Over three lakh students vie for DU undergraduate courses

The online and offline registration for undergraduate courses in Delhi University closed on Monday midnight.

The varsity has already received 3,37,652 applications for 54,000 seats.

While the sale of offline forms at eight registration centres ended at 4 pm on Monday, the online registrations closed at midnight.

Among the online applications received, 1,40,396 are from the general category; 55,216 from OBC; 23,915 from SC; 4,855 from ST; and 674 from people with disabilities.

A total of 72,596 forms were sold this year.

The registration for admission to St. Stephen's College and Jesus and Mary College also closed at midnight. These colleges also have separate admission process being minority institutions.

The centralised fitness tests for sports admission will be conducted from June 18 to June 20 at the DU polo ground. The tests will start from 9 am and the results will be uploaded on theDU website.

The aspirants will get a certificate which will be valid for all the sports trials to be conducted by individual colleges.

The first cutoff will be announced on June 25, which will be followed by six to seven similar lists.

The candidates will have three days to take admission under each list. This year, the first-year students will be enrolled under the choice based credit system (CBCS).

The CBCS provides choice for students to select from the prescribed courses (core, elective or minor or soft skill courses).

The academic calendar of the varsity has been going through a roller-coaster ride with the fouryear-undergraduate programme (FYUP) being rolled back and the introduction of CBCS from 2015-2016.

On May 28, the varsity approved the implementation of the choice based credit system (CBCS) from the upcoming session, ending confusion among candidates who are seeking admission to the undergraduate programmes.

The proposal was vetted by the varsity's Executive Council despite dissent from five members, who alleged that the programme is being pushed in an "undemocratic" manner.