LESS SOUND, MORE SUBSTANCE – SASTRA CBCS Choice Based Credit System

“ SASTRA CBCS – LESS SOUND, MORE SUBSTANCE”
The Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)

The Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) for the students in the B.Tech. programme has been in vogue at SASTRA University from the academic year 2008-09. This system gives students the opportunity to select from a portfolio of courses which are designated under three different heads. Every student mandatorily has to register for the core courses (60%) and the remaining courses are offered as department electives (30%) and open electives (10%). The department electives provide choice to the students to pursue on specific areas of interest in the chosen engineering discipline. The open electives provide the interdisciplinary flavour with a view to provide an overall perspective to engineering study. Open elective course range from management courses like Finance for Engineers, Marketing Research to unique courses like Vedic Mathematics, Entrepreneurship, etc. The students also have the opportunity to finish their B.Tech course work in 3.5 years through an accelerated course registration system (ACRS) resulting in the entire 8th semester for meaningful internship in premier research labs, universities and companies in both India and abroad. This unique opportunity has resulted in SASTRA being able to send the maximum number of students under the Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS) fellowships for the last two consecutive years. The CBCS is a procedure followed by leading Universities worldwide and hence not a trade-mark concept. New names and TMs add more sound but the substance remains unaltered. SASTRA believes in less sound and more substance.