AICTE prohibits universities from offering PGDM, MBA courses simultaneously

The All India Council for Technical Education in a circular has stated that the Postgraduate Diploma in Management programme and the Masters of Business Administration course cannot be conducted in the same institution.  The AICTE in the statement released has mentioned that none of the government or private universities will be allowed to offer both PGDM and MBA programmes simultaneously. The AICTE has stated that institutions will have to choose between the former or latter.

The AICTE in circular released for the heads of the different educational institutions has stated that the affiliated institutions have the option of either converting all the PGDM programmes unto corresponding MBA courses with the university affiliations or convert the MBA programmes to PGDM courses and run under a separate standalone institute.

In the circular, it has been mentioned that the AICIE initiated PGDM programs must be run by standalone institutions which were neither universities nor affiliated to any of the universities on the lines similar to IIM’s.

A senior AICTE official while speaking to the media regarding this said that over a period of time, deemed to be universities have added the PGDM courses under the banner of ‘Management Programmes’ in contravention of the norms and according to the AICTE Regulations 2020, conducting the PGDM and MBA courses in the same institution is not permissible.

In the circular released by the AICTE has also been requested that the Central/State/Private Universities/ Institutions Deemed to be Universities which run PGDM programmes along with MBA under the title of Management Programmes to convert the PGDM courses to MBA completely and follow the norms of the AICTE.

As per the regulations of the AICTE, the institutions affiliated to the universities have the option of either converting all the PGDM courses into corresponding MBA programmes with the university affiliation or the other way round and run those under a separate standalone institute.

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