Three city autonomous colleges will offer five new self-financing undergraduate programmes in the new academic year.
The autonomous status gives the managements the academic freedom to select the courses, draft the curriculum and get it approved by the university concerned.
The managements of the autonomous colleges here are ready with the admission notification for 2015-16. It will be released a day or two after the publication of the results of the Plus Two examination conducted by the Department of Higher Secondary Education.
“We are offering two new undergraduate programmes that include BBA (Bachelor of Business Administration) and BCA (Bachelor of Computer Applications) with specialisation in Mobile Applications. The postgraduate self-financing courses are M.A in Sociology and M.Sc in Environmental Science,” said Fr. Prashant Palakkapillil, principal of Sacred Heart College, Thevara. The college will also offer M.Phil programmes in Physics, Commerce and Economics.
Sr. Vinitha, director of St. Teresa’s College, said the two self-financing undergraduate courses to be offered at the college were Bachelor of Management Studies and BCA with specialisation in Cloud Technology. “The new postgraduate courses in the self-financing mode are Zoology and Travel and Tourism. We will also offer a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Analysis,” she said.
Joseph I. Injodey, executive director of Rajagiri College of Social Sciences in Kalamassery, said the institution would offer a conventional B. Com course in the new academic year under the self-financing mode. “We are also offering an M.Phil programme in Social Work from this year,” he said.
Both Sacred Heart and St. Teresa’s will adopt the online mode for admission to various courses. Rajagiri will retain the traditional pattern of distributing the prospectus and application form from the college itself.
The managements re-affirmed that the admission would be strictly based on the norms prescribed by the Mahatma Gandhi University. The rank list would be published on the college website with the index marks won by the applicants short-listed for each course.
The college representatives said they had no other option but to offer the new courses under the self-financing mode, as the government was yet to sanction new aided programmes. “We will apply for aided courses when the authorities sanction it,” they said.
