Following concerns about multiplicity and redundancy of nomenclatures in management courses, AICTE has rationalised the nomenclatures and prepared a single list for PG diploma and MBA courses, a senior council official said.
Concerned about the multiplicity and “redundancy” of nomenclature in
management courses, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has
rationalised nomenclatures and notified a list of 73 PG diploma and MBA
courses. The technical and management education regulator has also decided that
MBA or PG diploma courses in four subjects — Modern Office Management, Modern
Office Management and Secretarial Practices, Modern Office Practice and
National Management Programme — be converted into vocational courses.
Following concerns about multiplicity and redundancy of nomenclatures in
management courses, AICTE has rationalised the nomenclatures and prepared a
single list for PG diploma and MBA courses, a senior council official said.
“All AICTE approved stand-alone institutions offering PG diploma level courses
and universities offering MBA courses have been directed to go through the list
and accordingly change the nomenclature while applying online for Extension of
Approval (EOA) of the courses offered from 2020 academic session,” he added.
While management
courses called Tourism and Leisure, Tourism and Travel, Travel and Tourism
Management will all be known as MBA or PG diploma in “Travel and Tourism”,
courses in Telecom, Telecom and Information Technology, Telecom and Marketing
and Telecom Management will be offered as “Telecom Management”. Similarly,
courses in Business Entrepreneurship, Business Management, Commercial and
Computer Practice, Business Management, Business Studies, Computer Management
and Management Studies, will be known as “Business Management”.
The AICTE has also introduced new courses called Small Enterprise
Management, Social Enterprise Management, Sports Management, Strategy,
Consulting, Engineering Management, Heritage Management, Design Thinking,
Operations Management, Organisational Behaviour, Innovation Management and MBA
or PG diploma in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning.
