At least 25 of a total 60 Indian graduate students at Western Kentucky University have been asked to leave their computer science programme after the first semester as they do not meet its admission s
At least 25 of a total 60 Indian graduate students at Western Kentucky University have been asked to leave their computer science programme after the first semester as they do not meet its admission standards, a media report said on Tuesday.
The move will force the students to return to India or find placement in another university or programme in the US, less than six months since their enrolment in January after an aggressive recruitment campaign in India last summer and autumn lured them with tuition discounts and “spot admission”. The university used international recruiters, who had run advertisements, to find the students and compensated them based on how many students they enrolled.
James Gary, the chairman of the university’s computer science programme, said on Monday that “almost 40” of the students did not meet the requirements of their admissions, even though they were offered remedial help by the university.
While some students will be allowed to remain, at least 25 of the nearly 60 students in the programme must leave, he was quoted as saying by the New York Times.
Allowing the students to continue in the programme would “be throwing good money after bad,” he said, because they were unable to write computer programmes, a necessary part of the curriculum and a skill that American schools teach to undergraduates.
