Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (NR/MB)

Mangalore, Jul 14: From this academic year onwards four new post graduation courses with unlimited job opportunities will be introduced by the Mangalore University.

According to university registrar K. Sundar Naik with the state government cancelling the Common Entrance Test (CET) for 11 postgraduate courses, all those who are keen on taking up these courses will have to submit fresh applications in the prescribed format of Mangalore University on or before July 25.

In a press release issued here on Friday, Naik said the 11 courses were history, political science, economics, biotechnology, biochemistry, microbiology, physics, chemistry, commerce, education (M.Ed.) and social work (MSW).

Naik further stated that the registrar of the University of Mysore B.J. Hosmath to whom the task was given by the government to conduct the CET, had written to Mangalore University that the principal secretary, higher education, had intimated to him that the proposed CET had been cancelled.

The modalities of returning the fees collected from the students for the CET would have to be worked out in consultation with the government, Hosmath had stated. 

Naik also said that further instruction in this regard would be communicated to the university after the University of Mysore received directions from the state government.