With MU’s bridge course, direct entry for engineering graduates to MMS 2nd yr

In a recent meeting, the academic council of Mumbai University approved the bridge course prepared by the board of studies, in line with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 recommendations.

Following these recommendations which demand greater academic flexibility and a more streamlined path of higher education for students to avoid multiple entry-posts; MU approved two MMS PG programmes – one will be a single-year tenure where students completing a four-year Bachelor of Management Studies (BMS) will be eligible for admission. The other is a two-year MMS, where apart from arts graduates taking admission to the first year, students completing a the four-year BE can directly take admission to the second year, as per guidelines by the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).

“For BMS students, it will be a smooth transition with just one year PG course as they have studied basic subjects of management. But for engineering students it will be a swift shift, with no management education at graduation level and entering directly into the second year. The bridge-course is expected to fill this gap by providing foundational knowledge of management education in a compressed format to engineering graduates, which otherwise could have been covered in the first year of the PG course,” explained an official.

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