institutions and interviews with students points to a massive academic rip-off where getting a good education and earning a degree is secondary to immigration. These are basically education warehouses, diploma mills that are acting as turnstiles for hopeful immigrants..."
"..So for $20,000 (close to Rs 14 lakh at current exchange rates), institutions such as SVU and NWP lower the bar for students to gain admission to their courses (sans any rigor with regards to qualifying tests such as GRE or GMAT), facilitate their post-degree job search, and mainstream them in the US.
Remarkably, the institutions have very few Chinese students (compared to Indians), although some students at NWP said they also had Pakistani classmates..."
"..Anecdotal accounts in areas near the institutions indicate illegal household help, including baby sitting, is available for below minimum wage because of the profusion of indigent students from India, less than ten per cent of whom are female..."
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