Eligibility

• All Indian Institutions ranked in the overall top-100 or category-wise top-100 in the India Rankings (NIRF-2019) are eligible to apply.

Coordination Mechanism

Each eligible Institution will have an identified Institute Coordinator selected by the Head of the Institution and a SPARC Committee for monitoring the SPARC programme in the Institute.

The partner Foreign Institution shall be in the top-500 QS-2020 World University Ranking or in the top-200 QS-2019 World University Ranking by subject to be eligible to be supported under SPARC.