The Delhi University announced its first cut-off list for admissions to undergraduate courses on 10 October 20, with the Lady Shri Ram (LSR) College fixing 100% for admission to honours courses in Political Science, Economics and Psychology.
This is after a gap of five years that colleges in DU have announced a cent per cent cut-off. In 2015, two colleges – College of Vocational Studies and Indraprastha College for Women – had fixed their cut-offs at 100% for BSc (Honours) in Computer Science.
Like the past few years, BA (Honours) in Political Science, English, History, and Psychology emerged as one of the most sought-after courses, with cut-offs in the 95-99% range. “There has been a growing interest towards liberal arts and humanities courses over the past few years. While choosing inter-disciplinary papers also, the applicants go for History and Political Science more often than Science subjects. Students feel there are more avenues of opportunities in Humanities. There is also a bilingual factor because students can attempt papers in Hindi for Humanities – an option not available for Science stream subjects,” said Anju Shrivastava, principal of Hindu College.
The cut-offs across colleges this year are 0.5-2 percentage points higher than the last year. In 2019, the highest cut-off was announced by Hindu College for BA (Honours) in Political Science at 99%.