Apart from offering various courses in Arts, Science, Management, Law, Education and Commerce, Lucknow University decided to launch technical courses from the next academic session, i.e., 2017-18. Usually, the new academic session at Lucknow University begins in the month of June or July.
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S.P. Singh, Vice-Chancellor of Lucknow University, revealed that a faculty of engineering would come up on the second campus of varsity. Colleges associated to LU will also get affiliation. However, the primary motive of the varsity is to design a framework for running the course. Setting up of a faculty of engineering at LU will increase the revenue of varsity as well as cater to the financial needs. He further added that engineering department with a better fee structure would help the varsity economically.
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For designing the framework of the course, the authorities of the varsity are soon going to constitute a committee which will comprise of experts in various technical fields as well as experienced professors from various engineering colleges. On the contrary, two department professors will also be invited to take part in decision-making procedure.
S.P. Singh further explained that the curriculum of the course is designed as per the standards of the industry and those that are job oriented. During the process of designing framework and curriculum of the course, certain viewpoints and suggestions from various universities will be taken into consideration. Similarly, viewpoints of fresh graduates will also be considered to have a better understanding of the current scenario.