Kochi: The Mahatma Gandhi University has decided to reserve seats for students from other states and countries to provide its students an opportunity for national and international interaction on the campus. The seats will be reserved in all the schools/departments/centres as 'open all-India quota' and 'international quota.'
"The existing admission opportunities of our students will not be affected by this decision because we have earmarked an additional 40 percent of the total approved seats of each department (20 percent for students from other states and 20 percent for students from outside the country) for the said categories. Community reservation is not applicable in both these categories," said a university official.
"This is the first decision by a state university in India to reserve seats for students from other states. We hope that this will bolster national integration and secular reformative ideals. Students from outside the states will be exposed to PG and research programmes with cutting-edge facilities in diverse interdisciplinary and basic science subjects as well as in arts and humanities on the campus," said the official.
The MG University has already started inviting applications for admission to 27 different postgraduate programmes in its schools/departments/centres for the academic year 2019-20. There are 18 different interdisciplinary schools/departments, 8 inter-university centres and 10 university centres on the campus. Admissions will be conducted on the basis of a Common Admission Test (CAT) at 8 centres--Kottayam, Ernakulum, Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode, Chennai, Mumbai, New Delhi and Bangalore. Applications can be submitted online till April 15. More details are avialble on the university website (www.mgu.ac.in)
The university offers courses in nanoscience and nanotechnology, environmental sciences, social sciences, biosciences and international relations. The DST, Government of India, has ranked it eighth among the 29 universities with DST recognition under PURSE in the country. The university has successfully introduced the Choice-Based Credit and Semester System (CBCSS) and grading system in the affiliated colleges.
