An allied-health college, built around one profession first

Claverton College opens in 2027 at Knowledge Park III, Greater Noida, in the Delhi National Capital Region. Its first programme is BASLP: the degree that makes audiologists and speech-language pathologists.

India has about ten thousand registered audiologists and speech-language pathologists for 1.4 billion people. Around seventy institutions teach the degree, and roughly two thousand students graduate each year. A proportion of graduates emigrate, and those who stay rarely reach the smaller towns where the need is greatest. Government support for people with disabilities keeps growing, and so does the demand for these professionals.

Hearing tests, therapy sessions and family counselling are delivered in person, one clinician to one patient. U.S. News & World Report ranks speech-language pathology among the best healthcare jobs in America.

Claverton was set up to train those people properly: in small batches, with patient contact from the first year, on the Rehabilitation Council of India’s national curriculum. The degree is awarded by Dr. Shakuntala Misra National Rehabilitation University, Lucknow, a state university built around rehabilitation sciences. The college is run by the Aashirwad Foundation of India Trust. The intake is kept small to maintain a low student-to-teacher ratio.