DURATION AND REQUIREMENTS OF THE COURSE/SEMESTER

1.         (i)         The duration of the course for the Degree of Master of Science, in full residence shall not be less than four semesters and more than six semesters for whole-time students and not less than six semesters for the University employees admitted as part time students.

(ii)                 The duration of the course for the degree of Master of Science, in partial residence shall not be less than six semesters.

            (iii)        The medium of instruction and examination shall be English.

2.         (i)         There will be 2 semesters in each year, Winter and Spring, of 19 weeks each. The commencement of semesters shall be regulated by the Academic Council.

                        (Explanation: Out of 19 weeks, 16 weeks shall be actual teaching time, the rest may be utilized for admission, enrolment, conduct of examinations, preparation, declaration of results, etc.).

            (ii)         There will also be a summer session of 8 to 10 weeks each year as part of an academic year which shall be optional. Students, who desire to take up deficiency courses as approved in their course work programmes, failed courses and the courses in which they are allowed to improve "D/C" grade under the rules, may enroll during this session. It shall not count towards residential requirements.

 3.                    The subjects of study for the M.Sc. Examination are given in schedule I. This schedule may be amended from time to time. The candidate must, in addition to completing his approved Course Work, present an acceptable thesis on the basis of his approved programme of research.

4.                  A student admitted to the course shall be required to undertake the following course work:

(i)       He/she shall take not less than 45 credits(55 in case admitted to Statistics and 60 in Computer Science of course work excluding the credits required for rectifying course deficiency, if any, in at least four semesters. These credits will include 10 credits of research.)

(II)                 Nearly two-third of the credits for the course shall be in the major field of study, and one-third in the minor fields of study; on the basis of the minimum requirements; the minor fields may be one or two but shall not exceed three. If more credits are taken under major and minor courses, then the ratio of two-third and one-third shall not apply in such cases.

(Explanation: The ratio of one-third and two-third shall not apply to credits    taken over and above the minimum requirements of 35 credits. The number of minimum credits under major and minor courses will either be 24 and 11 or 23 and 12. Moreover, in the subject of Computer Science the ratio of major and minor courses will be 33 and 17 or 34 and 16 respectively.

(III)        The following courses shall be compulsory:

(a)        Statistics shall be compulsory for all students.

 (b)      Bio-chemistry shall be compulsory as deficiency course for students of all the Faculties except those of the Faculty of Agri. Economics and Rural Sociology, Division of Education and Extension, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Department of Physics & Meteorology, Faculty of Agri. Engg. & Technology (except the Department of Fibre Technology and Institute of Food Sciences &Technology).Basic Instrumentation course shall be optional as deficiency course for all faculties.

  (c)       "Software Applications-I" and "Operations Research" shall be compulsory for all the students of the Faculty of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology.

  (d)       A 4 credit course entitled `Survey and Research Report' shall be compulsory for all students (not taking thesis research) of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.

            These courses may be counted as deficiency or under major and/ or minor fields as the Supervisory Committee may decide.