We live here
Our team is based in India, and keeping up with how the country is changing is most of our working week. A lot of it ends up in our Field Guide. When we plan your program we start from what is happening now, not from a list of sights.
We know who to call
Most of the visits we arrange depend on relationships built over years: with companies and founders, government departments, hospitals, universities and farmers’ groups. We set up those meetings ourselves.
Your faculty set the agenda
Before anything is booked, we agree the learning goals and readings with your faculty. Every visit has to earn its place on the schedule, and most days end with time to talk through what the group saw.
No two programs look alike
Some groups come for ten days, some for part of a semester, some for a short executive visit. We plan the length, the cities and the pace around your course.
We stay with you
Travel within India, hotels, transfers, speakers and safety are on us, and someone from our team is with the group from arrival to departure. That leaves your faculty free to teach.
Since 2017
We have hosted groups from universities around the world. We were among the winners of the UN Tourism (UNWTO) Global Startup Competition for the Sustainable Development Goals, in the Quality Education category, and we wrote the book The India That Is Unique.
Where your group learns
Groups tend to remember the places more than the lectures. These are some we use, and every one is covered in our Field Notes. Click a place to see it on our map.
- Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai (Tamil Nadu)Each surgeon does over 2,000 cataract operations a year, and half the patients pay nothing.See it on the map →
- Engineering centres, Bengaluru (Karnataka)Global companies now design products here rather than just support them.See it on the map →
- Electronics plants around Hosur (Tamil Nadu)An hour from Bengaluru, where phones for export are assembled.See it on the map →
- Genome Valley, Hyderabad (Telangana)A cluster of labs and plants on the edge of the city, and a big part of why India supplies so much of the world’s medicine.See it on the map →
- Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai (Maharashtra)Home to the stock exchange and the market regulator behind India’s investor boom.See it on the map →
- Jamnagar and Kutch (Gujarat)A renewable energy complex under construction in the desert, and the refinery at Jamnagar.See it on the map →
- A grain market (mandi) in Punjab or HaryanaThe morning auction, and the politics of the price farmers are guaranteed.See it on the map →
- New DelhiBriefings on trade policy and how India deals with the rest of the world.See it on the map →
- A battery-swap station at shift change, in any large cityDelivery riders trade a flat battery for a charged one and are back on the road.See it on the map →
- A village banking agent, almost anywhereOften a shopkeeper with a fingerprint reader, and for millions of people the nearest thing to a bank branch.See it on the map →
How we work with you
- BriefYou tell us about your course, your students and what they need to come away with.
- DesignWe draft the program with your faculty: themes, cities, visits, speakers and reading.
- DeliverWe run it on the ground, with our team alongside your group the whole time.
- DebriefTime to reflect during the program, and a written summary when it ends.
Who we work with
- Universities and business schools: faculty-led study abroad, semester components and executive education
- Companies and governments: executive programs, delegations and trade missions
- Companies entering India: market research, introductions and support on the ground
- Why India: the six shifts that make India worth studying now
Our team
Immersion India was started by Vineeth Thomas and Anand Joseph. Both have long careers in education and close ties with institutions in India and abroad.
Planning a program in India?
Tell us about your group, your dates and what you want them to learn, and we will send back a first outline. You can also find us at 303, Milwaukee, 40 Promenade Road, Frazer Town, Bengaluru 560005.
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