Education and Reference Q&A
No AICTE Approval?
I am a BE Graduate.Recently, I have completed my Post Graduate Program in Management (PGPM) from Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai. (www.greatlakes.edu.in)
My college does not hold AICTE approval.
I am planning to write UPSC 2009 exam with Management as one of the paper for Mains.
My grill is what I should mention as my highest degree contained by the application form.
ie. Should I mention it as PGPM
(or) Should I mention it as BE only as the college in which I did my PGPM is not AICTE approved.
Will my PGPM own no value if my college is not AICTE approved?
Eagerly waiting for a response and thank you very much within advance for your valuable time.
Answers: You should mention your superlative degree as B.E.
Because PGPM stands for Post Graduate Program in Management. What you received on successful completion of the course is a short time ago an award stating that you have successfully completed the Post Graduate Program in Management at Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai. It is not a point certificate in any channel, and hence does not count as a degree, even if it had AICTE approval as resourcefully as AIU(which is just a private association of Indian universities and does not delight in Government-backing) recognition that it was equivalent to MBA. PGPM is not a amount.
Interestingly, even an IIM alumnus in your situation would be forced to do exactly the same item, as the Post Graduate Program in Management is not a degree, and a establishment body like the UPSC would not, in adjectives probability, recognise it as such.
Dont care about PGPM..Since you are a BE graduate,it is more than ample to appear for UPSC exam..
Write only BE.
