Overview
- Zanzibar President Hussein Ali Mwinyi served as chief guest at IIT Madras's 63rd convocation, delivering the address and presenting medals and prizes to graduates and researchers.
- IIT Madras framed Mwinyi's visit as a milestone for its Zanzibar campus, using the convocation to mark the campus's two‑year anniversary and to unveil the campus layout.
- The Zanzibar campus, established in 2023 as IIT Madras's first international campus, offers undergraduate and postgraduate programs in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.
- IIT Madras reported broad participation at the convocation with 3,518 degrees awarded to 3,106 graduates, while the Zanzibar campus hosts about 130 students drawn from Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zambia and India.
- Officials and institute leaders called the visit a boost to India–Africa educational cooperation and signalled the campus's role as an emerging regional hub for STEM training and research.