Bharathiar University makes Diploma Course Compulsory

Coimbatore: All undergraduate and postgraduate students of Bharathiar University will have to compulsorily study a diploma course from this academic year, Vice-Chancellor G. Thiruvasagam told a press conference here on Wednesday.

In order to facilitate this, 23 new courses would be added to the existing 17 diploma courses for undergraduate studies and 22 new ones would be added to the existing 17 diploma courses for postgraduate studies.

He said this had been done in consultation with all the types of colleges. And in order to help these institutions, even the affiliation fees for these courses would be halved. "We were inspired by what the President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, said regarding the necessity for introduction of diploma courses in universities."

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