City colleges fear that the delay in the admissions to Bachelor in Management Studies (BMS) and other professional courses may lead to a huge chunk of seats in the Commerce stream going vacant.
The University of Mumbai, on Saturday announced the time-table for admissions to professional courses including the BMS, beginning from June 28. Colleges feel that the gap of 10 days between the admissions to conventional courses like Arts, Commerce and Science and professional courses may lead to students juggling to procure seats for more than one course.
“Delay in the admissions to professional courses would have an adverse impact on the admissions to the Commerce stream. A majority of students will initially secure a seat in the Commerce stream. As the admissions to the BMS course begin, they will withdraw their admissions,” said SM Pednekar, principal of Ramnivas Ruia College, adding, “The burden on colleges is going to be increased as we will find it difficult to fill up the vacant seats in the Commerce stream.”
Meanwhile, a majority of the city colleges have supported the earlier admission process, whereby admissions to the conventional courses and professional courses would commence simultaneously leaving no space for confusion among the student fraternity. This year there are 12,000 seats for the BMS course, in 50-odd colleges in the city.
Colleges also prefer the earlier method of admissions to the BMS course through the common entrance test. R Bagadia, chief co-ordinator for BMS at the SIES group of colleges, said, “The University’s decision to scrap the entrance test and to conduct admissions on the basis of standard XII marks has seen students queuing up to secure admission to the BMS course.
This year, an individual branch of SIES Colleges has so far received over 1,000 applications for the 120 seats available in each college. Last year, we received 600 applications for the course.”
“We are also expecting the applications to shoot up, with most of the students withdrawing their admissions from the Commerce stream. The delay in the admissions will further lead to delay in the commencement of the academic session, which would have an adverse effect on the semester pattern system being followed by these professional courses,” added Bagadia.
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The University of Mumbai, on Saturday announced the time-table for admissions to professional courses including the BMS, beginning from June 28. Colleges feel that the gap of 10 days between the admissions to conventional courses like Arts, Commerce and Science and professional courses may lead to students juggling to procure seats for more than one course.
“Delay in the admissions to professional courses would have an adverse impact on the admissions to the Commerce stream. A majority of students will initially secure a seat in the Commerce stream. As the admissions to the BMS course begin, they will withdraw their admissions,” said SM Pednekar, principal of Ramnivas Ruia College, adding, “The burden on colleges is going to be increased as we will find it difficult to fill up the vacant seats in the Commerce stream.”
Meanwhile, a majority of the city colleges have supported the earlier admission process, whereby admissions to the conventional courses and professional courses would commence simultaneously leaving no space for confusion among the student fraternity. This year there are 12,000 seats for the BMS course, in 50-odd colleges in the city.
Colleges also prefer the earlier method of admissions to the BMS course through the common entrance test. R Bagadia, chief co-ordinator for BMS at the SIES group of colleges, said, “The University’s decision to scrap the entrance test and to conduct admissions on the basis of standard XII marks has seen students queuing up to secure admission to the BMS course.
This year, an individual branch of SIES Colleges has so far received over 1,000 applications for the 120 seats available in each college. Last year, we received 600 applications for the course.”
“We are also expecting the applications to shoot up, with most of the students withdrawing their admissions from the Commerce stream. The delay in the admissions will further lead to delay in the commencement of the academic session, which would have an adverse effect on the semester pattern system being followed by these professional courses,” added Bagadia.
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