The University of Hyderabad (UoH) will offer new post-graduate courses, including in Applied Geology, Sanskrit Studies, Microelectronics and VLSI design, in the next academic year.
The university will also increase its overall increase intake to 2,140 from 1,900 last year.
These new programmes were approved at the University’s 84th Academic Council meeting held on Friday.
In addition, doctoral programmes in Electronics Science & Engineering and Systems & Computational Biology and an Integrated MSc/PhD programme in Animal Biology & Biotechnology are also being introduced.
Moreover, admissions will resume this year in certain subjects, including MTech in Nanoscience and Technology, MPhil in Anthropology and Regional Studies, and PhD in Hindi and Anthropology.
The Academic Council also resolved to institute a medal for the topper among OBC students in each of the teaching programmes in the University and a SC/ST Medal in all Integrated and PG courses from 2019 onwards, according to a release.
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