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UGC approves 18 courses of Uttarakhand Open University; admission deadline extended till Oct 20

The University Grants Commission has given permission to operate 18 courses out of 75 in Uttarakhand Open University (UOU). The list was released on Wednesday by the UGC on its website. Admissions for all these courses will be done till 20th October.
The UGC had cancelled the recognition of 75 years of free university this year. Due to this reason, admission was not possible for new students. Later, the Minister of State for Higher Education Dr. Dhan Singh Rawat interacted with Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar. Eventually, the UGC has allowed remote educational institutions across the country to run conditional courses this year at the 535th meeting.

  • At first the Uttarakhand Open university had only five courses left, which has now increased to 18. This validation session will be from 2018-19 to session 2022-23. Although not all the important courses this year have been given recognition by the UGC. Bharat Singh, Registrar of the Open University, said that after getting approval from the UGC, the admissions are going on. He told that the last date for the admission process will be October 20.

First only the remaining of these courses were recognized

  • Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)
  • Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA)
  • Bachelor of Education (BEd)
  • Bachelor of Arts (BA)
  • Master of Arts (MA Education)

New courses of UOU approved by UGC

  • Master of Hotel Management (MHM)
  • Bachelor of Commerce (BCom)
  • Bachelor of Science (BSc)
  • Bachelor of Science (BSc) (Single Subject)
  • Bachelor of Hotel Management (BHM)
  • Bachelor of Special Education Learning Disabilities (BSELED)
  • Bachelor of Special Education Mental Retardation (BSEMR)
  • Bachelor of Tourism and Travel Management (BTTM)
  • Master of Business Administration (MBA)
  • Master of Computer Application (MCA)
  • Master of Tourism and Travel Management (MTT)
  • Master of Science (MSc) (Cyber ​​Security)
  • Master of Science (MSc) Information Technology (IT)
  • Master of Arts (MA) Geo Informatics (GI)
  • Master of Arts Journalism and Mass Communication (MJMC)
  • Master of Science (MSc) Geo Informatics (GI)
  • Master of Arts (MA) Sociology
  • Master of Commerce (Mcom)

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