Despite High Cut Offs, DU Sees Over 9000 Admissions

The Delhi University (DU), despite high cut-offs, witnessed a wave of admissions in the last two days with over 9,000 students enrolling themselves in various courses.

University sources informed that over 9,196 students were enrolled for the 62,000 seats available in different DU colleges.

Despite announcing the highest cut-off (99 per cent) among all colleges, Hindu College's B.A. (Hons.) Political Science received 70 enrolments, more than the 43 available seats.

"We got more admissions than the available general category seats in B.Sc (Hons.) in Physics, Chemistry and B.A. (Hons.) in Philosophy as well. The admissions for general category might be closed in these courses," said Hindu College Principal Anju Srivastava.

It may be mentioned here that DU on last Thursday had released the first cut-off list for 63 colleges and since then, top colleges like Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) witnessed a lot of admissions.

Nearly 77 per cent admissions were done in B.A. (Hons.) in Economics and 40 per cent in B.Com (Hons).

Lady Shri Ram (LSR) College witnessed a good number of students enrolling themselves in undergraduate courses, as almost 700 seats were filled with the majority of admissions in B.A. (Hons.) Political Science.

Miranda House enrolled about 800 students for the 1,100 seats available.

Ramjas College witnessed 450 admissions for more than 1,700 seats available.