Delhi University 2015 Applications to begin from May 28

Delhi University has declared their 2015 Admission Schedule. While DU Admissions 2015 Applications begin from May 28, DU open days are scheduled to be held from May 21 till May 30, 2015. Candidates applying for the most sought after university admissions for the academic session 2015 in various undergraduate programmes can also apply in offline mode from June 5, 2015.

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In a meeting held on May 16, DU officials confirmed that the online and offline applications will be available at different dates. Dr. Malay Neerav, Joint Dean, Delhi University Students’ Welfare (DUSW) said, “While the online registrations begin from May 28, candidates also have the option of applying offline from June 5, 2015. The last date for submitting duly filled in applications is June 15, in both cases, online and offline.”

Prof. J.M Khurana, Dean of Students’ Welfare (DSW) said, “The dates for online and offline applications have been scheduled on different dates unlike previous year, in order to encourage the online registrations.”

Candidates will have to remit an application fee of Rs. 100 (Rs. 50 for SC/ST/OBC category ).

This year, DU has introduced complete Online Application for post graduate programmes. Dr. Neerav advocating the online mode also said, “This year with online PG applications, we have been able to gather as many as 1 lakh applications from different parts of the nation. The online mode is more convenient these days. We will try to encourage the online applications for UG applicants too.”

There will be eight Admission Centres for receiving and submitting the duly filled in offline applications between the scheduled dates – June 5 and June 15, 2015. They are as follows –

• Atma Ram Sanatan Dharam College

• Dyal Singh College

• Gargi College

• Maharaja Agrasen College

• PGDAV College

• Rajdhani College

• Shyam Lal College

• Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce

Clarifying more on DU Admissions 2015 Process, the DSW officials informed that this year there shall be uniform eligibility criteria. Dr. Malay Neerav said, “No college in any case can impose its own additional eligibility criteria this year. Delhi University has directed all the constituent colleges to maintain uniform eligibility criteria as prescribed by the Central University.”

“If any constituent college of the University feels to provide relaxation or any eligibility criteria, the same has to be justified before the University and after approval of the University, the same shall be carried,” added the Media Coordinator.

Highlights of DU Admissions 2015 – Candidates can look below for DU Admissions 2015 Highlights –

• Uniform Eligibility Criteria for DU Admissions 2015

• No other college of the Central University except for St. Stephens’ and Jesus and Mary College, can have the additional eligibility criteria

• Admissions will be made on the basis of best of four subjects which will include one language and three academic subjects

• If any candidate requires admission in any programme of the University, and the same (programme/subject) is not included in his/her best of four subjects, he/she shall be in a disadvantage of 2.5% marks (10 marks), which means the cutoff for admissions will be calculated after deducting 10 marks from the total scored in best of four subjects

• For admissions in B.Com (Hons.) and BA Economics (Hons.), candidates will only need to pass in mathematics subject in the qualifying examination

• Delhi University encourages admissions for all age, irrespective of age bar and academic year gap

• For admissions in BA Programme and B.Com programme, if there is a case of change of stream, say a student from commerce background is interested in admissions in arts programme or vice-a-versa, there shall be a disadvantage of 5% in best of four subjects marks

• Colleges will need to seek a prior approval of the University for providing relaxation in cutoff marks to girl candidates which can be a maximum till 3%

• English and Hindi subjects will be mandatory for seeking admissions in English (Hons.) and Hindi (Hons.) programmes, respectively. Apart from these two subjects, candidates will be granted admissions in any of the language programmes, with a disadvantage of 5% in the best of four cutoff marks, if the language is studied till Class 10^th

• Accountancy, Business Studies and Biology will be treated as academic subjects

Speaking on Choice Based Credit System (CBCS), DU officials said that they will abide by the UGC guidelines. Dr. Malay Neerav said, “If UGC wants the implementation of CBCS, we are prepared for the same. Once our statutory bodies, Administrative Council and Executive Council approve the same, we will be implementing that. However, till date no such information has been received by the bodies.” Joint Dean DUSW also said that the University will follow the UGC guidelines strictly in accordance with the statutory bodies. Dr. Neerav further clarified, “No changes will be made in the application or admission process, if the same in any case is implemented during the admissions.”

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