Hindu College logged the highest cutoff (general category) for BA (Hons) Political Science at 950.58 (out of 1,000), TOI reported. Next was BA programme, English (H) and Psychology (H). The cutoffs have been released amid calls for transparency after earlier admission cycles raised concerns.
The top cutoffs include 936.18 for Hindu’s BA programme (History + Political Science), 926.93 for English (H) at St Stephen’s, 926.53 for Psychology (H) at LSR, and 925.98 for Political Science (H) at Miranda House.
Courses such History (H), BCom (H) and multidisciplinary BA programmes also so cutoffs higher than 912.
In BCom (Hons), SRCC had the highest cutoff with 917.43. Hindu College recorded a cutoff of 912.21, Lady Shri Ram College 906.37 and Hansraj College 901.71. The lowest score for the course came from Zakir Husain Delhi College (Evening), with 683.38, which suggests a wide range within the same programme.
Kirori Mal College emerged on top in BCom programme with a cutoff of 883.99, while in Ramjas College it was 877.68. The lowest was at Shyam Lal College (Evening).
More than 15.26 lakh students had applied for BCom, while BCom (Hons) received more than 20 lakh applicaions.
St Stephen’s College continued its dominance in English Hounours, with the highest minimum allocation score at 926.92. Hindu (885.76), Miranda House (863.02) and Hansraj (851.11) also posted high cutoffs for the course. The lowest score was recorded at Satyawati College (Evening) at 593.24. The course had over 12.2 lakh applications.
The cutoff for humanities programmes was out of 1,000 marks based on the top four subjects. Meanwhile, for science programmes, the cutoffs are from a maximum of 750 marks (based on the top three subjects), barring for Mathematics Honours and Computer Science, which also use the top four subjects.
Political Science (Hons) also saw high cutoffs at Miranda House (925.97), Lady Shri Ram (915.69) and Kirori Mal College (909.69). The lowest was at Shyam Lal College (Evening) at 569.73. Nearly 10 lakh students applied for this course.
St Stephen’s also topped for History Honours, with a cutoff of 918.71, ahead of Hindu College (914.38) and Miranda House (894.63). The lowest scores were seen at Satyawati (Evening) and Zakir Husain (Evening), at 556.60 and 553.24, respectively.
For science subjects, Mathematics (H) saw a highest cutoff of 834.08 at St Stephen’s, while for Zoology it was 678.44 at Hindu. For Physics (H), St Stephen’s had the highest cutoff of 578.76.
Nearly 3.1 crore students registered for this year’s admissions and 1.7 crore preferences submitted for DU courses and colleges.
DU released its first seat allotment list, offering 71,642 seats across 79 courses in 69 colleges to 93,000 students on Saturday.
Candidates have been given time till Monday to accept their allotted seats. Despite the massive first round of allocations, the admission process is still underway.
Many are expected to seek upgrades or shift to other preferred options. DU will release the list of vacant seats on July 24, and students can reorder their preferences by 4.59 pm on July 25.
The institute will release the second round of seat allotments on July 28. In the first round of undergraduate admissions at DU, the number of candidates who had accepted their allotted seats reached 72,659 by 9.40pm on Saturday. Colleges have so far approved 14,939 of those seats.