Mumbai University closes admission registration; commerce, allied courses most popular

More than 3.8 lakh applications have been received for commerce and allied courses offered by MU and affiliated colleges. While traditional commerce course (B.Com) has received more than 1.5 lakh applications, various professional courses offered under the commerce stream have much bigger share when combined. There are more than 2.3 lakh applications received for various professional courses in commerce stream.

In science stream, however, this gap in number of applications between traditional and professional courses is much bigger. While traditional BSc has received nearly 3,5000 applications, various professional courses under science stream have received more than 7,6000 applications combined with new-age courses such as data science and artificial intelligence gaining momentum.

Whereas in Arts stream, for traditional BA course, less than 5,0000 applications have been received. While professional courses under Arts stream such as BAMMC and Psychology are considered much popular, they have received a smaller number of applications. More than 34000 applications have been received for BAMMC whereas, for psychology 5490 applications have been received.

Notably, there are a few courses offered by MU which have received admission applications in single digit numbers. Such courses are Bachelor of Performing Arts, Bachelor of Fine Art, and Bachelor of Engineering in Printing and Packaging Technology.

HSNC University declares first merit list

Hyderabad Sind National Collegiate (HSNC) University declared its first merit list on Monday. The private university in Mumbai includes popular colleges such as KC and HR, located in Churchgate. At both colleges, there is marginal increase in the cut-off scores, compared to last year.

Col Dr. Hemlata K. Bagla, Vice Chancellor, HSNC University, said, “We are witnessing a significant surge in student interest across diverse domains—from financial markets on one hand to psychology, especially when combined with subjects like sociology, political science, and English. While science enrollments which saw a temporary dip last two years , the number of forms filled has surprisingly doubled compared to last year.”