Govt Arts College in Coimbatore adds 294 seats across eight streams
Coimbatore: The Govt Arts College in the city has added 294 seats across eight undergraduate programmes with the
Directorate of Collegiate Education
approving a second shift in political science, public administration, business administration, statistics, commerce with computer applications, commerce with international business, geology and information technology courses.These eight courses would now be offered in the second shift, which starts at 1.45pm and ends at 6.15pm, as well from this academic year.
The college already offers seven courses in its second shift.Of the additional seats, commerce with international business is allotted 24, statistics 30 and the remaining courses 40 seats each.College principal M R Yezhili said the proposal to introduce the second shift was submitted to the Directorate of Collegiate Education owing to the high demand and increased number of applications for these courses during the admissions last year. She said the Directorate of Collegiate Education had now approved the plan.The college offers 23 undergraduate programmes in two shifts, with the total intake of first-year students this academic year reaching 1,727, the principal said.Meanwhile, the Govt Arts and Science College for Women at Puliyakulam would introduce a second shift with three courses. College principal T Veeramani said the Directorate of Collegiate Education had approved the introduction of undergraduate courses in commerce, computer science and economics in the second shift for this academic year. "The intake across these three programmes has increased by 170 seats."The college, which previously offered five courses, has now introduced economics as the sixth course.
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