Patna: All state universities in Bihar will start 4-year undergraduate degree courses under the choice-based credit system from the coming academic session this year. This has been confirmed in a statement issued by the Raj Bhavan. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by Governor (who is also the Chancellor of state universities) Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar.

Presently, most of the colleges in the state are running 3-year degree courses. This decision has been taken after the recommendation of the National Education Policy-2020 in the meeting held in the presence of almost all the vice chancellors of the state's universities and senior officers of the education department until late Thursday evening. Under the CBCS and semester system, 4-year undergraduate degree courses will be started from the next academic session (2023–27). In the first year of the implementation of CBSE and the semester system, universities will start their own admission process.

The Raj Bhavan statement said that, starting with the next academic session, there will be a centralised admissions process and all universities will follow the same. A committee of experts will also be constituted to decide the syllabus for the first year of the new system. CBCS allows students to choose inter-disciplinary and intra-disciplinary courses and skill-oriented papers from other disciplines as well, according to their learning needs, interests, and aptitude. The University Grants Commission (UGC) has prepared the course structure for the 4-year undergraduate programme, and some universities, including Delhi University, have introduced it.

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