The executive council of Urdu, Arabic-Persian University decided to offer some selected courses from the session starting July, 2011. The diploma courses of Arabic-Persian translator and interpreter, BCA, BCom, comparative studies of Indian languages, five-year integrated course in law, journalism and mass communication will be started, initially.

As for the eligibility criterion, it will be mandatory for the candidates taking admissions to have studied Udru, Arabic or Persian at the high school level. Every course offered by the university will have an additional paper of Urdu, Arabic or Persian. To make students learn the correct pronunciation, a lab will be set up. Along with Urdu, courses on comparative analysis of literatures of different languages like Hindi, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Punjabi, Marathi, Malayalam, Bengali and Sanskrit would also be offered.

See: The Times of India