AIU INTRODUCED CREDIT BASED SYSTEM TO DECIDE THE EQUIVALENCE OF FOREIGN DEGREE.

The world over the universities are shifting from a duration approach to credit-based approach . Keeping in view the above mentioned position of the system for education the Indian expert panel took the decision that if a degree holder from the foreign University fulfil the requirements of the minimum credits prescribed by the University Grants commission, his or her degree will be granted equivalence irrespective of its duration. Which is clear that the equivalence of a foreign degree would depend upon the number of credits that the student has acquired.The Said system will benefit bright Students who will attain the required number of credits essential for completion of a degree early without waiting for the prescribed number of years to get their degree and this decision will encourage students to pursue the degree courses from the abroad even if it is of a less duration .On the other hands our experts panel Committee has referred the decision for giving equivalence to online degree programmes from the foreign universities who fulfil the defined criterion as per the schedule of government.As such the Association of the Indian universities has decided to adopt a credit based system while granting equivalence to foreign degree courses pursued by the Indian students and the AIU has changed the equivalence policy by mandating that a foreign degree course would have to satisfy the minimum number of credits that have been set up by the University Grants commission.Earlier AIU used to grant equivalence to foreign degrees only if the duration of the course matched the duration of the same course offered by an Indian university .Due to this a one years master's degree from overseas Universities was not accepted in India . Deciding the desired number of credits for degree completion depends upon the subjects that would be taught in that course and the time required for its completion .