Choice based credit system (CBCS), provides a learning platform wherein the student or knowledge seeker has the flexibility to choose their course from a list of elective, core, and soft skill courses. This is a student-centric approach to learning or acquiring higher education.

Choice Based Credit systems not only open pathways for learning opportunities but also manifest learning goals and objectives. CBCS follows a credit system that is attached to course components offered to students. A credit system for higher education measures various parameters like student performance, outcomes, entrepreneurship skills, contact hours, innovation and creativity talents, etc.

This CBCS system is an initiative of the University Grants Commission (UGC); which enhances and promotes educational liberalization of existing conventional higher education models.