DU receives 82,940 registrations for UG admissions 2026-27
The University of Delhi has received around 82,940 registrations for undergraduate admissions for the 2026-27 academic session through its Common Seat Allocation System (CSAS) as of Tuesday evening, officials said. The university commenced the first phase of registrations on June 26 for candidates who appeared in CUET-UG 2026 and wish to seek admission to its colleges.
Alongside the continuing registration process, the university will announce revised combinations for multiple BA programmes within the next two to three days, Dean of Admissions Haneet Gandhi said. The combinations will be declared alongside the commencement of the second phase of undergraduate admissions. The revision was decided in a data-driven effort to fix chronically low seat occupancy in courses such as Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Bengali, and Telugu by pairing them with subjects that attract stronger student interest.
Gandhi said the revised combinations are based entirely on analysis of admission patterns over recent years. “We are going to make some changes in the BA programme combinations, as some of the combinations will be revised. We have analysed the data and trends from the last few years. The decision is completely data-driven. The information will be released within this week, along with the start of the second phase,” she said.
Explaining the logic behind the exercise to The Pioneer, Gandhi offered a specific example of how subject pairing affects enrolment. She said if a subject like Urdu is offered in combination with Mathematics, fewer students opt for it, but if Mathematics is replaced with Political Science, a subject that draws far greater interest among undergraduate applicants, admission numbers for Urdu Honours are likely to rise as a result of being bundled with a more popular discipline. “We will completely look into the data and then decide the combination. We will try different combinations. The purpose is to increase the admission numbers in courses which normally interest fewer students,” Gandhi said.
She clarified that the degree awarded will remain unchanged regardless of how combinations are revised. “However, the honours will be awarded as earlier. We will only change combinations of undergraduate courses,” she said. The new combinations will be declared within two to three days, she added.
The exercise follows the recommendations of a university committee constituted earlier to examine ways of improving seat-fill rates in undergraduate programmes through restructuring of BA discipline combinations.
Among the panel’s key recommendations was that colleges reassess existing combinations and merge low-demand subjects with more popular disciplines to improve enrolment, along with a specific suggestion that languages with consistently low admissions, even at established on-campus colleges and departments, be paired with another discipline within a single BA programme.
Admissions to 73 undergraduate programmes and more than 100 BA programme combinations across 67 colleges will continue to be based solely on candidates’ CUET-UG 2026 scores, subject to programme-specific eligibility criteria set by the university. Candidates are required to register on the CSAS portal using their CUET-UG 2026 application number.
After completing initial registration, candidates will move into the second phase of CSAS, where they will submit their preferences for programme and college combinations. During this phase, candidates will also be required to map their CUET-UG test papers against the subjects they studied in Class 12. The university said only language and domain-specific CUET papers corresponding to subjects passed in Class 12 will be considered for determining programme eligibility and calculating scores.
Based on this mapping, the university will determine which programmes each candidate is eligible for before inviting preferences for programme and college combinations.
The schedule for the second phase of CSAS is expected to be announced this week, the university said.
