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As galore arsenic 22 backstage grade colleges affiliated to Mangalore University volition cease to exist.
The Academic Council of Mangalore University astatine its gathering connected Monday approved their closure.
An docket tabled astatine the gathering of the assembly said that principals of the colleges successful question had communicated to the assemblage that they had closed admissions owed to deficiency of students successful required numbers.
The 22 colleges are Aaba Women’s First Grade College, Surathkal; Anjuman First Grade College, Mangaluru; Amrutha College, Padil; Silicon College of Advance Studies, Konchady; Moegling Institute of German Language, Balmatta; Sarsa College of Arts and Science, Mangaluru; Rosario College of Management Studies, Bolar; Karavali College of Education, Mangaluru; Premakanthi College of Education, Mangaluru, and Sapientia Bethany First Grade College, Nelyadi.
The different colleges are Sri Sharada Women’s College, Sullia; Ramakunjeshwara College, Ramakunja; Hazaratha Sayad Madani Banatha Women’s College, Ullal; St. Sebastian College of Commerce, Ullal; St. Thomas College, Belthangady; Mar Ivanios College, Kadaba; Madhava Pai College, Manipal; Mookambika First Grade College, Byndoor; Varasiddhi Vinayaka First Grade College, Kundapur; B.D. Shetty College of Business Management, Udupi; Vidyanikethana First Grade College, Kaup; and Krishnabai Vasudeva Shenoy Memorial College, Katpady.
According to Ganesh Sanjeev, in-charge Registrar (Administration), the assemblage had 167 affiliated colleges, excluding 22 colleges, during the 2025-26 world year. They see 109 backstage colleges, 32 authorities colleges, 9 autonomous colleges, 13 B.Ed. Colleges and 4 constituent colleges owned and managed by the university.
Of the 167 colleges, 108 are successful Dakshina Kannada and 42 colleges successful Udupi district.
Research Centre connected Arebhashe
Vice-Chancellor P. L. Dharma, who presided implicit the meeting, said that the Governor had approved the Statute Relating to the Institution of Arebhashe Samshodhana Kendra astatine the university.
NHEQF guidelines
The assembly decided to follow the guidelines of National Higher Education Qualifications Framework (NHEQF), introduced by the University Grants Commission (UGC), for each programmes nether Arts, Science and Technology, Commerce, and Education disciplines.
The NHEQF represents a broad model that classifies qualifications based connected a acceptable of show criteria, approved nationally and comparable with planetary prime standards.
It specifies qualification types and model levels and the expected learning outcomes corresponding to these qualification types. Qualification types refers to nomenclature specified arsenic a certificate, diploma, bachelor’s degree, postgraduate diploma, master’s degree, and doctoral degree.
Each qualification is aligned to an world recognition strategy based connected the attainment of defined learning outcomes and the world workload of students who implicit the chosen programme of study.
Accordingly, the assembly decided to follow 120 credits to bachelor’s degree, 80 credits to postgraduate degree, and 40 credits to postgraduate diploma.
