Located in the Amritapuri Campus, Kerala, the Amrita School of Biotechnology which was founded in September 2004, with Amma's blessings, has already established its presence as a preferred institution of higher learning and research, with national and international collaborations in the field of Biological Sciences.
The Department of Science & Technology, under its Mission Reach program, selected The School, at a national level as a “Centre Of Relevance and Excellence” CORE in Biomedical Technology.
All Amrita Institutions follow a credit based system, which makes educational programmes easy to understand and compare, both nationally and internationally. It facilitates mobility, academic flexibility and universality and helps universities to organize as well as recognize their study programmes quickly.
The School follows a credit-based system under a semester pattern with two semesters in an academic year. Students securing the specified minimum number of credits will be academically eligible to receive the appropriate degree, subject to fulfilling other requirements specified by the Academic Council from time to time. At present, the minimum number of credits necessary to qualify for the B.Sc.(Biotechnology / Microbiology) and M.Sc. (Biotechnology / Bioinformatics) degrees is 94 & 64 credits respectively.
The academic year of the School begins on the first working day of August, and ends on the last working day of July. |
