In a first, Maharaja's College to conduct admissions on its own

Online window to be opened soon for undergraduate and postgraduate courses

Nearly 600 seats are available for undergraduate courses at Ernakulam Maharaja’s College, the only autonomous college in the government sector in the State.

The internal wing of the autonomous Ernakulam Maharaja’s College will handle the admission process for the undergraduate and postgraduate courses offered by the institution in the new academic year.

The admission window will be opened soon to allow aspirants to register online. Principal K.N. Krishna Kumar said that it is for the first time the college will be handling the admission process on its own. Earlier, it was done by LBS Centre for Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, after the college turned autonomous in 2015.

Prof. Krishna Kumar said that the National Informatics Centre will develop and host the admission portal. Work on finalising the processes is at the final stage. “We will soon announce the admission schedule for undergraduate programmes,” he said.

Nearly 600 seats are available for undergraduate courses at the only autonomous college in the government sector in the State. The college officials pointed out that the admission process will be strictly in accordance with the rules and regulations proposed by the affiliating Mahatma Gandhi University.

General norms to be followed

The general norms, including mandatory reservation, will be followed as per the varsity norms.

A Syndicate sub-committee of the varsity had earlier observed that the autonomous colleges should strictly adhere to the guidelines issued by the university for the calculation of index marks for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. This had reflected in the variation, from college to college, in the index marks of candidates in the rank list who had applied for the same course on earlier occasions.

Autonomous colleges were found to close admission to undergraduate and postgraduate programmes well before the publication of the results of the feeder courses by the university, which ultimately led to the denial of admission to a large number of candidates.

The demand for courses offered by the autonomous Ernakulam Maharaja’s College had soared during the last academic year. Official estimates showed that the college had received 13,000 applications for nearly 600 seats under its various undergraduate programmes.

For the postgraduate programmes, it had received about 4,000 applications for nearly 300 seats in 2017-18. The demand for courses like B.Com. had shot up considerably last year. The cut-off for the programme was about 95% in the first list of admission.