Two-degree choice under new UGC guidelines gets thumbs-up from experts

New UGC guidelines will help fast-track National Education Policy in higher education, they say

The recent University Grants Commission (UGC) guidelines allowing college students to opt for two degrees simultaneously will speed up implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) at the higher education level, according to institutes and experts.

The UGC’s new guidelines will allow students to attend two concurrent full-time degree programmes with physical classes. In 2020, the apex body for universities had approved a similar proposal, but one of the two degrees had to be pursued online.

Applicable for diploma, undergraduate as well as postgraduate programmes, the new guidelines give students the choice of completing either two offline degree programmes or a mix