Class 10 Marks Introduced as New Tie-Breaker, Over 71,000 UG Seats Available

The most significant change this time is that Class 10 board marks will be taken as a tie-breaker for the students in case they are tied CUET and Class 12 marks. The Delhi University (DU) has begun the 2025-26 admission session, and the Common Seat Allocation System (CSAS) portal for UG admissions has opened.

One significant change in the process this year is that Class 10 board exam marks will act as a second tie-breaker if students are equal on CUET and Class 12 marks. Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Singh said that the admission portal has been upgraded with an auto-accept facility so that students will not lose seat allocations.

DU will offer 79 undergraduate courses in 69 colleges with 71,624 seats. The academic year will start from August 1.

The second round of UG admissions will begin after CUET results are announced. Application is now feasible on the basis of one language and three subjects or two languages and two subjects - whichever combination will give a better score shall be considered. The earlier requirement of obtaining at least 30% of marks in language subjects in order to apply for BSc (Hons) admission has been done away with.

DU had also invited application for skill-based courses at its Centre for Innovative Skill-Based Courses.

In the postgraduate department, 11,314 seats have been taken, and nearly 2,000 students have booked their seats in only the first two hours of notification. DU is running 82 postgraduate programs this year, with new programs such as MA in Tourism Management and MA in Hindi Journalism. They also plan to introduce an MA in Journalism under the English department.

The university has extended one-seat quota in every postgraduate programme to single-girl child candidates.

Apart from this, admission gates are now marginally open for five-year integrated law, BTech, and School of Open Learning (SOL) programmes. Most PG admissions at SOL will be done on the CUET score basis, but MBA, BLISc, MLISc, and PGDADLM programmes shall also have a merit-based process.