Delhi University colleges will witness more seats available in popular honours course this year

Updated on: Tuesday, March 26, 2013

There will be more seats in popular honours courses across Delhi University colleges during this year's admissions, which is likely to lead to a marginal dip in cutoffs.

This is a fallout of the university deciding to scrap the BA/BCom/BSc programmes (earlier known as pass courses) and allowing colleges to distribute these seats in other courses. The feedback from many colleges is that courses for which there is high demand would get the maximum increase in seats.

These colleges include St Stephen's, Hindu, Hansraj, Lady Shri Ram, Miranda House, Sri Venkateswara, Gargi and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya. The move is expected to benefit high scorers, who often do not get the course they want in the college of their choice.

Some colleges are also expected to introduce new honours courses for which DU will soon write to the colleges inviting proposals.

According to university officials, the BA programme had 11,075 seats and the BCom programme around 7,000. BCom (honours) currently has around 5,000 seats and a majority of the BCom programme seats are expected to be added to the honours courses, making it one of the largest in terms of intake.

Other honours streams likely to see a jump in seats are Economics, English, Physics, Chemistry, Zoology, Botany, Mathematics, Political Science and History, among a few others.

St Stephen's College offers 10 undergraduate courses of which two were BA and BSc programmes. The seats for these courses will be distributed among the eight honours courses based on faculty strength and laboratory facilities of the departments.

A few colleges are likely to express interest in introducing honours courses. "We will propose to start an honours course in mathematics. Based on faculty strength and facilities, intake in courses such as microbiology, physics, chemistry, zoology, political science, psychology, philosophy, history and English are likely to be enhanced," said Shashi Tyagi, officiating principal of Gargi College.

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Colllege has already approached the university with a request to introduce an economics (honours) course.

"Many colleges don't have honours courses among subjects offered in the BA programme. The distribution of the seats will also allow them to introduce honours courses in case they have the required faculty strength and facilities," said Virender Bhardwaj, who is in the nine-member expert committee working on admission policy of the university.

Delhi University colleges will witness more seats available in popular honours course this year

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