Deemed varsities, autonomous colleges start admission to degree courses in DK, Udupi

Admission process for 2025-26 undergraduate courses in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts begins; Mangalore University colleges to start in August.

Deemed to be universities and autonomous degree colleges in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts have commenced the admission process to their undergraduate courses for 2025-26 with the announcement of 2nd Pre University-Examination-1 results on April 8.

Meanwhile 150 colleges affiliated to Mangalore University are yet to commence the admission process, which may start only in August following announcement of semester results in July.

However, the university has allowed its constituent college--University College, Mangalore--to admit students now itself. “We do not want to lose out on students. Hence this year we allowed the college to admit students. The university will complete the admission formalities of students in the back end,” Vice-Chancellor P.L. Dharma told The Hindu. The college has introduced BCA course from this year and 36 applications have been received so far, he added.

The institutions that commenced admission process include St. Aloysius, Nitte and Yenepoya deemed to be universities and autonomous institutions, namely Alva’s College, Moodbidri, St. Agnes College, Mangaluru, Sri Dharmastala Manjunatheshwara College, Ujire, and St. Philomenas College and Vivekananda College of Arts Science and Commerce, both in Puttur.

St. Aloysius Deemed to be University commenced admission process from April 1 for six core courses, including B.A., B.Com, B.Sc. B.CA and BBA, five Bachelor of Vocation courses, and honours degree programmes offered by its Schools in ‘Arts and Humanities’, ‘Language and Cultural Studies’, ‘Life Sciences’, ‘Commerce Finance and Accountancy’, ‘Physical Sciences, and ‘Information Science and Technology’.

A spokesperson of University said it has planned to start classes for first year degree courses from June 16. “Covid disturbed our academic year three years ago. Since then we have been advancing the start of the new academic year by a month every year to make up for the loss. Last year classes started on July 6,” he said.

Alva’s Education Foundation chairman M. Mohan Alva said though students are joining courses, there will be cancellations soon after Common Entrance Test results announcement for admission to Engineering, Nursing and other professional courses in May last week. Unlike Deemed-to-be-Universities, autonomous colleges like Alva’s will be severely affected with such cancellations, he said.