AICTE provides admission guidelines

Updated on: Monday, March 14, 2011

Notwithstanding opposition from private B-schools, AICTE today went ahead with implementing its guidelines on admission to post graduate management programmes.

The Council asked the institutes to specify their preferences on selecting candidates either through CAT, MAT or through examination conducted by state governments to competent authority of the respective state governments.
The candidates would be selected for admission to courses like PGDM, PGD executive) and PGCM programme.

AICTE had in its revised admission norms issued in December last year said admission to post graduate diploma courses and the certificate programme shall be done through common entrance test such as CAT/MAT or examinations conducted
by state governments for all institutes other than minority institutes.

The revised norms were issued in the backdrop of the regulator receiving 80,000 complaints on a range of alleged irregularities being committed by some of the institutions.

The move led to widespread resentment among the B-schools which contended the norms will "cripple" them and rob them of their autonomy.

Of the 3,800 B-schools registered with AICTE, nearly 500 run PGDM courses.

In a statement released today, AICTE, however, exempted those institutes in Maharashtra who had filed writ petitions against the AICTE notification.

It said admission to these institutes for academic session 2011-12 would be as per the interim order of February 24 passed by the Division Bench of the Bombay High Court.

Minority institutes, it said, shall conduct admissions through common entrance test as applicable to them.

AICTE provides admission guidelines

More Education news