Bangalore University PG students to pay more fees from this year

Bangalore University PG courses fees have been revised from this academic year. The steepest fee hike is about 300% for science courses.

While a general-merit MA student pursuing English, History or Hindi had to pay Rs 2,150 last year, she has to cough up Rs 5,050 this year. Fees for subjects like Kannada, Dance and Drama have shot up to Rs 6,650.

The fee hike is almost three times for subjects like Social Work, for which the fee is now Rs 8,050. Fee for science subjects has gone up from Rs 2,000 to Rs 7,050.

Students from the reserved categories might end up coughing up more than 150% in some cases. The fee for MFA has gone up from Rs 17,940 to Rs 43,050. Where as speech and hearing course will cost Rs 89,700 now.

As a major relief, the social welfare department will reimburse the fee paid by SC/ST students. The sports fee charged for undergraduate students has ballooned from Rs 44 to Rs 500.