DU Admission 2022: CSAS round-1 seat allotment ends with 72,865 seats claimed

NEW DELHI: University of Delhi (DU) common seat allocation system (CSAS) round-1 ended today, October 22, 2022. A total of 72,865 candidates accepted their seat allotments as per the university data. Candidates can pay their admission fee online till 5PM on October 24, 2022 on DU's official website- admission.uod.ac.in.

"Over 72,800 candidates out of 80,164 have accepted the college and course allotted to them in Delhi University's first round of allocations," said DU registrar Vikas Gupta

The college will verify, approve online applications and send confirmations to the candidates by October 23, 2023. The candidates who accepted their seat allotment in the DU CSAS round-1 and pay their admission fee will be considered for upgradation in the subsequent rounds, if applicable. Only these candidates will have the window for 'upgrade, re-ordering the higher preference' for round 2 of CSAS from 5 PM on October 25, 2022 till 4:50 PM on October 27, 2022.

The DU second merit list will be released on October 30, 2022. The candidates will have a window from October 31 to November 1, 2022 to accept their allocated seats. DU will also be opening a mid-entry window for UG programmes from November 5 to November 7, 2022 during CSAS round-3. The classes for 2022-23 academic year will begin on November 2, 2022.

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According to the Delhi University, the candidates who apply for CSAS mid-way will not have an option to claim the seats allocated to candidates who had applied during the initial application phases. The allocation of seats to these candidates will be considered for the next rounds and is subject to fulfillment of eligibility criteria, availability of seats among other factors. There will also be no option to 'upgrade' seats for candidates who apply for mid-entry.

The number of seats across DU colleges is 70,000, but the varsity has allocated extra seats in unreserved (OBC-NCL and EWS) and reserved (SC, ST and PWBD) categories in the first list, taking the number to 80,164. DU recently announced the rejection of reserved category candidates in seat allocation for CSAS round-1 who did not submit their category certificates according to the university's prescribed format. These candidates will be considered for the unreserved seats in CSAS round-2

-Inputs from PTI