Aberystwyth to set up Mauritius branch campus

By David Matthews. Aberystwyth University is to set up a branch campus in Mauritius and start offering degrees from September this year. It will offer four undergraduate degree courses and one MSc postgraduate programme on the island, which lies to the east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. Aberystwyth will be the second UK universities to set up a branch campus in Mauritius – which is seeking to become an education hub for Africa – after Middlesex University opened one in 2010. More...