jamia millia islamia jmi can no longer be seen as an alternate universityconsidering that the university is sparing no expenses in augmenting its infrastructure and the number of applicants to the varsity too have increased jamia millia islamia jmi can no longer be seen as an alternate universitythe course that attracted the maximum number of applications this year was btech according to rakshanda jalil media coordinator of the varsity with a faculty of over 15 years of experience hightech labs and almost 100 placement records the 33000 applications received for the btech programme this year were not surprisingthe overall placements for 200506 also say a lot about the university the pay packages offered to jamia graduates ranged from rs 2 to rs 6 lakh said m n doja head of training and placement recruiters at jmi included the likes of hp accenture lt siemens and bluestar among othersthe universitys centres have introduced many new courses off late the academy of third world studies now offers an mphil in international studies and a certificate course in kyrgyz masters in architecture and masters in ekistics are the new courses available at the faculty of architecture and ekistics in addition ma photography and postgraduate pg diplomas in child rights and journalism english are also being offered from this year onwards pg diplomas are seen as valuable addons by students said jalil the university has modified its threeyear ba llb programme and has now made it a fiveyear course available right after 102crediting the university grant commission ugc for the ongoing infrastructural development at jmi jalil informed that in addition to renovating the existing structures the university is establishing three new centres of education the centre for theoretical physics centre for sufi studies and the centre for culture media and governance jamia has also employed 400 new teachers and increased its student intake by a total of 708 seats for the various courses offered according to her the university had preempted the hrd ministrys decision and hence the increase in intake the seats for the mba programme were increased from 30 to 60 last year keeping in mind the demand