New Delhi: The newly set up seven central universities across the nation announce to conduct combined entrance examinations from this year, for 25 courses offered by them. Professor Abdul Wahid, Vice Chancellor of Central University of Kashmir, said that the students' performance in the admission test along with their preference for a university would be considered before admitting them.
The seven universities that decided to conduct the common admission test are Universities of Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Bihar, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. In addition, the seven newly set up universities have designed in their curriculum a number of innovative courses, which will be relevant to their local areas.
The combined admission test is first of its kind. Also, the seven universities would be helping students to apply for all the universities at the same time. Presently, only the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) conduct a similar common entrance examination.
These seven universities, which were among the 16 that were created last year under the Central Act, started offering courses from last year itself. However, the remaining universities have chosen not to admit students on the basis of combined test and will have their own entrance procedures.
