• Four-year duration: The programme extends the traditional three-year undergraduate degree to four years, allowing for a more comprehensive learning experience.
• Multiple exit options: Students can exit with a bachelor’s degree after three years or an honours/ research degree after four years.
• Flexible curriculum: The curriculum is designed to be interdisciplinary, allowing students to explore a range of subjects beyond their core area of study.
• Skill development: in addition to academic coursework, FYUGP emphasizes the development of practical skills and hands-on learning through internships, project- based work, and community engagement.
• The Four-Year Degree is compatible with the international standards and thus provides opportunities to students to pursue their higher studies outside the country without losing a year. The new system also provides the facility of transfer in-between the course duration to other colleges/ universities or even interstate transfer is possible.
• Those who have completed a four-year honours UG need to study only one year for the Post graduate programme in their subject and can appear for the NET exam.
• Students with a 75% mark (or cumulative CGPA 7.5) in the first six semesters only are eligible to continue for the Honours with Research in the fourth year. (5% mark or 0.5 in CGPA will be exempted for reservation category students). Those students completing Honours with Research can pursue research in their specialised subject.
• There is provision to complete the degree in two and a half years and degree with honours in three and a half years.

The implementation of FYUGP is expected to enhance the quality of higher education in India, fostering critical thinking, creativity, and adaptability among the undergraduate students.

Choice Based Credit Semester System (CBCSS) for Under Graduate Curriculum

A) Programme Structure

Students are admitted to undergraduate programmes. The duration of an undergraduate programme will be 6 semesters in a period of 3 academic years. The odd semester will be from June to October and even semester from November to March. Each semester will have a minimum of 90 working days inclusive of all examinations.

Each programme has the following courses.

• 1. Common Courses
• 2. Core Courses
• 3. Complementary Courses
• 4. Open Courses
• 5. Elective Courses

Every student has to undergo 10 common courses. Core courses are the major (Core) subject of the degree programme chosen by the student. Core courses are offered by the parent department. The numbers of core courses vary from 10 to 18 including a project work. Complementary courses cover the one or two disciplines that are related to the core subject and are distributed in the first four semesters. There will be one open course in core subjects in the fifth semester. Open course will be open to all students of the institution except for the students of parent department. The student can opt one subject offered by any other department of the institution. Each department can decide the open courses from a pool of three courses offered by the University.

Each department will also select one course as Elective from the courses offered by the Board of Studies of the particular discipline.

B) Exams

There will be University examinations at the end of each semester conducted by the University and two internal examinations conducted by the college. Mark scored by the student in the internal examinations will be one of the criteria for continuous assessment. Question paper may contain short answer, paragraph and essay type questions similar to University question paper pattern. Project examination will be conducted at the end of final semester.