UGC confers autonomous status on Khalsa College

Amritsar, February 14

Khalsa College for Women (KCW), Amritsar, accredited ‘A’ grade by NAAC and affiliated to Guru Nanak Dev University, has been conferred the autonomous status by the University Grants Commission.

Announcing the same, college principal Surinder Kaur said the institute aims to sustain the highest universal standards in education and to impart world class education to its female students. She emphasised that the college would have more academic and operational autonomy.

This decision means the college would also have autonomy to frame its syllabi, introduce new courses, and implement choice based credit system and to collaborate with foreign universities. With the purpose to make its students globally employable, a range of new courses at UG and PG levels have been initiated from this session onwards.

At undergraduate level, bachelor of tourism and hotel management, BA (social sciences), BSc (artificial intelligence & data sciences), BSc (bio-technology), BSc (food technology), BSc Honours (economics) are started. At post graduate level MA (cosmetology), MSc (clinical nutrition & dietetics) have been introduced. Moreover, five-year integrated courses i.e. MCom and MA (Punjabi), diploma in gurmat sangeet, certificate course in animations and cybercrime have also become the part of the new curriculum.