Now Universities can conduct their own entrance test to fill the seats are vacant after the CUET UG counselling round. The UGC has released the SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) regarding this.
The purpose of this SOP is that . “Keeping the seats vacant for an entire academic year is not only a waste of resources but also results in denial of quality higher education to many students who aspire to pursue higher studies in central universities,” the notice read.
UGC chairman M Jagadesh Kumar stressed the need to fill all seats as keeping the vacant will waste resources and all efforts to be made to ensure that students are offered admission in your university so that no seat is left unfilled.”
UGC chairman said that CUET scores should be the “primary criteria” for admitting students and that UGC has already written to all central universities to admit students through CUET.
Leaving the seat vacant in central university is denial of quality higher education to many students who aspire to pursue higher education in central universites
The CUET scores will be the primary criterion for admissions, with flexibility for universities to relax subject-specific criteria. If still the seats are vacant after final round a university can conduct its entrance test and admit students on the basis of qualifying exam marks.
It is also notable that some students may not have opted that specific college for the courses they may also be considered.
The Commission said that the “entire admission process has to be based on merit and transparency” and that “the reservation roster shall apply for admission to courses/programmes in all cases.”
Universities are required to ensure the “timely completion of the entire admission process so that no student faces any kind of academic loss.”
The universities are better who conduct their own entrance test along with CUET. These universities include IPU,Jamia,AMU
This UGC in June had also announced bi-annual admissions, asking the universities to conduct two cycles of admissions in a year. The two admission cycles will be July-August and January-February in 2024-25