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Aviation course takes off as University of Pune joins hands with US academy

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Pune: After the much touted MTech aviation course of the University of Pune, which was introduced by the varsity in collaboration with Germany-based flying institute Fachschule fur Luftfahrzeugfuhrer (FFL) failed to attract students due to the financial feasibility, the varsity has now reached for help from the United States (US) and signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a Florida-based flying academy.
The varsity claims that this collaboration will sort out the issues of financial feasibility and the fees will be somewhere between Rs30 lakh and Rs35 lakh, which is way less compared to the earlier one where the costing of the entire course was beyond Rs70 lakh.
Vice Chancellor of University of Pune, who was on the tour of United States of America and Canada for the last 15 days, said that they have decided to keep both the options: FFL and Dean Aviation school, open for students.

"Currently there are six students who have taken admissions for MTech aviation Course in which they were supposed to complete one semester in India and rest three semesters in Germany, however after this MoU with Miami based aviation school, five students have chosen to go for USA based aviation course and only one student has opted for FFL, Germany," he said.

He claimed that the school has as many as 48 aircrafts, they have their own private airport, a full fledged workshop and professional staff.
Last year, the varsity had introduced MTech Aviation Course after they had signed MoU with Germany based flying institute FFL and out of 40 shortlisted candidates 20 students were selected, however looking at the fee structure which went up above Rs60 lakh, 14 students cancelled their admissions and only six students are left.
The varsity even tried to facilitate the students with bank loan however the model too did not work as the banks had limit of giving loan upto Rs25 lakh for any international course and since the fees were exorbitant, students chose not to go further.
 

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