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Notifications: Specification of Degrees and other matters

UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMISSION
BAHADUR SHAH ZAFAR MARG

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 21st July, 2015

SPECIFICATION OF DEGREES
No. F. 5-1/2013 (CPP-Il).—ln exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (3) of Section 22
of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 (3 of 1956) and in amendment of earlier Gazette
Notification on specification of degrees issued on July 5, 2014, the University Grants Commission
(UGC) with the approval of the Central Government hereby notifies the first amendment in the said
UGC Notification on Specification of Degrees. These amendments will come into force from the
date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

SPECIFIED DEGREES
1. The degrees specified at sr. no. 24 and 26 to 28 stand amended and shall be read as under.

Education/ Teachers Training
Specified Degrees Level Minimum Eligibility Qualification
Abbreviated Expanded Duration (Years)
24. B. Ed Bachelor of Education BACHELOR’S 2 BACHELOR’S
26. M.Ed. Master of Education MASTER’S 2 B.Ed./B.A, B.Ed./B.Sc.
B.Ed/B.El.Ed./Graduate
with D.El.Ed.
27. B.P.Ed. Bachelor of Physical Education BACHELOR’S 2 BACIIELOR’S
28. M.P.Ed. Master of Physical Education MASTER’S 2 B.P.Ed.

2. The following new degree is specified as under:
Specified Degrees Level Minimum Eligibility Qualification
Abbreviated Expanded Duration (Years)
130. M. Voc Master of MASTER’S 2 B. Voc
3. Clause (c) of the Guiding Principle of the UGC Notification on specified degrees dated 5th
July, 2014 stands amended and shall be read as under.
“If the Integrated Programme intends to offer a single degree without permission to exit and
lateral entry, the programme duration may be relaxed by not more than 25% of the sum total
of the prescribed duration of the two degrees that are being combined to make the single
integrated degree.”

JASPAL S. SANDHU
Secretary

[ADVT.-III/4/Exty./113/ 147)]

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