CUET 2022: Central Universities announce admission policies for UG programmes

NEW DELHI: Ahead of Central University Entrance Test, CUET 2022 application process, central universities across the country released their admission policies.

While CUET 2022 scores are mandatory for admission to 45 participating universities, they will frame their own admission criteria. The exam conducting authority, National Testing Agency (NTA), has advised students to refer to the eligibility requirements of various Central Universities before applying.

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The CUET 2022 will also be compulsory for minority universities like Jamia Millia Islamia University and Aligarh Muslim University. While JMI has released the eligibility criteria for the eight programmes that will come under CUET, AMU’s academic council is yet to decide on it. University Grants Commission chairman M Jagadesh Kumar also announced that eight deemed-to-be universities including the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) and Jamia Hamdard have expressed a desire to use CUET score undergraduate. Meanwhile, state universities in Karnataka have also agreed to use CUET scores for non-technical courses.

The CUET 2022 entrance exam will be conducted in the first week of July. The three-and-half-hour computer-based entrance test will be conducted in two shifts. The first slot consists of one language test, two domain-specific papers, and a general test. The second slot of the CUET exam 2022 includes four domain-specific subjects and one optional language subject.

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The syllabus of the CUET will be based on Class 12 NCERT books . International students seeking admission to Indian universities are exempted from CUET. Their admissions will be carried out on the existing supernumerary basis.

Delhi University UG admission 2022

Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Singh announced the most awaited admission policy for undergraduate admission to DU colleges on Tuesday. Singh, explaining the admission policy, said that candidates will have to appear in CUET 2022 only in those subjects which they have studied in Class 12. The merit will be calculated on the basis of the combination of the subjects that the student appeared in. “There will be no disadvantage to anyone on changing the stream,” Singh assured through an official statement.

Admission to most of the BSc courses will be calculated on the basis of physics, chemistry, mathematics or biology. It is mandatory to obtain at least 30 percent marks in any one language in CUET 2022, the statement said. Meanwhile, a candidate can choose any one language from section one and in any three subjects from the other section for admission to humanities courses.

For subjects like BA (Hons) Economics, it is mandatory for the candidates to take the test in mathematics for CUET 2022. Merit for this will be calculated on the basis of marks obtained in the chosen language, mathematics and any two other domain-specific subjects. Best score will be considered for admission in DU.

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The counselling for DU admission 2022 will be done completely online this year. The university is planning to conduct several rounds of counselling and students will be given a chance to refill their preferences in subsequent rounds. The student based on their score will be able to choose the subject and college of their preference.

Minority colleges like St Stephen’s College, Jesus and Mary College, Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College and Mata Sundri College for Women that reserve 50 percent seats for Christians and Sikhs will have to fill 50 percent of the total seats through CUET 2022 scores only. In the remaining seats reserved for minorities, 85 percent of the marks for admission will be taken from CUET and the remaining 15 percent will be decided by the colleges.

Allahabad University

Allahabad University, in its admission policy released on Tuesday, said that admission to all undergraduate courses will be done strictly based on CUET 2022 scores only.

Allahabad University's admission policy requires students to choose one language as Hindi or English in section 1A and 1B.

For admission into BA courses, students can choose any domain-specific subject offered by NTA. The university has made an exception of BA geography where students must choose geography or physics, chemistry, mathematics and defence studies.

For BSc programmes, the university has given options of domains specific subjects including physics, chemistry, mathematics, geology, biology and anthropology. A student can choose at least two or all of these six subjects.

For BCom programmes, a student will have to either choose commerce or at least two subjects between physics, chemistry, mathematics and biology.

Along with all these domain-specific subjects, students will also have to appear for the general aptitude test consisting of questions related to general knowledge, current affairs, numerical ability, and quantitative reasoning.

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Pondicherry University

At Pondicherry University, a student will have to appear for a general test to get admission to the five-year integrated MA programme in subjects like history, political science and sociology. Students aspiring will have to obtain a minimum of 50 percent of marks in Class 12. The university will offer 25 seats for each programme.

The university also offers MA (SEAL), a five-year integrated programme in social and economic administration and law. To be eligible for admission to this programme students must have at least 50 percent marks in the qualifying examination.

For science stream integrated programmes such as physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, and statistics will have to choose physics, chemistry and mathematics in the CUET 2022 with 50 percent marks in Class 12. Candidates from commerce and humanities will not be eligible for this programme. For the integrated programme in applied geology, students have to appear for physics, chemistry and mathematics.

The university, as per the central reservation criteria, will implement reservations for Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, Other Backward Caste and Economically Weaker Section. Five percent of seats in each course are also reserved for differently-abled candidates. The university offers nine integrated programmes.

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“We have been conducting national-level entrance exams for our courses before CUET 2022 came into picture, therefore, it is not a big change for us. Like before, we are planning to conduct online counselling for students wherein every process will be done entirely except for verification of documents,” said K Tharanikkarasu, controller of examination, Pondicherry University.

Hyderabad University

Like PU, Hyderabad University which offers only integrated programmes is yet to finalise its admission policy. The admission criteria, according to Vice-Chancellor, B.J. Rao have been communicated to the NTA. “ We have been in talks with the NTA to decide our admission criteria. At the moment we are trying to bring our five-year integrated course at par with the UGC’s four-year undergraduate programme policy. The first three years of an integrated course are considered UG but now it has to follow a ‘4+1 model’. The last year of our integrated programme will become the first year of master's,” Rao told Careers360.

The university, however, is planning to conduct admission based on a combination of domain-specific subjects and the general aptitude test. “Asking students to write exams for the subjects they have already studied makes sense. Once they are admitted, they can choose any subjects they like. The finer details and the admission brochure for these courses is still in the works. It will be released soon for students,” said Rao.

The Central University of Gujarat will also offer admission to three courses based on CUET UG 2022. The university will grant admission to BA in German studies, BA in Chinese and a five-year integrated programme in social management. These courses are open to students of any stream.

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Central University of Karnataka

The merit list for courses like BSc physics, chemistry, and mathematics will be based on CUET scores in Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry. Depending on the subject taken in the third year by merit-cum choice, B.Sc.(Physics) or B.Sc. (Chemistry) degree will be awarded to students. Similarly, the merit list of B.Sc (Life Sciences and Geology) will be based on Physics, Chemistry, and Biology.

For courses like B.Sc Psychology and BA English, Geography, History, Economics, Social work and BBA, the merit list will be prepared based on the general test, section three of the CUET 2022 exam. Students will have to obtain 50 percent scores in these specific subjects in Class 12 exams. The university will allow five percent relaxation for Class 12 marks to students from OBC, SC, ST and PwD as well as Kashmiri migrant and non-migrant pandits.