Interesting times are round the corner for undergraduate students of Delhi University. The varsity plans to introduce a “credit transfer” system at undergraduate level when the semester system is introduced in the university from 2010-11 academic session, Vice-Chancellor Deepak Pental said on Tuesday.

Under this scheme, a DU student can “carry” forward credits in a paper to another institution that provides similar papers — the student does not need to sit for exams for the same paper in the second institution.

The university is experimenting with this system — it has already started credit transfers, with 32 students already in Joseph Fourier University, France. But Pental said the idea is to extend the pilot project to all courses, at all levels.

The 32 students in the pilot project are on an MTech dual-degree programme in Nuclear Science and Technology, in DU’s Department of Physics and Astrophysics.

“These students will do two years of their three-year programme in India,” Pental said. “We have not finalised details of the credits to be transferred but hope to do it soon.”

He said, “We could ask our management schools to send 50 per cent of their students abroad to study at renowned B-schools there.”

The vice-chancellor said the next batch would be a 16-member team to Japan.

Now, Pental said, the university is “exploring the possibility of extending the credit transfer system to undergraduate students”. He said, “The system is a lot more complex there (at undergraduate level) but we plan to have the system in place when the semester system is implemented (from next session).”

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