Most city colleges declared the second merit list for undergraduate (UG) degree courses on Friday. Cut-offs of popular courses offered by sought-after city colleges have seen only a slight drop, except science stream.
In Ramnarain Ruia College, BA course, which closed at 92 per cent in first merit list, dipped to 89 per cent in the second merit list. The cut-off for BSc course dropped to 40 per cent from 69.33 per cent in the first merit list.
At St. Xavier’s College, the cut-off for BA stream is 91.83 per cent in the second merit list, marginally lower than 92.33 per cent in the first merit list. But for BSc, the cut-off has dropped to 50 per cent from 65 per cent in the first merit list.
According to colleges, ongoing confusion over NEET and CET has stalled many students from taking decisions on science-allied courses. Principal of Ramnarain Ruia College Dr. Anushree Lokur said, “This is anyway a trend that pure science degree courses have lesser students. Generally, in science stream, students’ decision of degree admission depends a lot more on engineering and medical admissions. This year, due to confusion in that process, the cut-offs are lower than what we generally anticipate.”
Colleges are also seeing a smaller number of applications this year, which according to some of them has resulted in lower cut-offs in second merit list for a few. While generally popular city colleges see seats getting filled by the end of the second merit list, some of them fear that more lists will come out as the seats will remain vacant.
Commerce and allied courses too are facing a similar confusion this year with no clarity on Common Entrance Test (CET) for admission to Bachelor of Management Studies (BMS).
“This is a very popular course under commerce stream. Students are waiting for the CET result to be out, hoping that due to delayed results colleges which are offering BMS will have seats to cater to all. Generally, these students apply for traditional BCom or other professional courses while trying their luck for BMS,” said Dr Lokur.
Additionally, some colleges from the city also feel that many students are unaware that they have to fill the admission application form of individual colleges too.
Students are expected to fill a form for registration with the university. “Many may be confused that one form is enough for the admission,” said Dr Lokur adding that the university should continue the registration while also creating awareness that students have to fill admission forms with colleges too.
While most popular city colleges affiliated to Mumbai University declared their second merit list on Friday, K C and HR College which are under HSNC private university declared their third-merit list on Friday.
