Loyola awaits engineering approval

Updated on: Sunday, June 27, 2010

Loyola college, with 85 years of practical exposure operating an arts and science college in the city, which also holds an A+ rating by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council, eagerly awaits to launch of engineering college under the banner Loyola - ICAM College of Engineering and Technology (LICET).

The Jesuits of Madurai Province running the arts and science college will also manage the Loyola - ICAM College of Engineering and Technology (LICET), which plans to share space with the arts and science college on the Nungambakkam campus.

Announcing its intention to start the college in August 2010, the Loyola College website carries the message, "LICET aims at providing industrial education at an affordable cost. 30% of the seats would be for the Dalits and the poor."

Loyola College will partner with ICAM, founded in 1898 in Lille, France, to start LICET. ICAM already has eight engineering colleges in France and abroad.

With an intake of 60 students in a course, the college aims to start 10 courses, ranging from mechanical engineering to biotechnology engineering.

Indian students will be allowed to choose one of three training programmes - between a four-year BE programme in India, a four-year BE + a two-year MBA in India, and a BE in India + ME in ICAM, France.

French students will be given the option of completing a five year ME programme in France, or an ME programme, which includes a four-year period of study in ICAM and one year in India.

However, its application for approval is pending with the All India Council for Technical Education.

Loyola awaits engineering approval

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