AIMIT MS Software Technology students to get MSc degree

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, June 2, 2012 : The students of MS Software Technology at Aloysius Institute of Management and Information Technology (AIMIT), St. Aloysius College in 2009 will not get any MS degrees because the Mangalore University has not approved the MS course. They will instead receive MSc Software Technology certificates at a convocation ceremony, scheduled to be held on Saturday.

Thirty-seven students had joined the MS Software Technology course in 2009 and cleared it in 2011. They have written a signed letter to the college authorities, in which they stated that they joined the course with the expectation of receiving a degree certificate in MS Software Technology as advertised in the college’s prospectus and website and the media. They stated that they preferred the PG course to the MCA course because the management assured them that it is better than the MCA. They expressed their disappointment that they will be getting an MSc degree instead of the MS degree.

The students also stated that the management had reassured them that they would get an MS degree when they had first raised the issue in 2009. They also stated that MS is totally different from MSc and makes a lot of difference to one’s qualification.

A. M. Narahari, college registrar, said that he knows nothing about students’ objections to the course. He said that the marks card clearly mentions it as MSc Software Technology and no mention was made of MS Software Technology anywhere.

T. C. Shivashankar Murthy, vice-chancellor of Mangalore University, said that the university has not approved MS Software Technology for AIMIT, St. Aloysius College. However, the university had approved MSc Software Technology.