IIT Delhi mulling both JEE Advanced, UCEED for BDes admission
Abhay Anand | January 28, 2021 | 11:37 AM IST | 2 mins read
IIT Delhi director clarified to Careers360 that admission without JEE is being considered only for the BDes programme and not for any other.
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Download NowNEW DELHI: The Bachelor in Design (BDes) programme that Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi will launch this year will likely have two modes of entry. One will be through the Joint Entrance Examination or JEE Advanced, the standard gateway exam into the IITs’ engineering programmes, and the other, through the Undergraduate Common Entrance Examination for Design, or UCEED.
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The IIT Delhi director, V Ramgopal Rao, had reportedly said at the institution’s foundation day programme that it will admit students without JEE Advanced as well. Rao clarified to Careers360 that the IIT Delhi senate was considering this only for the BDes programme and not for any other. Admission to all other courses will be conducted on the existing process.
Once only technology institutes, the IITs have been expanding in other disciplines as well. It began with the start of business schools in the 1990’s and now, many of the IITs have thriving humanities and social sciences, law, public policy, design and other departments.
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“We have a very strong and very active humanities and social sciences department. We also have a brand-new School of Public Policy. We have also created a department of design. Next year, or this year, if everything goes well, we should be admitting undergraduate students from outside the JEE Advanced examination,” Rao was quoted as saying by Livemint.
Speaking to Careers360 , Rao said that there is no such broad plan right now and that IIT Delhi is considering an additional entrance exam only for the design course. “The [admission] part is still under discussion and there is a proposal right now to have two sets of streams, having one set of students come through regular JEE Advanced and other through UCEED. But right now that decision is at the senate,” explained Rao.
The institute has been running masters in design (MDes) for nearly three decades. The BDes programme is offered by other IITs as well and admission to the course is done through UCEED.
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