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Five foreign universities announce campus in India, admissions likely by 2026

Which five foreign universities have announced campus in India?

June 19, 2025 5:24 pm

The UGC has granted Letters of Intent to top international universities, including University of York and Illinois Institute of Technology, to establish campuses in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai. The new campuses are expected to begin admissions by December 2026.

Vineet Joshi has been given the additional charge of UGC Chairperson

Vineet Joshi gets additional charge of UGC; an IIT-Kanpur, IIFT alumnus

April 13, 2025 9:30 am

Vineet Joshi has been given additional charge of the post following the retirement of the previous UGC Chairman, Prof Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar, who stepped down on April 7

CUET for UG, PG admissions to NEP 2020 reforms: UGC Chairman Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar retires

UGC Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar retires: CUET UG, PG to NEP 2020 reforms; here's some key contributions

April 11, 2025 6:15 pm

During his tenure, the UGC introduced a new set of regulations aimed at simplifying the process of recognizing and granting equivalence to academic qualifications earned from foreign institutions.

CUET UG to be fully online, students can choose any subject: UGC chief

December 12, 2024 10:02 am

The UGC also announced that the number of subjects will be reduced from 63 to 37 and admissions for programmes in dropped subjects will be based on the General Aptitude Test (GAT) scores.

CUET UG, PG 2025 Revised Guidelines: Last year, CUET UG was conducted in three shifts on each exam day

CUET UG, PG 2025: No hybrid, reduced subjects, 60 minutes exam & more

December 11, 2024 11:39 am

CUET UG, PG 2025 Revised Guidelines: The students will be able to appear for CUET UG in a maximum of five subjects as against six previously. However, flexibility in subjects has been introduced from this year.

UGC issues draft guidelines for biannual admissions, multiple entry-exit, flexibility of degrees and more

UGC drafts guidelines for biannual admissions, multiple entry-exit, flexibility of degrees and more

December 06, 2024 9:26 am

As per new guidelines, irrespective of the disciplines taken by a student in class 12 or in UG, a student is eligible for admission in any discipline of UG programme or PG programme if the student qualifies the national level or university level entrance examination in the discipline of UG/PG programme.

UGC announces new enrolment process for admission to ODL, online programmes.

UGC introduces new enrollment process for admission to ODL, online programmes

August 15, 2024 8:26 am

As part of the new enrollment process, students enrolling in ODL and online programmes will have to first register on the UGC’s Distance Education Bureau (UGC-DEB) web portals – deb.ugc.ac.in and deb.ugc.ac.in/StudentDebId with their Academic Bank of Credit (ABC)-ID and generate a unique DEB-ID.

The UGC’s decision now leaves it to the institutions to decide if they want to offer admissions in both cycles or just one, and this will depend on their infrastructure and faculty

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CUET 2022-23, CUET 2022 registration process

CUET 2022 registration begins today: Websites to check

April 07, 2022 12:19 am

The registration process for CUET, which started on April 6, will continue till May 6, 2022. The exam is scheduled to take place in July, but the final date has not been announced yet.