Abstract

Higher Education - Technical Education - Common Entrance Tests for admission of students to Master of Business Administration (MBA) / Master of Computer Applications (MCA) courses from the academic year 2004-2005 - Orders - Issued.

Higher Education (J2) Department.

G.O. (Ms) No.47
Dated 21-02-2004.

Read :-

All India Council for Technical Education's Public Notice dated 27-10-2003.

All India Council for Technical Education's Guidelines for Common Entrance Tests for admission to MCA Programmes in the Country, dated 28-10-2003.

All India Council for Technical Education's Guidelines for Common Entrance Tests for admission to MBA/ PGDBM or equivalent Programmes in the Country during the academic year 2004-2005, dated 28-10-2003.

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Order:

The State Government has not conducted any Common Entrance Examination for admission of students to MBA/MCA Programmes till date. The seats in the Self-financing Engineering Colleges have been filled up by the respective management themselves by conducting their own entrance tests.

2. Based on the judgement of the eleven Judges Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India in W.P. (Civil) No.317/1993, dated 31-10-2002 in T.M.A. Pai Foundation and Ors. Vs State of Karnataka and Ors. and the judgement of the Supreme Court of India, dated:14-8-2003 in the matter of Islamic Academy case reported in 2003 Vol. 6 SCC 697, the All India Council for Technical Education has notified the following guidelines for common entrance tests for admission to MCA/MBA Programmes in the country :-

I. IN RESPECT OF MCA PROGRAMMES:

  1. These guidelines are applicable to all the Institutions/ Universities conducting MCA and equivalent programmes in the country.

  2. Admissions to the Master of Computer Applications (MCA or equivalent) programmes shall be made either through an All India MCA Common Entrance test (AIMCET) or through State level tests from the academic year 2004-05 onwards.

  3. AIMCET shall be for those institutions that were holding their own entrance tests earlier and admitting all their students or certain percentage of them on All India basis.

  4. States may conduct their own common entrance test(s) for admission to institutions having MCA programmes within their States or join the AIMCET. State level tests shall however be restricted to fill up seats from the students of their own states only.

  5. Management quota / seats in private unaided self financing institutions shall be filled up based on either of the common entrance tests as above or through a common entrance test conducted through an approved agency (including Association of all colleges of a particular type in the State). This option for filling up management seats shall be exercised by the institutions before issue of prospectus and intimated to the concerned Authority.

II. FOR MBA PROGRAMMES:

i) These guidelines are applicable to all the institutions / Universities conducting MBA / PGDBM (or equivalent) programmes in the country.

ii) Admissions to MBA / PGDBM (or equivalent) programmes shall be made either through All India Entrance Test(s) or through State Level Tests.

iii) All India Test(s) shall be for those institutions that were holding their own entrance tests and admitting all their students or certain percentage of them on All India basis.

iv) For the year 2004-05, admissions shall be through one of the five (5) All India Entrance Tests, namely – CAT (conducted by IIMs), JMET (conducted by Indian Institute of Technologies) MAT (conducted by AIMA), ATMA (conducted by AIMS) and XAT (conducted by XLRI). All institutions admitting students on all India basis will have to opt for one of these All India Entrance Tests.

v) Institutions that have already announced the Entrance Test or initiated action in this regard, for the academic year 2004-05, are advised to take cognizance of these Guidelines and declare their option of choosing any of five All India common Entrance Test as indicated at Clause (iv) of these Guidelines. They shall co-ordinate with the concerned agency conducting the Test to ensure that no candidates are deprived of the opportunity to sit for the Test opted by them.

vi) States may conduct their own common entrance test(s) for admission to institutions conducting MBA / PGDBM (or equivalent) programmes within their States or join the All India Test. State Level Tests shall however be restricted to fill up seats from the students of their own states only.

vii) Management quota / seats in private unaided self financing institutions shall be filled either of the common entrance tests as above or though a common entrance test conducted through an approved Agency (including Association of all colleges of a particular type in the state). This option for filling up management seats shall be exercised by the institutions before issue of prospectus and intimated to the concerned Authority.

viii) All admissions in different approved quotas shall be made strictly on the basis of inter-se merit based on common entrance tests as above. Seat allocation shall be coordinated by the state Authority in case of State level admissions and by the Central Authority in case of admissions made on All India basis.

ix) From the year 2005-06 onwards, there shall be only one Common Admission Test at the All India level for admission to MBA Programme

3. With reference to the guidelines of the All India Council for Technical Education, the Government examined the matter of conducting Common Entrance Examination for MCA/MBA Programmes for admission of students in the Universities of Tamil Nadu, Government Engineering and Government Arts & Science Colleges, Government Aided Engineering and Government Aided Arts & Science Colleges and Self-financing Engineering Colleges including stand-alone institutions from the year 2004-2005 and has decided to issue necessary orders in this regard.

4. They accordingly, direct that,

i. Common Entrance Tests be conducted by the State Government for admission of students to MCA / MBA Programmes in Government Engineering, Government Arts and Science Colleges, Government Aided Engineering, Government Aided Arts and Science Colleges and Self financing Engineering, Self financing Arts and Science Colleges including stand alone institutions.

ii. Apportionment of seats between Government and Government Aided and between Government and Self-financing colleges be made in respect of MCA/MBA Programmes as below :-

  1. 100% of the seats in Government engineering and Government Arts and Science Colleges be filled through common entrance test, conducted by the State Government applying rule of reservation of the State Government.

  2. 90% of the seats in aided courses in the Government aided non minority engineering and Government aided non minority Arts and Science Colleges be filled through common entrance test conducted by the State Government applying rule of reservation of the State Government and the remaining 10% be earmarked as management quota.

  3. 50% of the seats in the Government aided minority engineering and Government aided minority Arts & Science Colleges be filled through State common entrance test applying rule of reservation of the State Government and the remaining 50% be earmarked as management quota.

  1. 50% of the seats in unaided non-minority engineering and unaided non-minority Arts and Science colleges be filled through State common entrance test applying rule of reservation of the State Government and the remaining 50% be earmarked as management quota.

  2. 30% of the seats in the unaided minority engineering and unaided minority Arts and science colleges be filled through State Common entrance test applying rule of reservation of the State Government and the remaining 70% be earmarked as management quota.

iii. In respect of Government Engineering Colleges and in respect of Government quota in Government Aided Engineering Colleges and Government quota in self financing engineering colleges both minority and non minority, the Director of Technical Education shall admit the students who have written the State level Common Entrance Test and who have applied for admission in the Government and Government quota in Government Aided and self financing engineering colleges. In respect of Government Arts and Science Colleges and Government quota in Government Aided and self financing Arts and Science colleges, the Director of Collegiate Education shall admit the students who have written the State level Common Entrance Test and who have applied for admission in Government, Government aided Arts and Science Colleges and self financing Arts and Science colleges against Government quota. In respect of Government quota in Engineering Colleges application has to be sent to the Director of Technical Education and in respect of Government quota in Arts and Science Colleges, application has to be sent to the Director of Collegiate Education. The Director of Technical Education / Director of Collegiate Education has to make admissions, only based on the marks obtained by the students in the State level Common Entrance test and by following the rule of reservation of the State Government.

iv. The Universities situated in Tamil Nadu, Government aided Colleges in respect of management quota and self financing colleges, in respect of management quota of seats may admit the students who have applied to them for admission based on the state level Common Entrance test . It is only optional. The Universities of Tamil Nadu may also choose any of the options indicated in Clause I-(ii) in para 2 above in respect of MCA or Clause II- (ii) in para 2 above in respect of MBA/PGDBM. The self financing institutions and the aided institutions in respect of management quota of seats may choose any of the options as indicated in Clause I - (v) in para 2 above in respect of MCA and Clause II - (vii) in para 2 above in respect of MBA/PGDBM.

5. The Government further direct that,

i. Anna University be nominated as the agency of the State Government to conduct the common entrance tests;

ii. The various committees constituted for the Tamil Nadu Professional Courses Entrance Examinations (TNPCEE) be entrusted with the matters relating to the conduct of Common Entrance Tests for MCA and MBA.

iii. The agency mentioned in clause i) above be permitted to fix the application fee etc. for the Common Entrance Tests. The agency be permitted to utilise the receipts by way of entrance examination fee towards the conduct of the Common Entrance Test and remit the balance to the Government account. The facilities / equipments already created for Tamil Nadu Professional Courses Examinations (TNPCEE) / Tamil Nadu Engineering Admission (TNEA) be utilised for MBA/MCA common entrance test also.

6. The above orders will come into effect from the year 2004-2005. The Director of Technical Education, Director of Collegiate Education and Registrar, Anna University are requested to take necessary further action in the matter immediately.

( By Order of the Governor )

K. Gnanadesikan
Secretary to Government.

To

 

The Director of Technical Education, Chennai-25.

The Director of Collegiate Education, Chennai-6.

The Registrar, Anna University, Chennai-25.

The Registrars of all Universities of Tamil Nadu.

The Chairman / Chairperson of all the unaided Professional Colleges,

through The Director of Technical Education, Chennai-25. /

The Director of Collegiate Education, Chennai-6.

 

Copy to:

 

The Registrar General, Supreme Court of India, New Delhi.

The Registrar General, High Court of Madras, Chennai-104.

The Advocate General of Tamil Nadu, High Court of Madras, Chennai-104.

The Special Government Pleader (Education), High Court of Madras, Chennai-104.

The Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India, New Delhi.

The Chairman, All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi.

The Director, Southern Regional Office,

All India Council for Technical Education, Haddows Road, Nungambakkam, Chennai 600 006.

The Secretary I to Hon'ble Chief Minister, Chennai-9.

The Chief Minister's Office, Chennai-9.

The Sr. PA to Minister (Education / Finance & Food ), Chennai-9.

The PS to Chief Secretary to Government, Chennai-9.

All Departments of Secretariat, Chennai-9.

All Sections in Higher Education Department, Chennai-9.

 

// forwarded / by order //

 Section Officer.