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GUIDELINES ON CHANGE OF SCHOOL/DEPARTMENTS

*Applications for a change of degree option shall be approved only when there is a strong justification for it. As much as possible, students should be required to pursue to the end the course to which they have originally been admitted to.

*Permission to change to a new degree option shall be strictly subjected to there being a vacancy in the class, taking into account the approved student quota for the degree option.

*Any change of degree option within a School shall be subjected to approval of the Dean of the School and the two Heads of Department concerned.

*Any change of School shall be subjected to approval of both the Deans of the present School and of the proposed School.

*The Dean of a School shall, for good course and in consultation with the Board of the School, have the right to approve or withdraw his/her approval of a student’s application to transfer from or into the School.

*Normally, for a student to change from one School/Department to another he/she should have a minimum Cumulative Grade Point (CGPA) of 3.50. This CGPA may be waived for weak students whose cases would be considered on their own merit.

*Change of degree option shall not be permitted until the student has spent at least four semesters in the university.

*No student will be allowed to change his/her degree option more than once in the university.

*No change of degree option shall be allowed beyond six weeks of the commencement of lectures in the first semester of each section.

*The Board of studies of the proposed School concerned shall recommend the change of degree option for the student concerned for the approval of Senate.

*Final approval or rejection of student’s request to change degree option shall be formally communicated to the affected student by the Registrar.