67,000 awarded degrees at Delhi University
March 20th, 2010 - 10:55 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, March 20 (IANS) Delhi University, one of the largest varsities in the country, Saturday awarded degrees to 67,000 students, including a record 485 for completing their PhD.
“The total number of degrees awarded for the year 2009 were 67000. A record 485 Ph.D degrees were awarded in 71 subjects,” varsity proctor Gurpreet Singh Tuteja said.
Of these, while 61,000 got graduation degrees, 2500 got their masters’ degrees in arts, 850 in science and 300 in commerce stream. Nearly 250 got their degrees after successfully completing their masters’ in business administration.
The rest were from other courses, including from medicine. The University College of Medical Sciences and the Lady Hardinge Medical College are under the Delhi University.
University Vice Chancellor Deepak Pental and R. Chidambaram, Principal Scientific Advisor to the government of India, gave away the degrees.
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