B.Sc. Graduates can join II year Engineering

Chennai: Science graduates will be able to scale up their qualifications by taking an engineering degree.

Those with a B.Sc. degree with mathematics as a subject and 60 per cent aggregate at the U.G. level can gain lateral entry into the second year or III semester of the B.E. / B.Tech course.

The All India Council for Technical Education, the body responsible for providing guidelines for student admissions to technical education, recently notified the new regulations for lateral admission to engineering programmes.

Till now, only students with a diploma in engineering could enter (laterally) the second year or the II semester of the four-year / eight-semester B.E. / B.Tech course.

The regulations were notified in January. The colleges were informed about the development and change in regulations early this month college management sources say.

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