I watched the coverage of Tri-Valley University bust in Indian national media to get a sense of meida perspective. I respect Arnab Goswami of Times Now very much and in fact rated him more than Rajdeep Sardesai when they both were at NDTV but in this subject, the way he conducted the debate disappointed me. NDTV's Barkha Datt did touch on the central point but not as much as I liked her to. The central point, in my view, is not whether the students should be tagged with a GPS or not but the point should be, what brains and balls did these students have to choose this school for Masters education.
This is what the website says about the university.
Tri-Valley University is a Christian Higher Education Institution aiming to offer rigorous and excellent quality academic programs in the context of Christian faith and world view. Tri-Valley University's academic programs include School of Engineering (Department of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering), School of Business and School of Art (School of Trinity), School of Law and School of Medicine. Degree programs in these schools are Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Master of Science (M. S.), Master in Business Administration (MBA), Master of Art (MA), MA in Library Science (MALS), and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.). Non-degree programs are certificate program and open-enrollment programs.
Our mission is to make Christian scientists, engineers, business leaders and lawyers for the glory of God, with both solid academic professionalism and Christian faith, therefore to live out Christ-like characters, value and compassion in the world, to make an impact and shine as its light. Our Institution Objective is to equip individual with academic excellence, practical skillfulness and spiritual maturity. We advocate Academic Excellence, Character Integrity, Christ-like Compassion, Inclusion and non-discrimination, and Integration-integration of academic professionalism with Christian faith, integration of principle with practical application, integration of career pursuit with spiritual growth.
Who in India or World for that matter will even consider going to a school in a Foreign country to become a Christian engineer? What is "Christian Engineer" supposed to mean? In both NDTV and Times Now debate, a guy of less than my age, who is a brother of a girl admitted into the TVU, complained that US Govt is wrong in how it is dealing with this and Indian Govt isn't doing enough. Did he or his sister do enough when they looked at schools she should be getting into?
Many students from Andhra Pradesh get to US on F1 visa not for Masters education but get a H1B visa subsequently. This has proven to be an easier route to H1B visa than getting in line for a H1B, which has higher rejection rates. Tri-Valeey Univ. had their 95% students from the very Andhra Pradesh that sends good number of students to Ivy League institutes. TVU had pointed to 2 people of Andhra Pradesh origin to be masterminding the whole admission process, which is yet to be proven but I believe that to be near true. When US Immigration and Customs arrested 11 individuals with charges related H1B visa fraud sometime last year, 8 of them were identified to be of Andhra Pradesh origin. People in Andhra Pradesh will have to realize that it is good to have your near and dear in US but that isn't the single most thing a student can do to make you proud.
Parents and Engineering Graduates in AP need to understand that joining a school abroad is a mega deal in anybody's career and there should be every effort put to find out every single detail before shortlisting the school. If not, you should face the consequences; in this case wearing radio collars until deportation!
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