Over 435k apply for DU admission

NEW DELHI: Delhi University has received over 435,000 applications for around 70,000 seats in undergraduate programmes till Monday, the highest so far, university officials said. The numbers are expected to go even higher with registrations continuing till Tuesday evening.

Last year, the university received 351,974 paid applications in the three-month registration window that was 100,000 more than 2019 (258,388). To be sure, the registration portal was open for 10 weeks in 2020, as compared to four weeks this year, in order to help students amid problems arising out of the Covid pandemic. The first cut-off is likely to come out on October 1 and admissions to the undergraduate courses will begin on October 4, officials said.

Though there are 435,000 plus registrations on the admissions portal so far, only around 250,000 among them are paid applications due to factors, including duplicity and multiple registrations per candidate. This year, registrations for undergraduate courses began on August 2, and online registrations for the postgraduate, Mphil, and PHD courses took place between July 26 and August 21. It received over 183,815 applications for 20,000 PG seats and 30,019 registrations for Mphil/phd slots.

A senior university official who asked not to be named said, “Students can pay the registration fee till 11.59pm Tuesday. Only the paid applications will be considered. We did not extend the registration date.”