hyderabad while universities and engineering colleges in the state are offering courses like artificial intelligence machine learning data sciences as specialisation courses some of the colleges have begun a debate saying these emerging tech courses need to be offered as honours degreewhile managements say students need to secure 180 credits to get a honours degree in these courses along with computer science engineering for their degree to be valid officials of jawaharlal nehru technological university hyderabad jntuh said that 160 credits are enough as per the all india council for technical education aictenormseven at the cost of admissions in our institutions we have been informing the students approaching our institutions that in our colleges we have only btech cse course with 160 credits with an option to secure honours degree in aiml data science cyber security lot after securing additional 18 to 20 credits said kvk rao founder chairman st marys group of institutionshowever students got confused after seeing the course codes of b tech cse ai ml data science cyber security lot said rao who is general secretary of all india federation of self financing technical institutionsmanagements have already submitted a representation to officials of higher education technical education jawaharlal nehru technological university hyderabad among others on the issue saying that these courses will be considered illegal and are in violation of aicte norms they say that officials will have to change the code name of the courses in accordance with aicte and offer emerging technology courses as honours degree instead of specializationthe jntuh registrar m manzoor hussain said that 160 credit courses are being followed as per aicte norms he said that students have nothing to worry about and that their degree will be valid and recognized by aictenot just jntu other universities and colleges are offering these courses if we are offering emerging technology courses as honours degree then students will need to secure 180 credits but right now they dont have to why are only a handful of colleges creating issues when all others are offering these courses questioned the registrar