Chennai: University of Madras would offer five-year integrated post graduate courses from this academic year. These courses are designed for the students who have completed their plus two level of Education. Grooming students to select a career and pursue research after their post- graduate studies is the main purposes of introducing such programs.
The newly introduced intergraded courses are MA in Anthropology, Post-Modern Development Administration, French and M Sc in Life Sciences. S Ramachandran, Vice-Chancellor of University of Madras, said that students opting for these programs would be awarded with a post-graduate degree, at the completion of the course.
Moreover, the students are provided with an exit option at the end every year for MA courses and at the end of third year and fifth year for the M Sc course. Students who wish to exit after first year would get a certificate, second year would get a diploma certificate, third year would get a degree certificate, fourth year would get degree and post-graduate diploma.
Moreover, the students are provided with an exit option at the end every year for MA courses and at the end of third year and fifth year for the M Sc course. Students who wish to exit after first year would get a certificate, second year would get a diploma certificate, third year would get a degree certificate, fourth year would get degree and post-graduate diploma.
Presently, there would be only 20 seats available for each course. In near future, the varsity would add more seats depending on the response. Application forms are available and the last date for submitting the filled-in forms is June 5. The varsity would soon introduce new regular post- graduate courses, M Sc in Ocean Studies and M Sc in Environment Sciences.
