MU hikes freeships: V-C

MANIPAL: Student interest is always a priority in the University. Be it in classrooms or outside it, the students are encouraged in the development of intellectual and personal skills, said Dr K Ramnarayan, vice-chancellor of Manipal University, while addressing the media on the 2011-12 academic session, for which the admission process began on Tuesday.
He told mediapersons that the university added new courses every year so that students had a variety of subjects in higher education to choose from. The university prides itself from the depth of the courses it offers and in the new academic session, the students will have 286 courses to pick and choose, he said.
Some of the new courses beginning in the new academic session are: M.Phil Regenerative Medicine, Advanced PG Diploma in Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, BA Culinary Arts, MS Dual Degree Lancaster University, UK and MS Dual Degree Staffordshire University, UK.
Freeships and scholarships are initiatives by the University to encourage talented students to take admission and continue to maintain that cutting edge for as long as they are here. The university has been raising the quantum of freeship and scholarship every year.
For the academic session 2011-12, the freeships and scholarships will be Rs 16. 29 crore. It was Rs 12.23 crore last year. A total of 197 students benefited during the 2010 admissions. The break-up was: 15 for medicine, 8 for dental, 2 for B pharm, 45 for BE and 127 BE AICTE he added.