Cochin University of Science and Technology has reduced fees of some of its regular engineering and MSc courses by 25% and regular MTech courses by 20%.
The decision to bring down the fees was taken after the sub-committee comprising CUSAT registrar and conveners of the syndicate standing committee to study the fee hike issue held discussions with students and principals. Students had termed the sudden fee hike unfair and opposed it.
The Cusat syndicate had authorized the vice-chancellor to make changes in fee structure on the sub-committee’s suggestions.
Accordingly, the VC has announced that course fees for regular degree courses in Naval architecture and ship building, polymer science and rubber technology have been brought down to Rs 8,000 from Rs 10,000. The fees of B Tech instrumentation course has come down from Rs 12,000 to Rs 10,000. The MBA full time course fees will now be Rs 20,000 instead of Rs 25,000 and MCA course fees will be Rs 8,000 against the earlier Rs 10,000. The PG diploma course fees have been brought down from Rs 18,000 to Rs 3500. The university has also decided to do away with the special fees introduced for supplementary examinations from this year.
CUSAT has introduced scholarships for 5% of the economically backward students who joined the B Tech course this academic year in the self-finance colleges affiliated to the university.
