In this era of globalization, it is important to provide Indian students with the awareness of global standards of learning. Internationalization of our higher education system is the best possible way to achieve it. Unfortunately, majority of Indian universities and colleges has not been able to integrate internationalization into their strategic planning and India lacks a national policy governing the entry or operation of foreign higher educational institutions. This ongoing scenario has been forcing our students to go abroad in pursuit of a better quality education and the increasing numbers of students migrating to other countries will not offer any major help to our education system. Today, India hosts around 30,000 international students compared to the 2,00,000 Indians studying abroad. Japan and China each have more than 1,00,000 international students, and the U.S. hosts more than 8,00,000.

Comparing the pace at which these countries are churning out quality education establishments, it is evident that India needs a serious revamping in its higher education policies. The need of the hour is to attract more students from abroad to embrace international culture in the campuses and to find a great source of additional revenue for ailing state universities as the fee charged for international students are much higher than what is being charged for domestic students. While, the country has many milestones to achieve in the higher education sector, it is never too late to prepare our students for the next gen knowledge battle by enabling our universities and institutes to compete with the high profile international universities. For the universities in India, it is the time to stop competing within the locality. It is the time for us to look at the international standards and join the race to become the global powerhouse.

This issue of SiliconIndia Education celebrates that progress of Indian higher education with its features on 'College of the Year' and 'Company of the Year.' The features speak of institutions that are making progress in their areas of expertise and technology companies that help education institutions to work better. The cover story of this issue features Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon – A premier management institute in India, which focus on creating more job providers rather than job seekers.