Over 61,000 confirm admissions in first round of admissions through GCAS portal

As the first round of the first phase of admissions to various undergraduate (UG) programmes through the Gujarat Common Admission Services (GCAS) portal for academic year 2025-26 was completed on Saturday, 61,540 students have confirmed their admissions against a total intake of 4,71,710 seats for UG programmes across 13 public universities in Gujarat. The GCAS, the online admission process of the state government, is in its second year.

However, 3,81,046 admission offers have been made to verified students that also include more than one offers to one student. The second round of admissions will commence from Tuesday.

“Universities were earlier offering admissions through a centralised admission system, in which, the university would prepare a single merit list and offer admission to a student in only one programme based on merit from the list of all colleges and programmes of their choice. As a result, a student was offered admission in only one college programme. However, this year, these unversities are offering admissions through a decentralised admission system, under which, all colleges affiliated to the university prepare their own merit list and offer admissions to students who have chosen programmes offered by the respective college, as per merit. Therefore, a student gets admission offers from more than one college programme (major subject) based on their merit,” eucation department officials, who are supervising the GCAS, stated.