HPTU to start MTech in two colleges
Our Correspondent
Hamirpur, April 30
The Himachal Pradesh Technical University (HPTU) will start MTech courses in two of its colleges from the next academic session. This was decided in the meeting of the academic council held here today virtually.
Prof SP Bansal, Vice-Chancellor, said the courses would be started at the Mahatma Gandhi Engineering College Jeori in Shimla, and the Hydro Engineering College, Bandla in Bilaspur.
He said the HPTU had also offered MSc in biotechnology and five postgraduate diploma courses to private engineering colleges affiliated to the university, if they furnished statutory infrastructure requirements.
He said new diploma courses offered included diploma in performing arts, diploma in machine learning and artificial intelligence, diploma in big data, diploma in Internet of things and diploma in forensic science.