Bharathidasan University to offer four-year B.S. programme this year
For the first time in the country, Bharathidasan University will offer four-year B.S. (Bachelor in Science) programmes through its departments and affiliated arts and science colleges from 2010-11.
Having proposed the idea and obtained the nod of the University Grants Commission for the nomenclature: B.S., the university will also have the distinction of being the first to offer UG programmes through its departments.
The initiative conforms to the recommendation of the Yashpal Committee to optimise university resources.
The university departments will offer the B.S. courses in Computer Science, Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, and Geoscience with intake of 20 students for each.
Affiliated colleges will be permitted to offer B.S. Electronics also, in addition to the four courses, Vice-Chancellor M. Ponnavaikko said. Colleges have been permitted to admit 40 students in each course.
The university has received applications from autonomous colleges and self-financing colleges to offer the four-year programme.
The four-year duration of undergraduation is a necessity for enhancement of educational and employment opportunities in other countries like the US, the UK, and Australia, said Prof. Ponnavaikko, adding that the university has also prevailed upon the Association of Indian Universities, Anna Universities in Tamil Nadu to consider the B.S. programme as equivalent to B.E. and B.Tech programmes. This would enable the candidates of B.S. to pursue M.E. and M.Tech programmes offered by technical universities.
In Tiruchi district, the St. Joseph's College will offer B.S. in Electronics, Jamal Mohamed College in Biotechology, and Shrimati Indira Gandhi College in Computer Science.
B.S. Electronics will also be offered through the university's constituent college in Orthanad.
Applications from other colleges to start the four-year programme were under consideration, the Vice-Chancellor said.
Having proposed the idea and obtained the nod of the University Grants Commission for the nomenclature: B.S., the university will also have the distinction of being the first to offer UG programmes through its departments.
The initiative conforms to the recommendation of the Yashpal Committee to optimise university resources.
The university departments will offer the B.S. courses in Computer Science, Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, and Geoscience with intake of 20 students for each.
Affiliated colleges will be permitted to offer B.S. Electronics also, in addition to the four courses, Vice-Chancellor M. Ponnavaikko said. Colleges have been permitted to admit 40 students in each course.
The university has received applications from autonomous colleges and self-financing colleges to offer the four-year programme.
The four-year duration of undergraduation is a necessity for enhancement of educational and employment opportunities in other countries like the US, the UK, and Australia, said Prof. Ponnavaikko, adding that the university has also prevailed upon the Association of Indian Universities, Anna Universities in Tamil Nadu to consider the B.S. programme as equivalent to B.E. and B.Tech programmes. This would enable the candidates of B.S. to pursue M.E. and M.Tech programmes offered by technical universities.
In Tiruchi district, the St. Joseph's College will offer B.S. in Electronics, Jamal Mohamed College in Biotechology, and Shrimati Indira Gandhi College in Computer Science.
B.S. Electronics will also be offered through the university's constituent college in Orthanad.
Applications from other colleges to start the four-year programme were under consideration, the Vice-Chancellor said.
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