Complete Your Masters In 1 Year: Postgraduate Programmes In India To Be Reduced To A Year From 2024
Starting next year, students would be able to complete their postgraduation courses in just one year if they have opted for the four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP).?
According to the University Grants Commission (UGC), a one-year PG programme can be implemented in 2024. However, it will be only implemented for students who will complete the FYUP.?
What is four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP)??
The four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP) introduced by UGC aims to change the higher education model of 3+2 to 4+1 of Bachelors and Masters, to correspond with the American and other Western forms of educational systems, thus opening up the Indian education system.?
The new FYUP framework provides undergraduate (UG) students multiple entry, exit, and re-entry points: they may exit with a UG certificate after completing one year (two semesters), a UG diploma after two years (four semesters), a bachelor's degree after three years (six semesters), or a bachelor's degree (honours) after four years (eight semesters).?
Who can opt for the 1 year Masters course??
Students who complete the FYUP can opt for the one-year postgraduation (PG) programme.?
But students who have completed or are pursuing a three-year UG course will not be able to apply for the one-year post-graduation programme. They will have to enrol for the two-year PG programmes like before.?
Even for students who have completed their FYUP, opting for the one-year PG programme would not be mandatory, and students would also be able to enrol in two-year PG courses as before.?
What is the status of adoption of FYUP by universities??
At present FYUP is implemented in about 150 universities across the country. According to UGC, more than 300 universities are going to offer the FYUP in the next session.?
Initially, 105 universities across the country had implemented the FYUP including 19 central universities, 24 state-level universities, 44 deemed universities and 18 private universities. These include Delhi University, Aligarh Muslim University, Jammu Central University, Visva Bharati University, Rashtriya Sanskrit University and Maulana Azad National Urdu University.?
The number of these universities has increased from 105 to 150 now.??
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