Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham will start offering five online degree programmes, as a part of its Amrita AHEAD initiative, Vice-Chancellor P. Venkat Rangan and his team of faculty said at press conference held online on Tuesday.
The deemed university would be offering BBA, BCA, MBA, MCA in artificial intelligence and MCA in cyber security, which were in alignment with the Central Government’s New Education Policy.
Faculty, who addressed the press conference, said as per the UGC guidelines the degree programmes that would be open in January and June-July were on a par with offline/regular degree programmes and made candidates eligible for higher studies as well.
The university had tied-up with industry to provide internship and placement services as well for the management programmes and leading global companies to provide online lab facilities for the computer science programmes.
The university had developed curriculum for the programmes, roped in leading national and international…