AUD to bring ‘respite from high cut-offs’ for city students

Over 21,000 more students scored above 90% this year as compared to 2018

NEW DELHI, 12/06/2016: A view of Ambedkar University Delhi, Kashmiri Gate, in New Delhi on Sunday. Built in the early 1900's the building served as the IG Block, during the British period and then successively housed many educational institutions, the Kashmiri Gate Polytechnic, Woodcraft Institute and Delhi Institute of Technology. Presently, it serves as the University School of Information Technology. Photo: Shanker Chakravarty

The cut-offs of various colleges for the 2019-20 session is likely to go higher as Central Board of Secondary Education exam results across the country show that 92,299 students scored above 90% and 17,693 above 95% in Class XII.

This is an increase of 21,700 students scoring above 90% and 12,737 above 95% as compared to last year, which paves the way for fierce competition in which every decimal point will make a difference.

The Delhi University (DU) is yet to open its admission portal.

However, if there is no entrance examination for undergraduate (UG) course like last year, the students of Delhi will be competing with those from across the country for approximately 57,000 seats.

They will need near perfect scores to get admission as options in the city apart from DU remains limited.

Over the past decade, Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD) has become a popular choice for those wanting to pursue non-science courses. The university ensures that students from Delhi have an advantage over other applicants. It also has a quota for Co-Curricular activities and for a Single Girl Child.

Courses offered

At its Kashmere Gate Campus, the university offers B.A. (Hons.) in economics, English, history, mathematics, psychology, sociology and social sciences and humanities. At its Karampura Campus, it offers B.A. in law and politics, sustainable urbanism and in social sciences and humanities. It also offers B.Voc. in tourism and hospitality apart from retail management, early childhood centre management and entrepreneurship.

Admission for B.A. (Hons.) and B.A. will be merit-based only. The first cut-off list for UG courses will be announced on July 9.

The university has announced that it will list upto six cut-off lists. Subsequent cut-off lists will be announced if seats continue to remain vacant, it said. Admission to B.Voc. will be done via admission test on June 27 followed by an interview.

The online admission portal is open and the last date for application is June 24.

Details for the number of seats and eligibility can be found in the Bulletin of Information on the portal.