| Saturday, June 14, 2008
Academic campus to operate from Jothipuram
Coimbatore: The academic campus of Anna University, Coimbatore,
will function from a rented premises at Jothipuram from the
coming academic year, Vice-Chancellor R. Radhakrishnan said
here on Friday.
The Finance Committee and Syndicate have approved a 50 per cent
reduction in the fee for all the university courses. The fee
for three-year BE/B.Tech courses would be reduced to Rs. 25,000
from Rs. 50,000 and that of the post-graduate courses to Rs.
40,000 from Rs. 50,000.
The Vice-Chancellor told reporters that they had approved the
conduct of full-time and part-time post-graduate engineering
courses, part-time BE courses, one MCA and five MBA programmes,
and research at the rented premises. Separate hostel facilities
for all the students would be provided.
The university would offer 32 courses in ME/M.Tech. In addition,
seven new courses would be offered this academic year. “Some
unique courses are Enterprise Server Data Management, Multimedia
Technology, Mainframe Technology, Wireless Technologies, Marine
Engineering, Naval Architecture and Ship Design, and Nano Technology,”
Mr. Radhakrishnan said.
The university would offer part-time course under nine branches
– civil, infrastructure, mechanical, production, computer
science, electronics, Information Technology, electrical and
electronics. Applications for the above courses would be available
from June 16.
The Vice-Chancellor said that 28 letters of intent for new self-financing
engineering colleges had been received by the university from
All India Council for Technical Education. “Approval has
been given for five institutions – one each in Coimbatore,
Erode, Salem, and two in Namakkal. The Erode and Namakkal colleges
are all women colleges,” Mr. Radhakrishnan said.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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