Seats in several science courses, especially in the South campus and off-campus colleges, remain vacant despite the Delhi University (DU) admission process reaching the third round of seat allocation. College principals attributed the vacancies to delays in the admission process. They also said science students have a wider choice as they can elect commerce courses as well.
The colleges expect some of the vacancies to be filled by the third round. The varsity declared the third list of seat allocation on Sunday and students can accept the seats allocated by Tuesday.
At the end of the second round of allocations, over 61,500 students have taken admission to the university. In the third round, 16,231 seats for undergraduate programmes were allocated. As of 7 PM on Monday, 9,504 students accepted the college and courses allotted to them.
At Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, most seats in the commerce and arts departments have been filled with only one of two remaining vacant. However, vacancies in science courses are still in the double digits. Principal Hem Chand Jain told PTI that the college had 912 sanctioned seats and 748 students had confirmed their admission by paying the fees as of 3 pm.
Seats in the commerce and arts departments have been filled already, Jain said. "We are facing problems in filling seats in science courses even in the third round. However, we are hopeful that the majority of seats will be filled in this round," he said.
For BSc (Hons) courses at Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, 14 seats are vacant in Botany, 10 in Computer Science, 14 in Electronics, 19 in Mathematics and 22 in Physics. Eight and 12 seats are also vacant in Zoology and Life Sciences, respectively.
At off-campus Rajdhani College, the maximum vacancies are in Sanskrit and science courses, including Chemistry, Electronics, and Physics.
The college has 1,192 sanctioned seats and 900 have been filled by Monday night.