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08/11/22 13:12 PM IST

UGC announces draft norms for deemed universities

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  • The University Grants Commission (UGC) recently released a draft revision of its guidelines for declaring higher education institutions as “deemed-to-be universities” and made “multidisciplinarity” a mandatory requirement for granting the status.
About the guidelines 
  • An Institution of Higher Education, other than universities, working at a very high standard in specific area of study, can be declared by the Central Government on the advice of the UGC as an Institution ‘Deemed-to-be-university’. Institutions that are ‘deemed-to-be-university’ enjoy academic status and privileges of a university.
  • Now institutions need not be in existence for a minimum of 20 years before they can apply for the tag of “Deemed to be Universities”.
  • The basic criteria for institutions to have this tag is having multi-disciplinary programmes and courses (more than 5); accreditation of over 3.1 CGPA by NAAC three years in a row etc.
  • Deemed-to-be-university is an accreditation granted to higher educational institutions in India by the Department of Higher Education, which imparts the academic status and privileges of a university.
Source- Hindustan Times 

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