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Regulations pertaining to Credits, Academic Programmes and Award of Degrees:

Annexure IV
Courses or Study Centres or Off Campuses and Territorial Jurisdiction of Universities
a) A Central or State Government University can conduct courses through its own departments,
its constituent colleges or through its affiliated Colleges.
b) A university established or incorporated by or under a State Act shall operate only within the
territorial jurisdiction allotted to it under its Act and in no case beyond the territory of the
state of its location.
c) The private universities and deemed universities cannot affiliated any college or institution
for conducting courses leading to award of its diplomas, degrees or other qualifications.
d) No university, whether central, state, private or deemed, can offer its programmes through
franchising arrangement with private coaching institutions even for the purpose of conducting
courses through distance mode.
e) All universities shall award only such degrees as are specified by the University Grants
Commission and published in the Official Gazette.
f) The University shall conduct their first degree and Master’s degree programmes in accordance
with the regulations notified by the Commission in this regard.
Regulating provisions
(A) University Grants Commission Regulations on Private Universities
A Private university established under a State Act shall be a unitary University. A private
university may be permitted to open off campus centres, off shore campuses and study centres
after five years of its coming into existence subject to the fulfilment of conditions as laid
down under University Grants Commission (Establishment of & Maintenance of Standards
in Private Universities) Regulations, 2003. As of now, the University Grants Commission
has not granted permission to any Private University to establish off-campus or study centre.
(B) University Grants Commission Regulations on Deemed Universities
A Deemed University shall operate only within its Headquarters or from those off campuses
or off-shore campuses which are approved by the Government of India through notification
published in the Official Gazette.
In case of distance education programmes, no institution deemed to be university, so declared
by the Government of India after 26th May, 2010 [date of publication of University Grants
Commission (Institutions Deemed to be Universities) Regulations, 2010] is allowed to
conduct courses in the distance mode.
The institutions deemed to be universities declared before 26th May, 2010 are not allowed to
conduct courses in distance mode from any of its off-campus centres or off-shore campuses
approved after 26th May, 2010.
Approval for new courses and extension of approval of the courses already run by the Deemed
to be Universities under distance mode would be granted by the University Grants Commission
subject to the fulfilment of conditions as laid down by the University Grants Commission.
The University Grants Commission has not granted approval to any deemed to be university
to establish study centres.
Any information or clarification with regard to recognition of Private Universities or Deemed
Universities and the courses offered by them may be obtained from JS (CPP-I) University
Grants Commission, Bahadurshah Zafar Marg, New Delhi.
(C) Distance Education programmes of the Central Universities and State Government
Universities
The Central or State Government Universities can conduct courses through distance mode in
accordance with the provisions of their respective Act and after the approval of the University
Grants Commission.

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