Rules for Change of Branch
Students are eligible to apply for a change of branch/Programme after completing the first two semesters and before the start of the third semester. All branch transfers can be effected only once at the beginning of the second academic year. No application for change of branch during the subsequent academic years will be entertained.
1. The Eligibility Criteria for applying for a change of branch / Programme are:
b. completion of the prescribed course credits in the first two semesters
c. no backlog at the end of the first year
d. secured a CPI of:
- At least 8 for general and OBC category students; and at least 7 for SC, ST and PD category students.
2. a.
Before beginning the allocation, additional seats are made available in each branch, limited to a maximum of 10% of its sanctioned strength
b. While students are allotted seats of general and reserved type during admission, this data is not used during branch change. Each available seat may be occupied by students of any category. For students of SC/ST/PD category, concession in eligibility criteria is given as per rule 1.
3. An eligible student's request for a shift from branch A to branch B will be considered valid if any one of the following two sets of criteria are satisfied.
Set 1
(a) the CPI of the student is at least 9
(b) there is a seat available in Branch B
Set 2 (i) There is a seat available in Branch B
(ii) The strength in branch A, from which a change is being sought, does not fall below its sanctioned strength by more than 25%
(iii) there is no student with higher CPI who is currently being denied a change of branch to “B” due to rule (ii)
Procedure
Among all valid requests, a student with the highest CPI is chosen and a shift performed. If a student with CPI x is shifted from branch A to branch B then every student with CPI x with a request for branch B will be shifted to branch B, even if their request violates (ii) above. If necessary, extra seats will be created to accommodate them. Shifts as above are performed as long as there are valid requests.
Note that even though a student may have been allotted a seat of lower preference earlier due to unavailability of a seat of higher preference, his/her request for the higher preference seat may become valid later because of availability of seats.
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