AKTU B.Tech Minor Degree – Statement of Procedure of Minor Degree (PDF)

Purpose

1. To give opportunity to the students to acquire a domain knowledge in certain area that is NOT RELATED to his/her Major Discipline to pursue his/her additional allied academic interest in contemporary area.
2. To gain skills to pursue interdisciplinary research and increase the employability quotient.

Minor degree

1. A minor degree can be acquired by pursuing any one of the many Minor Tracks offered by the University
2. A Minor Track is a defined as an ORDERED SEQUENCE of Five (5) courses constituting 18-20 credits aimed to give a reasonable breadth and depth to the student in certain domain NOT related to the major discipline.
3. Minor Track courses will be spread from 4th to 8th semester of the B.Tech. Program.
4. Credits earned through Minor Track will be in addition to the essential Credits (>=160 Credits) to be earned for Major discipline of the regular B.Tech. Program.

Status of AICTE Approval

University may offer AICTE suggested Minor tracks or may design their own Minor Tracks. No separate approval is required from AICTE for Minor degree.

Eligibility for Registration

1. Registration to the Minor Track will be done in 4th Semester provided interested students possess a YGPA of 6.5 or above upto FIRST YEAR with all courses passed in one attempt without grace. In case of Lateral Entry, he/she would be required to have minimum CGPA of 6.5 or 65 percent marks, as the case may be, in his/her entry level qualifying degree.
2. One can opt to register for maximum ONLY ONE Track (out of all Minor Tracks and Honors Tracks) or None.

Example Minor Degree Name

B.Tech. in Civil Engineering with minor degree in Data Science

Award of B. Tech. with Minor Degree

1. One will be eligible for award of Minor Degree, if he completes all the courses of chosen Minor Track.
2. There will be no transfer of credit from Minor track to regular B.Tech degree Course of major discipline or vice-versa.
3. All the courses of Minor Track have to be completed in one attempt.
4. If a student, who has registered for Minor Track, fails in any of the course of Minor Track, his registration for Minor Track will cease to be active. Such a student will not be eligible for award of the Minor degree. However, he/she will continue to be eligible for award of his / her regular B.Tech. Degree.
5. Moreover, in such cases where one is not able to complete the Minor track, the credits earned by the students through the minor track will be recorded as Extra Credit on the mark sheet.
6. One can graduate with Minor degree only if he/she fulfills the requirement for award of the his/her regular B.Tech. degree in his/her major discipline.
7. The Minor degree must be simultaneously completed along with major degree. A student can not earn minor degree later, if he/she has already completed and earned his major degree.
8. Registration to the Minor degree will be valid only if registration to Major Discipline of Regular B. Tech. degree exists. If one drops the registration to regular B.Tech. Program or completes the regular B.Tech. Program, he/she will not be allowed to pursue his/her minor degree program.
9. CGPA of the major degree and minor degree would be calculated separately and mentioned on the Mark Sheet separately. The CGPA obtained in the major degree would be treated as CGPA of the program without including accumulated grades from Minor track. The division will be awarded based upon the performance in the regular B. Tech. program only.

Registration Fee

No additional Tuition Fee will be charged from the students registering for Minor degree. Although, only a nominal token fee (non-refundable) of Rs 100=00 per semester must be charged to confirm the active registration in each of the semester having minor course.

Record Keeping

The institute and the University shall maintain the detailed record (minor program wise as well as parent branch wise) of the students enrolled for the Minor degree.