Functional and Non-Functional Departments

Functional & Non Functional Departments

Functional & Non Functional departments can be defined by Institute at the organizational level.

Functional Departments- Functional departments are something to which academics is directly not linked with.No student association takes place with these departments. Departments like Accounts, Transport, Library, Admin can comes under function departments.

Non- Functional Departments- Non functional departments can also be called as Programs, where academics is directly associated and students are linked with. Programs like B.tech (Computer Sci), B.Com, B.Sc comes under non functional departments.

Teaching faculties can be linked either with Functional departments/Programs. For example in some scenarios Science as a functional department can be formed and faculties can be linked with it. Whereas in some scenarios faculties are directly mapped with programs- B.Sc/M.Sc .

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Org Admin

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Org Admin >> Department Program Mapping

Terminology Used

Functional Departments- Functional departments are something to which academics is directly not linked with.No student association takes place with these departments. Departments like Accounts, Transport, Library, Admin can comes under function departments.

Non- Functional Departments- Non functional departments can also be called as Programs, where academics is directly associated and students are linked with. Programs like B.tech (Computer Sci), B.Com, B.Sc comes under non functional departments.

Trust- Governing body or the Parent body. The top management. There are two possible set-ups. One is University Setup where Main university is the trust. Another set up can be a private educational body such as "Gyandeep Educational Trust"

Campus -Under a trust multiple campus located in different cities/locations. For e.g. "Gyandeep Educational Trust" may have campus in Mumbai, Pune, Chandigarh and Delhi.

Institute- In these campuses there can be multiple Institutes offering education in different domains. Pune Campus of Gyandeep Educational Trust may have an Engineering College, a Dental College and a Primary and Secondary School.

So Gyandeep Educational Trust, Pune Campus has 1. Institute of Engineering and Technology 2. Institute of Dental Sciences 3. Gyandeep International School

Department- In an Institute there can be various Departments which can be functional or non-functional (Program). Institute of Engineering and Technology can have (1) Admission Department (2) Finance Department (3) Library Department (4) BE - Comp (5) BE - Civil (6) MTech - Comp

Out of these the first three are functional Department and the Second three are non-functional departments also known as Programs.

University - The Programs can be autonomous or affiliated to some University. Here BE - Comp, BE - Civil and MTECH- Comp are affiliated to Savitribai Phule University

University here is a third part regulating admissions, academics and examination