Over 1.29 lakh apply for post graduate programmes in Delhi University

NEW DELHI: Over 1.29 lakh candidates have applied for post-graduate, master’s-level programmes in 69 courses and 51 different departments. Of these 1,02,667 are general category applicants. For research programmes – MPhil and PhD – there are 7,276 applicants, for 85 courses and 53 departments.

This is the first time DU will conduct entrance tests in centres other than Delhi. Among the centres in six cities, Delhi still has the highest number of applicants for PG as well as research – 68,349 and 6,262. For PG, the second highest number of applicants came from Uttar Pradesh (21,749); followed by Haryana (15,179) and Bihar (4,111)

In research, the second is Varanasi, with 491 applicants. Among research programmes, Hindi has the highest number of applications in both Mphil and Phd(694 and 392). In MPhil, political science is second (389) and in PhD, mathematics.

Women applicants outnumber their male counterparts by a wide margin at both levels. For PG, 71,878 women have applied, against 57,168 men. 4,140 women sought admission into the research programmes and 3,148 men.

For the six undergraduate programmes, admission into which is regulated through entrance tests, there are 54,834 applicants – 30,221 women and 24,632 men. Four candidates from “other gender” have applied too. The maximum number of applications are for BE/BBA (business economics/ Bachelors in Business Administration) – 22,884 – followed by the B.El.Ed (Bachelor in Elementary Education) – 10,823. Once again, Delhi has the higher number of applications – 50,013.