“…Over the past 40 years, researchers have been using different time-tabling methods using constraint-based methods, population-based methods (eg, genetic algorithms [3], [4], ant colony optimization [5], and memetic algorithms [6]), the metaheuristic methods (eg, tabu search [7], simulated annealing [8], and great deluge [9]), variable neighbourhood search (VNS), and hybrid and hyper-hybrid approaches, etc., have been proposed. In this paper a new hybrid approach based on parallel genetic algorithm and local search is utilized in solving university course timetabling problem.…”