Degree and Requirements

The University shall follow the choice-based credit system. The total credit requirement for the award of the B. Tech. degree shall be 160 credits.

Semester system and Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)

Course credits assignment

Each course has a certain number of credits assigned to it depending upon its duration in periods for a lecture, tutorial, and laboratory/clinical practice in a week. A few courses/activities are without credit (s) and are referred to as Audit Pass Courses (APC) but are mandatory to pass as partial fulfillment of the award of a degree.

Earning of Credits

For the Award of Degree of a Programme B.Tech in Biotechnology, he/she has to earn 160 credits during the 4-year duration of the programme in 8-semesters. The total credits required to be earned have been further classified under two baskets of courses: “Compulsory Courses Basket (CBB)”, and “Elective Courses Basket (ECB)”. A total of 115 credits is required to be earned under CBB and 45 credits under ECB.

Under Elective Courses Basket (ECB), there will be three types of courses:

Semester-wise courses offered by the department itself
Open/Inter-disciplinary courses offered at the Institute/University level notified from the office of Dean-Academics.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) available on Study Webs of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring Minds (SWAYAM)Platform or any other platform as recommended by UGC/AICTE and notified from the office of Dean-Academics.