Tier 2

BRICsという名称とともに，経済発展が著しいインド。さらなる発展を期して，海外から大学などの教育機関を国内に招き入れることにしましたが，今回，それに応じたのは中堅どころの大学ばかりでした。誰が言い出したのか，そういう中堅大学は"Tier 2"と呼ばれます。うちはどうなのかな？青字もチェックのこと。（UG）
Midlevel Universities Look Into India Branches
By VIR SINGH
Published: September 12, 2010
NEW DELHI — When the Indian education minister spoke last autumn of inviting overseas education providers to set up campuses in the country, he mentioned the likes of Harvard, Yale and Oxford.
Instead, the proposal before lawmakers is more likely to attract midlevel schools — still far superior to the average Indian education provider — while excluding fly-by-night operators, according to educators who have advised the Human Resource Development Ministry, which oversees education.
“There is a high level of interest only from the Tier 2 institutions to do things in a serious manner,” said M. Anandakrishnan, chairman of one of the branches of the government-financed Indian Institute of Technology, or IIT. Some of the names in this category are the Georgia Institute of Technology, the Virginia Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and the Schulich School of Business in Toronto.
The so-called Tier 1 institutions “are simply not interested in setting up a campus here,” Mr. Anandakrishnan said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/world/asia/13iht-educLede13.html?_r=1&ref=global-home