Akshata Sharma
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The council took a policy decision to allow Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) who offer programs in regular mode to admit students twice a year, either in Jan/Feb or July/August from this session.
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has allowed higher education institutions to admit students twice a year or biannually in regular mode from academic year 2024-25, commission's chairperson M Jagadesh Kumar said on Tuesday.
According to Kumar, the decision was taken during the UGC meeting held on May 5.
Presently, universities and colleges admit students annually in July-August every year, in regular mode. Therefore, all Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in India follow the academic session that begins in July-August and ends in May-June.
Last year, the UGC allowed students to take admission in open and distance learning (ODL) and online modes biannually in January and July during an academic year.
Kumar said that last year's decision had helped nearly half a million students join their degree programs without waiting for one full academic year.
"After the UGC permitted two cycle admissions in a year for Open and Distance Learning (ODL) and Online modes, as per the information furnished by the HEls on the UGC portal, in addition to a total of 19,73,056 students were enrolled in July 2022 and an additional 4,28,854 students joined in January 2023 in ODL and online programs," he said.
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