Hereafter, Finance course to be made compulsory for all engineering students belonging to Anna University!!
No need for the engineering students to study a separate course in finance after completing their studies!!
From the coming academic year, finance education would be made mandatory for all the students studying under graduate engineering and vocation courses of Anna University and affiliated colleges.
Financial education is essential for engineering students. It would help the students to manage their money effectively during their academic years. Moreover, it would set a strong foundation to manage financial aspects when they start their own business. This was mentioned by a senior official belonging to Higher Education Department
It is known that currently engineering and technical students would have to pursue a separate course in finance after finishing their under-graduate studies. As a result, the students would have to spend a lot of time plus energy etc. To make lives easy for the engineering and technical students, it was decided to introduce a comprehensive finance course as a part of the technical curriculum.
For including the course in the last semester, the academic committee has been exploring suitable areas. The superb piece of information is that the financial course has been designed to equip the students with knowledge and skills needed to make informed finance based decisions. This would help the students to become self-sufficient.
Various topics that would be covered under the financial course are planning, banking of India, banking concepts, basic investment objectives, insurance, saving alternatives for a common investor plus stock markets, mutual funds etc. Both the financial experts as well as the industrialists would be responsible for the finance syllabus of the university.
It is brought out that once the curriculum is fixed then the duration of the proposed finance course would be decided. The under graduation certificate of the students would have the marks scored by them in the finance course. As per the industry requirements, the syllabus would change from time to time.
