DU Admission 2020: Registration process ends; Varsity gets highest number of applications in three years

Delhi University registration process has been closed. The varsity said that it has received one of the highest numbers of registration in the last three years.

DU Admissions 2020: The registration process for admission to Delhi University has got over with more than 5.63 lakh students applying online for Undergraduate courses, which is one of the highest in the last three years. The DU Registration Process 2020 ended on August 31 with the maximum applications being submitted by CBSE students and Delhi residents. A total of 1,83,674 students have applied for Postgraduate courses and 34,306 for M.Phil and Ph.D., as per the data revealed on the varsity's portal.

The maximum number of applicants are from Delhi (1,42,526), followed by Uttar Pradesh (66,657) and Haryana (50,701), according to data shared by the varsity.

As per the data, 5,63,351 students have registered for undergraduate courses, of which 3,53,171 have made payments. Of the total applicants, 2,22,399 are from the unreserved category, 69,682 from other backward classes, 42,293 from scheduled castes, 8,624 from scheduled tribes, and 10,173 from the economically weaker section (EWS), it said.

In the unreserved category, 1,16,482 female candidates have applied for undergraduate courses, as against 1,05,913 male candidates and four from the other category.

The Delhi University said 1,46,996 students have made payments for postgraduate courses. Out of the total number of registrations for these courses, 76,536 aspirants are from the unreserved category, 35,115 from other backward classes, 22,020 from scheduled castes, 5,710 from scheduled tribes and 7,615 from EWS, it said.

The number of students who have made payments for M.Phil and Ph.D. programmes is 21,699. Of them, 9,130 aspirants are from the unreserved category, 5,523 from other backward classes, 3,512 from scheduled castes, 1,188 from scheduled tribes and 2,346 from EWS, it said.

As per the official data shared by the varsity, under the sports quota, the maximum applications have been received for football (1,627), followed by athletics (1,621) and basketball (1,420). The admissions under the sports quota will be held on the basis of certificates this year and there will be no trials owing to the pandemic situation. The university this year decided to not hold extra-curricular activities (ECA) admissions, barring those having NCC and NSS certificates, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

But it later said admissions under 12 categories, including music, dance, divinity and yoga, will be held based on certificates. Under the ECA category, the maximum applications were received for NCC (3,876), followed by NSS (1,796) and debate (1,282). Under the PwD (persons with disabilities) category, the maximum applications were those suffering from a locomotor disability (496), blindness (452) and low vision (281). The registration for admission to all courses through entrance closed on July 31. However, the registration for admission through merit was open until August 31.

In 2019, the last date for registration was July 14 but it was later extended to July 18. Last year, the varsity had received 2,58,388 applications and the figure was 2,78,544 in 2018.

DU Cut-off is likely to be released by mid-September, however, there is no official notification on it yet. 

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