The academic council has now decided to enroll students to BMS on the basis of their Class 12 marks from next academic year. Over 50 colleges affiliated to the university provide the course.
The academic council members said the decision was taken after a number of seats in city colleges offering the BMS course fell vacant.
It was found that the numbers of BMS seats are more as compared to the number of students enrolling for the course. Figures depict that with 15,000 total numbers of seats available for the BMS course, the number of students enrolling for the course do not exceeds more than 7,000 every year. Thus, conducting CET becomes a time-consuming and fruitless exercise, said TA Shiware, an academic council member.
Colleges feel that the decision will pave way to students from various other streams like Arts and Science to enroll for the course. They also feel that the decision to scrap the CET will help colleges fill up the seats that have been otherwise going vacant.
It will also divert their focus towards securing good marks in Class 12 which has been always ignored as against the duration allotted for preparing for the entrance test, said Shiware.
UC Mashelkar, principal of Patkar College, said: Students have been opting for several other market-driven courses like Banking, Finance and BSc bio-tech. Another reason for the downward trend lies in the fact that the students pursuing their BMS course can only opt for the MBA degree programme after seeking the BMS degree.
Students have been opting for other professional courses as against the BMS course, as there are no entrance tests for majority of the professional courses introduced by the University of Mumbai. The course has failed to rise up to the academic standards due to the universitys failure in recognising it as a separate entity, said Rajkumar Bagadia, chief co-ordinator of the BMS course at SIES College.
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