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DU Cutoff 2020 Updates

September 16: St. Stephens has released First Cutoff 2020 list. 99.25% for Eco (Hons). Check Here

Colleges under the Aegis of Delhi University have finally started releasing the DU Admission 2020 Cutoff. In its first for the year, the University has released DU Admission Cutoff for St. Stephan College in online mode. As the cutoff for St. Stephen's College and Jesus & Mary College is released prior to other colleges of Delhi University. It is expected that DU cutoff for the rest of Delhi University Colleges will begin to be out by October 12. 

Moreover, as per the official of Delhi University, Cutoff are going to be high for 2020 Admissions when almost double the number of candidates has scored more than 95% marks in the CBSE Class 12 Examination. In wake of such a situation, the first DU cutoff for St. Stephen College spiked to 99.25%. As the university has received a total of 2,85,128 admission applications, the cutoff for other colleges is also expected to reach a record high. 

Last Year, Delhi University had released a total of 8 cutoff lists for various Arts, Science and Commerce courses separately. For 2020 Admissions, the Cutoff lists will also be hosted on the university website. The constituent colleges too release their own cut-off score lists on the basis of the DU Cut-off.

Delhi University Cutoff Dates 2020 

What is DU Cutoff- Determining Factor?

Delhi University publishes Cutoff for admission to various Arts, commerce and science courses on its portal on the basis of class 12th Board Examination Result. However, various factors are responsible in order to determine DU Cutoff, which are mentioned below:

• Best Four Subjects: 
• Course/ Program:
• Total Number of Seats
• Number of Applications Received

The ‘Best of Four’ score is the aggregate of four top scores secured by candidates in their Board Examination. The program is also considered while preparing a cutoff. eg. courses like BA (Hons.) Economics and B.Com (Hons.) are high priority and generally have the highest of cutoffs.

The Cutoff list is released for admission to 62,000 seats of Delhi University across 91 participating colleges with names like St. Stephen’s College, Hindu College, Ramjas College, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Miranda House, Hans Raj College, Shri Ram College of Commerce, etc. topping the charts

St. Stephens Cutoff 2020

St. Stephens has released first round cutoff for BA (Hons.) History and BA (Hons.) Economics. For Eco hons. general category cutoff is 99.25% and for History Hons. it is 99%. You can check out the cutoff list in below images:

DU Expected Cutoff 2020

DU Expected Cutoff 2020 – Lady Irwin College 

Expected Cutoff for SGBT Khalsa College

DU Collegewise Cutoff 2020

Now, let us take a look at the process for admission, that follows the release of DU Cut-off.

Step I: Check DU Cut-Off list to ascertain eligibility in preferred college and program.

Step II: Login to the DU official website to access the Admission 2020 Application form for DU admission 2020, candidates need to login to the portal and select the course and college whose cut-off scores matches your scores.

Step III: Visit the selected college, physically for the document verification process as per schedule. The documents that will be required during the process are:

• Mark Sheets of Class 10th and 12th
• Certificate of Class 10th
• Certificate of Class 12th (Provisional Certificate in case the Original is yet to be issued)
• Transfer and Migration certificate
• Category Certificate (only for reserved category candidates)
• Two recent, passport-size self-attested photographs

Step IV: Post-Document verification process, you can complete the admission process by paying the DU Admission Fee.

In case, you wish to make changes in your college/ program preferences, once your admission process is complete, you need to:

• Cancel your application and pay the DU admission withdrawal fee.
• A print-out of the cancellation fee payment receipt has to be submitted at the concerned college and original certificates withdrawn from the said college.

Thereafter, you will have to go through the entire process of checking eligibility for your desired program and college, generating the DU application form for admission, getting documents verified, and finally paying the admission fees to get enrolled in a different college or program under DU. Please note, that only the balance (if any) admission fee will have to be paid by the candidates for the 2nd choice and any balance amount with the university will be refunded to the candidate’s bank account after the entire admission process of the university for the current academic session is complete.

DU Admissions Reservation 2020

Note:

• Candidates with 40% disability will have access to reserved seats. A medical certificate not older than 5 years, corroborating the disability will have to be submitted.

• Students from foreign countries have to apply directly to the Foreign Students Advisor at DU.

• Kashmiri migrants can avail of 10% relaxation in the last cut-off score fixed for the general category candidates.

• Select colleges reserve 50% of seats for certain communities.

• Seat Reservation for female candidates varies from college to college and also from course to course. However, the upper limit has been fixed at 3%.