According to reports, over 1.55 lakh students are touted to appear for the final-year semester examinations of arts, commerce and science undergraduate programmes of the University of Mumbai (MU) of the academic year 2020-21 starting from May 6 via online mode.
Moreover, the online examinations will run till May 21. More than 1.55 lakh students from more than 450 colleges will appear for the examinations. The university has decided to conduct the examination in the month of May in view of the pandemic and the colleges have planned the examination from May 6-21 as per their schedule.
In addition, reports indicate that of the 1.55 lakh students appearing for examinations of MU, the highest number of students, around 68,101, are from the Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) programme whereas 16,501 students are from the Bachelor of Management Studies (BMS), 14,592 are from Arts (BA), 10,770 from Science (BSc), 10,251 from BCom Account and Finance, 9,720 from Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (BSc.IT), 5,746 from Banking and Insurance (BBI) and 5,191 are from Mass Media (BMM).
Furthermore, the university has formed a group of colleges for conducting the examinations and one college in each cluster has been given the responsibility as the principal college. For this, 94 important colleges have been selected. Meanwhile, this is the third time MU is conducting examinations online. Last year, the varsity conducted final year summer semester exams of 2019-20 batch in October 2020 via online mode due to the outbreak of the coronavirus in India, followed by the winter semester exams of 2020-21 batch in December 2020.
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