DU planning to merge the three popular non-technical UG professional courses offered by it

Updated on: Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Delhi University is planning to merge the three popular non-technical undergraduate professional courses offered by it, without reducing the overall intake, as part of its four-year undergraduate degree plan. So, from the 2013-14 academic session, it's not only the traditional BA, BSc and BCom programmes which will lose their identity but Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS), Bachelor of Financial Investment and Analysis (BFIA) and BA (Hons) Business Economics (BBE) will also be merged into one course. The committee, which is working on the merger, is yet to give the new programme a name.

According to university officials, a final decision on the merger plan is likely to be taken by March-end as the admission process for these courses starts earlier than the rest of the undergraduate courses i.e from April first week. Meetings in this regard, say sources, have already taken place.

Umesh Rai, director, South Campus, DU, said, "An off-shoot of the commerce stream, many components of the three courses are common. Therefore, it makes sense to make it more interdisciplinary and less specialized. After all, at the undergraduate level, one needs more integrated knowledge and less of specialization."

There are 891 seats in all in the three courses, with BBE having 554, BBS 275 and BFIA 62. It is learnt that DU will continue with the entrance exam for admissions. DU officials say the overall intake is not going to be affected by the merger.

Meanwhile, the university's nine-member expert committee — set up by
the vice-chancellor to work out an admission policy and prepare the time-table for the four-year structure — will meet on Wednesday. While the basis of admission will continue to be cutoffs, the agenda is to prepare the cutoff formula as admissions to various courses will be a different affair from that of previous years.

DU planning to merge the three popular non-technical UG professional courses offered by it

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