As per our communication with UGC vide an RTI (UGCOM/R/2017/55177, Dt ,09/11/2017) the “WILP programme is not approved by UGC.”.
Below is the first response from UGC on the WILP program,
Query through the RTI –
The candidate have been undergoing Work Integrated Learning Programme (WILP) in Master of Science ‐ Business Analytics in BITS Pilani and just completed the Comprehensive Examination of first semester.
Recently Supreme Court cancels engineering degrees given by deemed universities through correspondence course. BITS Pilani is UGC Approved deemed university but not AICTE approved. They claim that this WILP Programme is not a distance learning or correspondence course.