Most colleges in Delhi University closed admission in popular courses in the second cut-off list. However, the cut-off for honours in botany, physics, chemistry and zoology was slashed by two to four per cent on the average.
The second cut-off for botany at Hans Raj College is 86 per cent, down from 92 per cent in the first list.
Hans Raj College principal V.K. Kawatra said, “With the introduction of B.Tech. courses in DU, many students are opting for it as they get an engineering degree, so the cut-off for honours in science courses has seen a dip.”
Colleges like Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma, Ramanujan, I.P., Maharaja Agrasen, Maitreyi, PGDAV, Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, SGGS College of Commerce, Acharya Narendra Dev, Kalindi have closed its admissions in computer science.
DU is claiming that the new computer science degree is equivalent to IIT’s B.Tech. in computer science.
Many off campus colleges have closed admissions for history, political science, sociology, commerce and economics. Bharti College closed admissions for english and economics while College of Vocational Studies closed admissions to its English and history courses.
DDU College closed admissions for commerce whereas seats have filled up in Dyal Singh (morning) for commerce, economics, history, political science, chemistry, zoology and mathematics.
Similarly admissions have been closed for several courses in PGDAV (morning and evening), Khalsa, Aurobindo, Zakir Hussain, Ram Lal Anand, Satyawati, Shaheed Bhagat Singh.
Hindu College has closed admissions in zoology, while seats are full at Kirori Mal College in history, geography and political science.
The cut off in commerce for Hindu College at 96.75-99.75 remained unchanged in the second list. Similarly, Hansraj has maintained 96.75-98.75 per cent cut off in commerce.
Gargi College has closed admissions in commerce, economics, English, Hindi, political science and philosophy, while Lady Shri Ram College closed admissions in political science, and Miranda House in history, sociology, physics and zoology.
Maitreyi College has closed admission in English, political science, sociology, botany and Kamla Nehru in commerce, English, history and political science.