The Fee Regulatory Committee (Technical) has approved revised fees for 41 self-financed technical colleges in Gujarat that had sought fee increases of more than 5%. The colleges have been allowed an average fee hike of up to 15% for degree courses and up to 30% for diploma courses.
The revised fees will remain applicable for three years. After that, colleges will be allowed to increase fees by 5% annually for the following two years.
Among the approved fee structures, Navrachana University’s School of Business and Law in Vadodara, which had proposed a ₹2 lakh fee for its MBA programme, has been allowed to charge ₹1.66 lakh. The School of Management Studies and Liberal Arts in Vadodara has been permitted to charge ₹1.28 lakh for its MBA programme.
In Surat, PP Savani University had proposed a ₹2 lakh MBA fee through its School of Liberal Arts and Management Studies. The committee has approved a fee of around ₹1.20 lakh.
For other technical courses, a self-financed pharmacy college in Navsari has been allowed to charge ₹62,000. Aditya Silver Oak College has been approved a diploma engineering fee of ₹80,000, while LJ Polytechnic, which had sought ₹70,000, has been allowed to charge ₹55,000. RK University’s MPharm programme has been fixed at ₹90,000.
The revised fees cover degree and diploma engineering, pharmacy, MBA and MCA programmes. Colleges that had sought fee increases of less than 5% were considered in an earlier round.
The latest round covers more than 80 colleges that had sought fee revisions. Fees for over 30 colleges were announced in the previous round. The revised fee structure will be applicable from the current academic year.