Early Life
Vijay Mahajan was born in Pune, India in 1954. His early education was in neighbourhood schools, but in the last four years, he was sent to the Jesuit run St Xavier's School, Jaipur, where he learnt to speak English first time at the age of 12. He did well in the final school board examination in 1970 and appeared in the All India Merit List. Though selected as a National Science Talent Scholar and admitted to the St Stephens' College, Delhi University to study Physics, under family "guidance", he joined the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1970 for a five-year bachelor's degree in technology, specialising in Electrical Engineering. He won a merit scholarship all five years at IIT and excelled in academics in his final years at the IIT. The IIT was also the place where Mahajan discovered and nurtured his love for public affairs, development and the arts and literature.
In 1979, he went to attend the post-graduate program in management (MBA) at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, from where he graduated in 1981, with a gold medal for scholastic performance. Though admitted to the Kennedy School of Government in 1981, he could not join due to inadequate financial aid. Many year later, he was selected as a Mid Career Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University in 1989.
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