The fee regulatory committee (FRC) for technical colleges has announced new fee structure for degree and diploma engineering, degree and diploma pharmacy, and Master of Business Administration courses for 2023-24 to 2025-26. For the MBA course, Adani University’s Faculty of Management Sciences has been allowed to charge the highest fee — Rs 1.97 lakh — for 2023-24, Rs 2.09 lakh for 2024-25 and Rs 2.21 lakh for 2025-26.
For degree engineering courses, GH Patel College in Vallabh Vidyanagar, has been allowed to charge the highest fee — Rs 1.27 lakh — followed by Sarvajanik College in Surat at Rs 1.24 lakh. Three other colleges have been allowed to charge more than Rs 1 lakh as fees.
For the MBA course, six more institutions have been allowed to charge more than Rs 1 lakh. For diploma engineering, two colleges have been allowed to charge over Rs 50,000. LM College of Pharmacy can charge Rs 1.86 lakh for its master’s course while three pharmacy colleges offering bachelor’s courses have been allowed to collect more than Rs 1 lakh in fees.
Kamlesh Joshipura, former vice-chancellor and member of the FRC, said, “Out of the 621 colleges, 510 colleges had demanded only a 5% increase in fees. There were 101 colleges that demanded more than a 5% increase in fees and their requests were considered after looking at their expenditure and the interest of the students. These colleges had not increased their fees following requests from the FRC and state govt to refrain from doing so considering the financial issues in the aftermath of Covid.”
For degree engineering courses, GH Patel College in Vallabh Vidyanagar, has been allowed to charge the highest fee — Rs 1.27 lakh — followed by Sarvajanik College in Surat at Rs 1.24 lakh. Three other colleges have been allowed to charge more than Rs 1 lakh as fees.
For the MBA course, six more institutions have been allowed to charge more than Rs 1 lakh. For diploma engineering, two colleges have been allowed to charge over Rs 50,000. LM College of Pharmacy can charge Rs 1.86 lakh for its master’s course while three pharmacy colleges offering bachelor’s courses have been allowed to collect more than Rs 1 lakh in fees.
Kamlesh Joshipura, former vice-chancellor and member of the FRC, said that out of the 621 colleges, 510 colleges had demanded only a 5% increase in fees. There were 101 colleges that demanded more than a 5% increase in fees and their requests were considered after looking at their expenditure and the interest of the students. These colleges had not increased their fees following requests from the FRC and state govt to refrain from doing so considering the financial issues in the aftermath of Covid.
The FRC officials said that the stakeholders’ suggestions were incorporated in the standard operating procedure to decide the fee structure.
