On July 29, the government informed the parliament that in order to curb the academic losses that took place during the COVID-19 pandemic, 42 new universities (online mode) were allowed to offer various programmes.
Three more universities have received approval from the University Grants Commission (UGC) to offer full-fledged online degree programmes in addition to the 49 universities approved so far. The universities that have been added to the updated list are Vignan’s Foundation for Science, Technology and Research, Andhra Pradesh; Lovely Professional University, Punjab and Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Higher Education, Tamil Nadu. BA in Business Administration in various specialisation and Masters in Computer Application, Commerce, Science, Arts etc. are some of the online programmes offered by these newly approved universities.
According to the announcement made by UGC, the July academic session will commence from November 2021 and the deadline for admission will be on December 15 under exceptional circumstances. These programmes can be offered by the approved universities as long as they comply with the NAAC or NIRF ranking requirements as per UGC regulations, and if not, they can discontinue the programmes and inform the UGC accordingly, as per the notification released by UGC.
On July 29, the government informed the parliament that in order to curb the academic losses that took place during the COVID-19 pandemic, 42 new universities (online mode) were allowed to offer various programmes.
Seven more institutions received approval to offer online degree programmes in addition to 42 universities by UGC on October 28. Taking the total number of institutions approved by UGC to offer these programmes to 52. In the last list updated by the Commission, Jamia Millia Islamia, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala had increased the number of online courses.
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