Thursday, May 22, 2008
Minimum qualifying marks for admission have been reduced

Chennai: The Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) has liberalised admission norms for under-graduate courses offered by it.

Minimum qualifying marks for admission, which was 60 per aggregate in mathematics/botany/biology – physics – chemistry and elective has been reduced to 55 per cent from the current academic year for open competition, 50 per cent for the backward class and 45 per cent for the most backward class students. For Scheduled Caste and Tribe students a pass in qualifying examination is sufficient to get admission.


Addressing newsmen here on Wednesday, University Vice-Chancellor C.Ramasamy said from the current academic year biology in plus two was not compulsory for under-graduate agriculture courses.

Students belonging to the mathematics stream but studied biology in 10th standard would be eligible for admission.

The Vice-Chancellor said the demand for B.Sc. (Agri) and other courses offered by the University continued to be encouraging. Last year the University received 5,000 applications as against its intake of 1,000 students.

In the current year, the number of seats was reduced to 800 due to lack of hostel facilities.

This would be restored by next year as additional hostel buildings were being constructed.

He said the University had been updating the syllabi based on the current technologies and developments in agricultural science to match international standards and institutes.

From the current academic year, the University would offer dual degree programmes in partnership with Nova Scotia Agricultural College (NSAC), Canada. The dual degree would integrate NSAC’s B.Tech (Environmental Horticulture) and TNAU’s B.Sc (Agri), B.Sc (Horti) and B.Tech ( Horti).

Placement record
Placement record of the University was good as more than 60 per cent of the graduates were absorbed by the private sector and the rest opted for higher studies, the Vice Chancellor added.