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Company Secretaryship has been growing rapidly as a separate discipline of study and practice. The field has been growing with the expansion of industry. ICSI (Institute of Company Secretaries of India) is the central organisation to offer training and education of Company Secretaries of India. Though some of the mainstream universities offering courses in Corporate Secretaryship, full fledged and focused training is available only with ICSI. The programme structure and delivery mechanisms have been highly streamlined by ICSI. There have been continuous changes in the curriculum of the Company Secretaryship course in accordance with the industry requirements.

Course Structure: The candidate who wants to acquire membership of ICSI has to overcome three stages of examinations. These are Foundation, Intermediate, and Final Examinations. All these examinations are conducted by ICSI only. The regional chapters of ICSI located across the country offer oral coaching and postal study material at minimum cost. All the registered candidates have to choose either oral coaching or postal coaching.

Eligibility and Registration Process: Interested candidates have register with ICSI as a student of the Institute. The registration process is open throughout the year. This is the first step. Candidates should have 17 years of age and must have either passed the Foundation Course examination or should be eligible for exemption from it. Candidates with following qualifications will be exempted from the Foundation Course:

1) Bachelor or Master’s Degree in Corporate Secretaryship or Commerce
2) Candidates passed ICWAI final exam or ICAI final.
3) Any Degree or a Master’s Degree holder in any discipline other than Fine Arts.

Foundation course is open to 10+2 passed candidates. The qualifying marks for each paper in ICSI examinations is 40 percent. Candidates have to appear for the examinations after postal or oral coaching. ICSI Regional Councils are located at New Delhi, Calcutta, Chennai, and Mumbai and Chapters are available in all state head quarters and other main cities. Foundation course consist of four papers. These are Business Communication, Business Law and Management, Principles of Accountancy and Economics and Statistics.

Those completed the foundation course will be allowed to Intermediate stage. Candidates with certain prescribed qualifications will be exempted from Intermediate and Final examinations. Inter and Final Examinations will be held twice a year in the months of June and December. Results of ICSI examinations are usually declared on 25th August and 25th of February of the concerned year. The ICSI has been changing syllabus regularly to meet the industry requirements. Candidates can obtain complete details of ICSI course and syllabus at www.icsi.edu .

University Courses in Company Secretaryship: There are some universities offering relevant courses in the discipline of Company Secretaryship. University of Madras, Madurai Kamraj University (Tiruchirapalli), Alagappa University, Bharatidasan University, Mother Teresa Women’s University and Pondicherry University are offering courses leading to the award of Bachelor of Corporate Secretaryship (BCS) or BA (Corporate Secretaryship). Some colleges are also offering BCS through distance education mode. Address of ICSE: Institute of Company Secretaries of India, ICSI House, 22 Institutional Area, Lodi Road, New Delhi 110003.

AIEEE is the biggest academic entrance examination in the country for admission into Engineering and Architecture courses in NITs, IIITs, several Deemed Universities and Regular Universities. Though there are about 30000 engineering and architecture seats available through AIEEE, students always strive to join in a good institute for better career opportunities. Apart from National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and Central and State Governments Funded Institutes, there are several fairly reputed deemed universities and mainstream universities offering qualitative engineering programmes. Following are some of the best and available self financed deemed universities in India which admit students based on AIEEE rankings.

Though the fee appears at the higher end, most of the institutions offer or assist in getting hassle free education loans by the banks. The number of total offered seats in various institutions may increase or decrease at the time of counseling. The fee mentioned for each institute may be an indicative tuition fee per semester / year. The actual figure may vary if other fee is included to the total fee. Most of the institutions ask the candidates to pay the entire annual / semester fee at the time of admission. Following are details of institutions:

1) Birla Institute of Technology (Mesra Centre), Ranchi
Seats: 495
Fee: Rs. 43,500/- for B. Arch and 42,000/- for B.E.

2) Birla Institute of Technology, Patna Centre, Bihar
Seats: 165
Fee: Rs. 42,000/- for B.E.

3) Birla Institute of Technology – Deoghar Centre, Jharkhand
Seats: 251
Fee: Rs. 42000 for BE

4) Shri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Vishwa Mahavidyalaya, Kanchipuram, Tamilnadu
Seats: 141
Fee: Rs. 66500 at the time of joining

5) LNM Institute of Information Technology,Jaipur, Rajasthan
Seats: 240
Fee: Rs 51000

6) Jaipur National University, Jaipur, Rajasthan
Seats: 195
Fee: Rs. 53500

7) Lovely Professional University, Punjab
Seats: 960
Fee: Rs. 59500

8. International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
Seats: 210
Fee: Rs. 50000

9) SASTRA University (Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy), Thanjavur, Tamilnadu
Seats: 538
Fee: Rs. 35000 (Tuition fee)

10) Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubhaneshwar, Orrisa
Seats: 180
Fee: Rs. 135000 per year.

11) Dr. MGR Educational and Research Institute, Chennai, Tamilnadu.
Seats: 1000
Fee: Rs. 30000 to Rs. 62500 (depends on the branch)

12) Kalasalingam University, Krishnan Koil, Tamilnadu
Seats: 330
Fee: Rs. 75000 per year

13) Sir Padampat Singhania University Campus, Udaipur, Rajasthan
Seats: 420
Fee: Rs. 95000

14) Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar, Orissa.
Seats: 232
Fee: Rs. 120000 for first year

15) Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Haridwar, Uttarakhand.
Seats: 219
Fee: Rs. 59000

16) Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, Jammu and Kashmir
Seats: 280
Fee: Rs. 89600

17) Institute of Applied Medicines and Research, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh
Seats: 240 + 440 (5 year integrated course)
Fee: Rs. 85050

18) Vignan’s Foundation for Science Technology and Research, Vadlamudi, Andhra Pradesh.
Seats: 1380
Fee: Rs. 86000

19) Jayoti Vidyapeeth Women’s University, Jaipur, Rajasthan.
Seats: 180 + 156 (5 year integrated course)
Fee: Rs. 99000 per year

20) Mewar University, Chittorgarh, Rajasthan
Seats: 480 + 480 (5 year course)
Fee: Rs. 44000 per annum.