Hope alive for some sought-after programmes in DU fourth list

In Delhi University’s fourth cut-off list, some prominent and medium-prominence colleges still have some seats available in their sought-after programmes, including Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Economics.

Most of these colleges, however, have kept the cut-offs very steep, in the range of 95-99 per cent. Even in the fourth cut-off list, campus colleges are keeping high cut-offs, like the Hindu College — between 96.25 and 99.25 per cent in Commerce and 96.5 per cent in Economics.

Hansraj College’s cut-off range hovers around 96.5-98 per cent in Commerce and stands at 96.25 per cent in BA (Economics). A drop of mere 1 per cent has been witnessed during the release of four cut-off lists over the past 11 days by Hindu and Hansraj in these programmes.

Admissions are still open in these two programmes at College of Vocational Studies (CVS) and Kirori Mal College (KMC), while Sri Venketeshwara College is still admitting students in BA (Economics).

Women’s colleges including Daulat Ram, Gargi, IP College For Women, Kamla Nehru College and Maitreyi College are still inviting candidates in both or either of these two programmes.

Hansraj has some seats available in English and History programmes, while Hindu has some unfilled seats in BA (Sociology).

Lady Shri Ram (LSR) College has already closed admissions in all programmes barring History, while there are some seats up for grabs at KMC in English, History and Political Science.

Another campus college, Miranda House, has some seats available in English, Philosophy, Political Science and Sociology, among others.

Admissions in BSc programmes are closed in majority of the colleges, but a few seats are still available in Physics, Chemistry and Botany in some colleges.

Meanwhile, BTech programmes, especially in Computer Science, saw massive rush, as a result of which majority of the colleges filled all the seats right after the release of their second cut-offs.

However, seats are still available in several colleges in programmes in Electronics, Psychological Science, Food Technology and Instrumentation.This year, University of Delhi took an unprecedented step of introducing a four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP), for which it made an array of changes to the course curricula.

Reports of over-admissions and refusal of admissions despite meeting the cut-offs have surfaced at several off-campus.