While Mumbai’s autonomous colleges are gearing up to launch the fourth year of select undergraduate programmes, the question that looms is what becomes of the classrooms after that. In this change brought about by the National Education Policy (NEP), students opting for the fourth year of their bachelor’s (Honours Programme) are to study alongside those who are in the first year of their master’s.

However, since the four-year students may finish their academic journeys sooner, colleges are left wondering whether the second year of their master’s programme will see half-filled classrooms.