BA (Hons) Urdu Course, Eligibility, Syllabus, Career, Top Institutes, Fees

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Bachelor of Arts (BA) (Hons.) in Urdu is a three year Under Graduate (UG) program in Urdu language offered by various colleges and universities across the country. Students who have passed their class 12^th or equivalent examination from a recognized state or central board can make an application for the course provided that they satisfy other eligibility criteria listed by the respective college or university.

The course is divided into six semesters distributed over a span of 3 years. Each year comprises of two semesters with End Semester Exam (ESE) being conducted at the end of each semester. In order to pass the year and advance to next year of the UG program students have to pass in both the semester exams (Individually).

Some of the colleges that offer BA (Hons.) in Urdu through the above-mentioned criteria are listed below for your reference.

Colleges list out minimum qualifying percentage (In board exams) required for admission and candidates who satisfy the minimum cut-off percentage criteria for admission can make an application for admission to the course.

The average fee for the course in colleges across India is somewhat around INR 25,000 with certain variations based on college to college and city to city basis. BA (Hons.) in Urdu graduate student can find jobs in the domain of content development, teaching, journalism, embassy level work etc after successful completion of their 3 year UG program.

BA (Hons) Urdu: Course Highlight Table

Course Type	Under Graduate (UG)
Area Concerned	Language (Urdu)
Duration of Course	3 Years
Admission process	Merit-based (Based on class 12^th board percentage)
Structure of Course	Semester-Wise
Eligibility	10+2 or equivalent
Top recruiting areas	Content development, Teaching, Communication/Translation, Journalism, Embassies.
Job Profiles	Translator, Content developer, Journalist, Teacher, Embassy related work.
Course Fee	INR 25,000
Average starting salary	INR 15,000

Top Colleges for Bachelor of Arts [BA] {Hons.} (Urdu)

BA (Hons) Urdu: What is it about?

The 3-year graduation program in Urdu focuses on providing an overall outlook of this Modern Indian language to the students through the vast coverage of its syllabus. The study of Sanskrit is divided into following parts

Poetry: This involves the study of couplets and dialects from the famous Urdu poets and philosophers who contributed to the beauty of this language. The main idea behind teaching poetry is to make the students aware about the artistic style and usage of the language.
Literature: It is analogous to the fiction or literature part in English (or any other language). It involves the study of stories, novels, and fiction written by famous authors in the given language. It focuses on the literary aspect of the Urdu language.
Grammar: Grammar as in any other language plays a role of enhancing or enriching the experience of learning the language. It focuses on making the students understand basic rules and aspects that one should follow while speaking or writing the language. It involves the study of Tenses, Punctuation, Noun, and Pronouns etc. as used in the Urdu language.
History: This area of study involves the knowledge and information in regards to the origin and development of the Urdu language. Students would be taught about the genesis of the language write from its advent in India to the spread of its influence across the globe. Understanding of the modern face of the language and its usage in the contemporary times requires a good knowledge in regards to the history of language and hence students are taught about it.

The syllabus of the course is divided in such a manner that a student pursuing the course learns these various parts of the language in a sequential manner under the semester-wise division of the course curriculum.

BA (Hons) Urdu: Top Institutes

A significant number of colleges across the country offer the BA (Hons.) in Urdu course to candidates who have passed their 10+2 or equivalent examination from a recognized state board or central board. Students can take admission in the course directly by applying to the various institutes offering this course based on their performance at the plus two level.

For your reference, we have tabled down a list of various colleges/universities that are offering this course in India.

Institute/College	City	Average Fee
Zakir Husain College	Delhi	INR 9,000
Aligarh Muslim University	Aligarh	INR 7,625
ANS College	Patna	INR 8,400
Bokaro Steel City College	Bokaro	INR 1,190
DAV College	Siwan	INR 16, 340
Doranda College	Ranchi	INR 745
Grossner College	Ranchi	INR 8, 137
Hooghly Mohsin College	Hooghly	INR 1, 225
Jamia Milia Islamia	Delhi	INR 7, 033
JD Women’s College	Patna	INR 26, 000
Marwari College	Ranchi	INR 12, 000
Satyawati College	Delhi	INR 7, 393

BA (Hons) Urdu: Eligibility

Candidate must have passed the 10+2 or equivalent examination from a recognized state board or central board with at least 55% (45% to 50% for reserved category candidates) marks.

Candidate shall not be having any backlog or compartment in any of the subject/Subjects at plus two or equivalent level that is yet to be cleared at the time of taking admissions.
Apart from the above mentioned eligibility criteria’s various colleges and institutes may have their own additional criteria’s which the students would have to satisfy in order to take admission.
In case of reserved category students, they would have to present their reservation certificates issued by the competent authorities in order to avail the benefits applicable for them.

The eligibility criteria’s mentioned above are common to most of the universities and colleges across the country that are offering this course to the students.

BA (Hons) Urdu: Admission Process

The admission process for this course involves a merit-based selection procedure rather than a common entrance test based admission process (as seen across various Universities and colleges in the country). For more clarification and ease of understanding, we have dealt with the process of admission for this course in a more detailed manner under the below-mentioned points.

Some Universities/Colleges conduct a common entrance test for admission into BA (Hons.) courses hence students would have to make an application for such exams.
Students have to qualify these exams (for which they should be eligible to appear) in order to get admission in the course.
After the conduct of the test, a merit list of finally qualified candidates is prepared and candidates are invited for counselling cum admission process by the respective university or college.
After admission process, final allotment of seats to the candidate takes place and the candidate is asked to deposit the fee for the course and register for the respective academic year.

However, in most of the colleges, the admission process would be a straight forward task which would involves college displaying cut-off for the course two to three times (or more till the seats are filled) and candidates satisfying the cut-off percentage visiting the college and getting admissions.

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BA (Hons) Urdu: Syllabus and Course description

The syllabus of the course is divided into 6 semesters spread over a span of three years with each year comprising of two semesters. Candidates would have to pass both the semester exam in order to proceed for next year of course.

Year I	Year II	Year III
Old Poetry Text	Drama, Fiction, and Satire	Principle of literary criticism
Prose Text in Urdu	Additional Poetry text	Literary Movements
History and Criticism of old prose	Rheotric	Different schools of critisim
Modern Urdu poetry	History and Criticism under rheotric	History of Urdu Language and literature
Short stories	History of the language	Urdu literature in Bengal

BA (Hons) Urdu: Who Should Opt for?

Students who have interest in learning different languages can opt for this course.
Those who have a teaching career in mind can also try their hands at this course.
Those who are looking for a career in the field of communication and journalism can also opt for the course.
Those aiming at government jobs after graduation can also opt for the course.

BA (Hons) Urdu: Career Prospects

Urdu graduate candidates have plenty of options to choose from in terms of his/her career. One can choose from areas like journalism and communication to the more common one likes teaching, embassy level work and literary works.

To provide you a holistic view of the career prospects of the course we have tabled certain areas and the respective roles attached to the same where Sanskrit graduates can look for in terms of their career.

Bachelor of Arts [BA] {Hons.} (Urdu) annual salary

Job Profile	Role	Average Salary (in INR)
Translator	The person involved in this sector is entrusted with responsibilities of communicating Urdu in English, Hindi or any other language to the correspondents or the thirds person. Working in this domain requires knowledge of two to three languages apart from Urdu.	INR 1.44-1.8 Lacs
Journalist/Content Developer	Working in this domain requires one to indulge in developing content in the Urdu language for the viewers as well as preparing news item for the newspapers or journals.	INR 1.8 Lacs
Government SchoolTeacher/Journalist	Job in a government sector can range from a teaching job to a job of the translator. Urdu graduates can also look for opportunities in various government sectors like news anchor or reporter in government run news channels.	INR 1.44-2.16 Lacs
Assistant in Embassy	Work in this domain involves working with various embassies of Islamic and Arabic countries in India and abroad and doing day to day desk based job	INR 1.44-2 Lacs
College/Private school Teacher	This would involve regular teaching job of teaching the language to school or college level students. There are plenty of options in government and private sector but the candidate has to go for B.Ed degree in the long run.	INR 1.2-1.4 Lacs