Dual degree courses and five years MBA courses will close
The All India Council for Technical Education has asked all the management institutions which come under its department to stop the programe which are five years integrated or dual degree courses. The HRD ministry-controlled AICTE has directed universities and independent management schools to close down such as courses as they are not approved by the University Grants Commission.
The education regulatory body also told that if students wants to quit the option if they already registered they can quit their names from the list but there will be no further options to take fresh admissions in new course.
Over 11,000 institutions run under AICTE, of which the major ones running the five-year integrated MBA programs include Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), University of Lucknow, Kurukshetra University and Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS, Pilani).
NOTE* It is important to tell you that Indian Institutes of Managament (IIMs) don’t fall under the control of AICTE.
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