Hyderabad, September 24: Students taking up M.Tech. and M.Pharm. courses in private, unaided colleges will have to pay marginally more from this year.
Their tuition fee has been hiked from Rs 55,000 to Rs 57,000 per year for students taking the convener quota (A category).
For seats in the management quota (B category), the fee has been hiked from Rs 1.1 lakh to Rs 1.25 lakh.
Similarly, tuition fee for M.Pharmacy will be Rs 1.1 lakh for category A seats and Rs 2.25 lakh for B category. The graduate-level D.Pharma course will cost Rs 68,000 for category A seats and Rs 1.55 lakh for category B seats.
The new fee structure will remain in force for three years.
The government approved the recommendations of the Admissions and Fee Regulatory Committee (AFRC) submitted recently and issued orders here on Thursday to this effect.
The government has also permitted colleges to offer a category of seats to NRIs and foreign nationals.
These are supernumerary seats not exceeding 15 per cent of the total seats.
This is subject to approval by the All-India Council for Technical Education. Children of NRIs, foreign nationals and workers in Gulf countries can be admitted in this category.
The fee for these will be 6,000 US dollars for post-graduate engineering, architecture and planning courses and for graduate-level D Pharma (post-bachelor) course. The fee for admission into M.Pharmacy will be 7,000 US dollars per annum.
The admission or registration fee has been fixed at Rs 2,000, while Rs 1,500 can be collected towards common services rendered by the university and another Rs 500 towards library fee for these courses. However, the fee for special services will be Rs 3,000 for M.Tech. and M.Pharmacy. courses, and Rs 1,000 for the graduate-level Pharma D course.
Students who joined these courses in the academic years 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10 will continue to pay the existing fee.
–Agencies