Delhi University Wednesday began its admission process for the 2023-24 academic year for undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD courses. The new session is likely to commence on August 16, DU Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Singh said. Launching the Common Seat Allocation System (CSAS) admission portal, Singh said the admission process will be held in two phases — first phase for registration and the second for seat allocation after the qualifying Common University Entrance Test (CUET) results are declared. “The portal will open again mid-entry for candidates who missed out in registering the first time around. An additional fee of Rs 1,000 will be charged from students. Applicants may not be at an advantage in the second phase as the options of courses and colleges might be very limited,” he added. Like last year, admissions to all programmes are based on scores obtained in CUET. For undergraduate aspirants, on offer are around 71,000 seats for 78 undergraduate programmes and 198 BA Programme combinations in 68 colleges. In CUET 2022-23, BCom (Hons) and BCom were the most sought-after courses with over 1 lakh students showing interest in both. Singh said, “The most sought-after course was BCom (Hons) where 1.30 lakh students showed interest, and the second was B.Com pass course with 1,26,239 students showing interest. This means B.Com is the flagship programme of the University of Delhi and many students want to join this programme.” The university, like last year, will admit more students than the number of seats available to account for withdrawals later in the academic session. While last year, the number of students admitted were 20% more than the available seats, this year the university has revised its policy. In colleges which saw less than 5% withdrawals last year, it will admit an additional 10% students. One such college is SRCC. In colleges that saw more than 5% withdrawals last year, 20% additional students will be admitted. Admissions to postgraduate courses will also be done through the portal based on CUET-PG 2023 score. The university has a total of 13,500 PG seats for 77 PG programmes in 58 departments. PhD admissions, meanwhile, are being offered in 51 programmes this year and the registration process will start from the last week of June. “There are two platforms — through UGC NET and through CUET. However, interviews would be compulsory for candidates. PhD admissions will start in July. Registration fees will be Rs 750 for general category and Rs 300 for SC/ST/OBC,” Singh said. After decades of admissions through cutoffs based on class XII marks, DU had adopted the entrance test based admission system last year. In 2021, the last year of cutoff-based admissions, 10 programmes across colleges had set a 100% cutoff.
