105 universities sign up for four-year UG programme – Times of India

New Delhi: Ahead of undergraduate admissions for the 2023-24 session, the University Grants Commission on Wednesday said that 105 universities, including 19 central universities (CUs) are going to start the Four-Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUGP).
The CUs to offer four-year programmes include Delhi University, Aligarh Muslim University, Viswa Bharti University, Assam University, Silchar, Tezpur University, Central University of Jammu, Sikkim University, National Sanskrit University, and Maulana Azad National Urdu University.
The other universities include over 40 deemed-to-be universities, 18 state private universities and 22 state universities.
The move is part of the National Education Policy (NEP), 2020, recommendations that the undergraduate degree be of either three- or four-year duration, with multiple exit options within this period, with appropriate certifications — a UG certificate after completing one year in a discipline or field including vocational and professional areas, or a UG diploma after two years of study, or a Bachelor’s degree after a three-year programme.
The four-year multidisciplinary Bachelor’s programme, however, shall be the preferred option since it allows the opportunity to experience the full range of holistic and multidisciplinary education in addition to a focus on the chosen major and minors as per the choices of the students, the policy had recommended.
Based on the NEP’s recommendations UGC formulated a new student-centric “Curriculum and Credit Framework for Undergraduate Programmes (CCFUP)” incorporating a flexible Choice-based Credit System (CBCS), multidisciplinary approach, and multiple entry and exit options.
As per the framework a credit range of 20-22 credits per semester is being designed. Semesters 1, 2 and 3 seek to develop an understanding of all major areas of learning such as natural sciences, social sciences, the humanities, mathematical and computational thinking and analysis, and vocational education.
Students will choose a disciplinary or an interdisciplinary area of learning for specialisation as major and minor in semesters 4, 5 and 6.
In semester 7 and 8, they will take up research projects along with advanced disciplinary and interdisciplinary courses. The framework specifies curriculum components of FYUGP along with the credit apportionment.
The other CUs in the list are Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri National Sanskrit University, English And Foreign Languages University, Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya, Rajiv Gandhi University and central universities of Haryana, South Bihar and Tamil Nadu.