
DU Admission: 47,291 Applications Received Under First Cut-Off List
NDTV
The university released its first cut-off list on October 1 and the admissions to nearly 70,000 seats commenced on Monday.
The Delhi University has received over 47,291 applications for admission under the first cut-off list with 7,167 students completing the process by paying the fees. As many as 9,114 applications have been approved by principals across colleges. The university released its first cut-off list on October 1 and the admissions to nearly 70,000 seats commenced on Monday.
At Hindu College, most of those who took admissions to Political Science(Honours) is from Kerala State Board. There have been 70 approved admissions to BA (Honours) Political Science which has a cut-off of 100 per cent for the unreserved category, including three to four admissions under the EWS category, 11 under the OBC category and six to seven under the SC/ST category.
"It's the same story every year. If you have 100 per cent (cut-off), then also you have over-admissions. We will have to work on how to engage more teachers and maintain a good teacher-student ratio," principal Anju Srivastava said.
Last month, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan had directed central universities to fill up 6,200 vacancies of professors. At Miranda House, the unreserved seats for Political Science (Honours) course have been filled and there is a possibility that in the second list, only be seats available under the reserved categories will be available.
