Fill UG Vacant Seats Through Spot Admission, Mop-Up Rounds: DU VC to Colleges

Over 9000 undergraduate seats still vacant in various DU colleges.

Delhi University will conduct an open mop-up round to fill vacant undergraduate seats in its affiliated colleges. Despite admissions through the CSAS portal and multiple mop-up rounds, over 9000 undergraduate seats are still vacant in various DU colleges.

Fill vacant UG seats through Spot admission

In a recent meeting of the Executive Council of Delhi University, regarding vacant seats in undergraduate programmes in some colleges, Vice-Chancellor Prof. Yogesh Singh suggested that an open mop-up round should be considered for them so that students can take direct admission to the college through spot admissions.

The Executive Council members authorised the Vice-Chancellor to formulate a policy in this regard. DU has been conducting online mop-up rounds to fill its undergraduate seats, and now it is based only on Class 12 results, while CUET UG scores were the primary criteria for admission to UG courses.

Regarding the fourth year of UG started under NEP 2020, the Vice Chancellor said that research discussion rooms should be made in every college.

According to the university, when the issue of a clear policy for all colleges regarding admission under ECA and sports quota was raised by the executive committee members, the Vice Chancellor said that the provision of a combined 5 percent quota fixed for this is for all colleges, in this the colleges can make a provision of 3:2 as per the facilities available at their level as to who to give 3 percent and who 2 percent. The executive committee members authorized the Vice Chancellor to make the policy.

Guidelines for PhD course

Guidelines for PhD courses were also passed in the DU Executive Committee meeting. It is worth noting that all the departments of the university conduct PhD programmes in their respective subjects. As a mandatory part of this programme, a PhD course is being conducted by each department. It has been observed that there are variations in the format of the course being taught in different subjects. Therefore, to bring uniformity in the PhD course in different subjects, some guidelines have been prepared to be effective from the academic year 2025-26, which have been passed by the DU Executive Committee.

Under this, the total credits required for the PhD course will range from 12 to 16 credits, with a minimum of 12 credits being distributed as follows:

There will be 4 credits of research methodology or advanced research methodology (for students who have already studied research methodology). There will be 2 credits of research publication ethics, 2 credits of research tools and 4 credits of subject-specific optional courses related to research areas. If required, additional 4 credits can be obtained from DSE. This will apply to the specific field and such courses should not be offered in postgraduate studies. Teaching hours of PhD courses are included in the faculty workload. Courses offered in PhD courses should be of a higher level than the courses offered in postgraduate programmes.