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The Karnataka authorities has stopped 458 programmes for Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Science (BSc) and Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) degrees successful authorities first-grade colleges for the twelvemonth 2026-27 owing to a deficiency of enrollment, among different reasons.
In addition, intake has been reduced from a minimum of 10 to a maximum of 150 seats successful a full of 1,380 combinations.
There are a full of 440 authorities first-grade colleges nether the Collegiate Education Department successful the State, and determination is zero enrollment for a full of 1,091 undergraduate (UG) combinations successful these colleges for the twelvemonth 2025-26. In addition, single-digit students person been enrolled successful a full of 190 combinations.
The largest fig of colleges with zero enrollment and single-digit enrollment are successful tier-2, tier-3 cities and agrarian areas. In addition, enrollment has besides fallen successful galore authorities first-grade colleges successful tier-1 cities, including Bengaluru and Mysuru.
Among the UG courses successful which students person not enrolled are optional Kannada, History, Economics, Political Science, and Social Science.
No students person enrolled adjacent successful Chemistry, Computer Science, Physics, and Mathematics successful colleges located successful agrarian areas and tier-3 cities, portion respective combinations of BA successful subjects specified arsenic Kannada, History, Economics, Political, Sociology person nary takers successful galore grade colleges.
Responding to a question raised successful the caller Budget league by Legislative Council subordinate K. Vivekananda, Higher Education Minister M.C. Sudhakar said that a reappraisal is being conducted to retreat the courses with zero admissions from the past 3 years from this world year.
Proposal
In addition, the Collegiate Education Department has submitted a connection to the authorities that the request for immoderate aged and accepted courses successful authorities first-grade colleges has decreased. “If these courses are not withdrawn oregon the intake allocated for them is not reduced, affiliation fees and different fees volition person to beryllium paid to universities and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), which has go a fiscal burden. And, determination is simply a anticipation that the Cummulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) scores volition alteration during the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) assessment,” it stated.
The section besides requested that the intake should beryllium reduced for courses successful which enrollment has been debased for the past 3 years.
New courses permitted
Meanwhile, admissions are being made successful galore authorities first-grade colleges arsenic per the fixed intake and the principals of the colleges person requested support to commencement caller courses and for spot enhancement for immoderate courses successful demand.
To present courses that are successful enactment with manufacture demands and see apprenticeship successful the learning process, support was sought to commencement Apprentice Embedded Degree Programme (AEDP) skill-based courses successful BCom successful 45 colleges done Centre for Research successful Schemes and Policies (CRISP) and BOAT (Board of Apprentice Training).
The authorities has fixed support to commencement 230 caller courses related to BA, BSc and Bachelor of Social Work degrees. In 186 colleges, support has been fixed to summation the intake for existing and high-demand courses from a minimum of 5 seats to a maximum of 100 seats.
As galore arsenic 26 colleges person been fixed support to commencement caller Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) and Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA) courses, sanctioning intake from a minimum of 30 to a maximum of 100 seats.
In addition, the authorities has issued an bid allowing 63 colleges to commencement caller AEDP courses with a full seating capableness of 60.
