The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has granted approval to the managements of 18 institutions to offer Masters in Business Administration from the new academic year (2009-10). In addition, it has sanctioned three institutions which will offer Masters in Computer Applications (MCA) and two pharmacy colleges.

“The self-financing MBA colleges will come up in Coimbatore, Madurai, Trichy, Salem, Nagapattinam, Namakkal, Erode, Thanjavur, Villupuram, Perambalur and Pudukkottai. The letter of intents for establishing these institutions were issued over the past two months,” a source in the AICTE said.

Consequently, the number of standalone management colleges in the state will go up to 34. In addition to these, 161 self-financing engineering and arts and science colleges in Tamil Nadu offer the MBA programme. While no government college offers MBA, a lone government-aided institution has 180 seats in its MBA course.

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