What duration of bachelor’s degree did the University Education Commission…

Concept

Education commissions recommend institutional structures by linking stages of schooling, university entry, and the length of degree programmes.

For a commission-based recall question, the governing method is to identify the commission and then match the duration stated in its recommendation, rather than apply a present-day programme pattern.

Application

The University Education Commission (1948–49), chaired by Dr S. Radhakrishnan, recommended reorganising the first bachelor’s degree as a three-year degree course after the preceding school and intermediate stage.

Contrast

• Five years represents an extended integrated programme duration, not the duration attached to this commission’s bachelor’s-degree recommendation.

• Four years is used in several honours, research, and professional undergraduate structures, but it is not the duration specified in this recommendation.

• Two years is a shorter course duration associated with other programme structures, not the recommended bachelor’s-degree span here.

Result

Therefore, the recommended bachelor’s degree duration was three years.