A more student-friendly admission process is being implemented by Mangalore University this year, paving the way for students to select the course of their choice at one go.

The university will achieve this through the centralised admission and counselling system for admitting students to its postgraduate courses from the academic year 2012-13, according to Vice-Chancellor T.C. Shivashankara Murthy.

He told The Hindu that it would apply for admitting students to postgraduate courses on the Mangalagangotri campus and its two constituent colleges – the University College in the city and Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa College in Madikeri.

Registrar (Administration) K. Chinnappa Gowda said that the university had formed a centralised admission committee to address issues related to the new process.

Mr. Gowda said that all departments would have to be ready with a consolidated merit list of applicants on June 25. They would have to announce the consolidated merit list, first selection list, and the waiting list by June 28. All the lists would be uploaded to the university’s website by different departments by June 28. The committee would also have lists of all departments. Students would be admitted to all science courses on April 29 and all arts and commerce courses on April 30 through counselling. As students would come to know the status of their applications in different departments by June 28, they could weigh the options and zero in on the course of their choice. Mr. Gowda said that earlier various departments conducted admission on different dates. In the absence of uniformity, students who had applied for admission in more than one department would have to wait for days before zeroing in on a course. Consequently, it was common for students hopping from one department to another during admission time.

“Till last year, the admission process took two weeks. This year it will be completed in two days,” Mr. Gowda said.

The university would take over the process of admitting students to postgraduate courses offered by government degree colleges (or first grade colleges) from 2012-13. However, the new procedure would not be applicable to admissions to these colleges. The takeover was attributed to the university’s observation that the government degree colleges were not adhering to the rules of admission, he said.

The Vice-Chancellor said that the process of filling 50 per cent postgraduate seats (government quota) in private and government-aided private degree colleges as was being done by the university in previous years would continue this year also. About 32 private and government aided private degree colleges offered postgraduate courses. It would not apply to autonomous degree colleges.

He said that all postgraduate seats in government degree colleges would be filled by the university this year. There were about 10 government degree colleges offering postgraduate courses. Principals of these colleges were given the seat matrix at a meeting on June 1.

He said that the university would advertise and invite applications. It would scrutinise them and allot seats.

Mr. Gowda said that students would have to apply separately for the postgraduate courses in the university and its two constituent colleges and for postgraduate courses offered by private degree colleges and government colleges.

In respect of colleges, applications would have to be collected and filed in respective colleges, he said. The university would publish an advertisement to this effect this week, he added.

source: http://www.TheHindu.com / News> Cities> Mangalore / by RaviPrasad Kamila / Mangalore, June 05th, 2012