Interns from top varsities head for Infy

Infosys Technologies' Global Internship Programme, InStep, expects to take 100 students from 70 universities across the world, this year.

The universities include Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, Wharton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, London Business School and Asia Institute of Management, Infosys said in a statement.

On Friday the programme started with 40 interns at the company's Bangalore campus. Nandan M Nilekani, CEO, president and managing director, Infosys Technologies, said, "An increasing number of students from across the world are coming to India to understand our business model."

InStep, which began with 300 applications for 14 positions 6 years ago, received over 9,000 applications for 100 positions this year. Geoffrey Gelman from Harvard Business School, said, "There has been a lot of debate in the United States on the growing role of India in the world economy. I wanted to investigate this trend."