DU Admission 2022: Over 59,000 secured admission so far; 14,000 seats vacant

NEW DELHI: A total of 59,401 students have secured admission to undergraduate programmes across Delhi University colleges through the three rounds of Common Seat Allocation System (CSAS). The third round of seat allocation in the university ended on November 17. Candidates will be able to apply for DU CSAS spot admission 2022 on the official website, admission.uod.ac.in, from today, November 21, 2022. Last date to apply for spot round is November 22 till 4:59 pm.

While over 2,000 students withdrew their admission, more than 14,000 seats are vacant, DU Dean of Admission Haneet Gandhi said. These seats will be filled up through spot rounds of seat allocation. "As many as 59,401 students have been admitted to Delhi University colleges. Over 14,000 seats are vacant. Over 2,000 students have withdrawn their admission. We have also issued a list of vacant seats for the first spot allocation round of CSAS (Common Seat Allocation System)," Gandhi told PTI.

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Candidates can apply for the first round of spot allocation from November 21 to November 22. The first spot allocation list will be released on November 23. The candidates can accept the allocated seats between November 24 and 26. The last date for online payment of admission fees is November 27.

After the declaration of the first spot admission round, the admission of all already admitted students will be locked and they will not be considered for upgrade, except supernumerary upgrades. The admitted students will not be allowed to withdraw their admissions on the announcement of the DU first spot admission 2022.

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The university will put out information about vacant seats under each programme and a candidate will be able to select only one programme. The allocations will be done according to availability of seats, programme-specific merit, order of preference of college and category.

There are 70,000 seats in the university's undergraduate programmes. In the third round of the CSAS, students were also admitted to all supernumerary quotas, including Extra Curricular Activities (ECA), sports, Children/Widows of Personnel of the Armed Forces (CW) and Kashmiri migrants. "As many as 1,001 students have been admitted through sports quota, 438 students in ECA and 1,372 in CW," Gandhi added said.

(with inputs from pti)