The new academic year will introduce a semester system at the
postgraduate level in
Tribhuvan University (
TU). Every department of the
central campus in Kirtipur is gearing to start the admission procedure
for the new semester.
Students enrolling at the central campus in mid-February will have to
sit for an entrance exam. The respective Deans’ offices have stated that
they are all set to take the exam.
The offices also shared that curricula for the first semester is also ready.
According to the Deans’ offices, students will have to pay higher
tuition fees as the semester system will commence with examinations
conducted every six months with prompt publication of results.
The best part is that the education will now be practical and research based.
The semester system will be applicable from the new academic year for
Nepali, English, Hindi, Sanskrit, Linguistics, History, Culture,
Sociology, Political Studies, Buddhist Studies, Psychology, Fine Arts,
Rural Development, Population Studies, Journalism, Economics, Geography
and Library Science departments.
Students in the
Humanities faculty will be charged
Rs 40,000 per
semester, he added. Before the semester system was introduced, students
had to pay only
Rs 16,000 per year.
Similarly, postgraduate students of
Business Studies will have to pay
approximately
Rs 25,000 per semester. In the yearly system, the
MBS
classes were conducted at just
Rs 9,000 per year.
Aim to admit a total of
1,300 students for
12 different subjects in each
semester. Breaking down the number of students subject-wise,
300
students will be admitted in
English,
200 in
Nepali,
200 in
Mathematics
and around
100 students each in other remaining subjects.
Courtesy:
Republica
