CUET PG 2025 Counselling: What's Happening and Where Do Universities Stand?
CUET PG 2025 counselling process remains unclear as universities follow separate timelines. Here is a guide to what students should do and who has released admission lists so far.
Confusion continues over CUET PG 2025 counselling, as several central and state universities are yet to release detailed admission schedules despite result announcements weeks ago. The absence of a unified counselling authority and inconsistent timelines have left thousands of CUET PG aspirants in a fix.
What’s the Current PG Admission Status?
As of July 31, major central universities like JNU and BHU have not published their admission calendar for PG courses based on CUET 2025 scores. In contrast, Delhi University released its second PG merit list under its Common Seat Allocation System (CSAS).
Universities are taking admission through individual CUET UG counselling. many PG aspirants were expecting a more centralised process this year, considering the scale of the exam conducted by NTA across disciplines.
Sources from UGC earlier hinted that the idea of a common PG counselling platform was discussed. As a result, candidates must keep track of individual university portals for application and merit list updates.
Top Universities and Their CUET PG 2025 Admission Status
Delhi University has released 2nd PG Merit List on July 29, 2025
Jawaharlal Nehru University is yet to release Schedule.
Banaras Hindu University is yet to release Schedule.
University of Hyderabad has released 1st List on Aug 5.
What Students Should Do
Visit official websites of their preferred universities.
Commonly asked questions
With a score of 70 in JNUEE exam, students can easily get admission to any of the UG and PG course available at JNU. The JNU UG cutoff 2024 ranged between 55.33 and 69.78 for the General AI category candidates. Under which, the courses with the highest cutoff and lowest cutoff were BA (Hons) in French and BA(Hons) in Pashto, respectively.
Check out the courses available for the candidates having a score 70 or below for the General AI category candidates:
BHU accepts CUET scores for admission to UG and PG courses. The admissions are over within few weeks of CUET counselling. CUET-PG is usually jeld in March whereas, CUET-UG takes place in May. Students must check the complete schedule for exact dates. CUET applications for the coming year will begin in February and continue till April.
Register or apply under specific portals (DU's CSAS for instance).
Track application deadlines and merit list.
Keep documents and scorecards handy for submissions.
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