MADURAI: Difference seem to have cropped up among senior faculty members of Madurai Kamaraj University College (MKU College) at Alagarkoil Road in Madurai during the admissions for various courses for academic year 2025-26.
Sources told ‘Lotus Times’ media here yesterday that a heated discussion took place in the Admissions Committee meeting held on June 26th 2025 as a few members had questioned the rationale of offering courses which have only single digit admission and they expressed fears that MKU College survival will become a question mark from the financial viability point of view.
“In the first meeting held on June 10th 2025, the admissions committee members had discussed about students’ strength for each course and it was agreed that 20 should be the minimum strength for UG courses and 10 for PG courses. The Heads of Department had accepted this suggestion. But, what was accepted in that meeting is not implemented in MKU College in this year’s admissions. We are afraid about the viability of our college when courses with poor admissions are continued,” a few faculty members had lamented.
Some members of MKU College Admissions Committee had pointed out that courses like B.Sc (physics), B.Sc (Maths), MTM, MA (English), M.Com etc should be closed because of only single digit admissions every year.
“It is time for our college authorities to rethink and discuss threadbare about the viability of few courses offered in afternoon session when there are no students. How to pay for the guest lecturers remuneration and staff. We must run only viable courses. Only if minimum strength is there, the courses must be offered. In some courses, there are five students but there are six teachers. So, think of the financial burden,” a senior faculty member has said.
According to college sources, the faculty members have expressed strongly that B.A.(Sociology) course must be continued in MKU College because it has good admission strength, but somehow a wrong decision was taken by the authorities this year.
