EXCLUSIVE | Delhi University rolls out new digital UG, PG

Delhi University said the move is aimed at reducing paperwork, duplication and manual errors in the admission process

For the first time, Delhi University will introduce automatic digital integration of students’ personal details and CUET scores in both undergraduate and postgraduate admissions this year, The Indian Express has learnt.

The university said the move is aimed at reducing paperwork, duplication and manual errors in the admission process. DU also opened postgraduate admissions on Saturday, marking the first full rollout of the postgraduate system envisioned under the National Education Policy (NEP).

The digital integration, being rolled out through the government’s DigiLocker and API Setu platforms, will allow key student information — including names, dates of birth, gender, category, parents’ names and Common University Entrance Test (CUET) scores — to be automatically fetched into the admission portal instead of requiring applicants to repeatedly upload documents or manually fill in forms.

In a statement issued Saturday, the university said the digital integration was part of the government’s larger “Digital India vision”, describing it as a “secure, scalable, and citizen-focused digital identity solution” that would reduce “the hassle of managing duplicate data”, strengthen “data security”, and create “a uniform authentication mechanism for Government services”.

The university also acknowledged the role of the National Testing Agency (NTA) in “integrating the students’ information on the national registry and extending it to universities securely”.

This year, DU will, for the first time, offer two distinct postgraduate pathways under the NEP framework — a one-year Master’s programme and a two-year Master’s programme.

For those opting for two-years Master’s: Admissions to the two-year postgraduate programmes will continue through the university’s Common Seat Allocation System (CSAS), with allocations based “solely on the scores obtained in CUET (PG)-2026”, according to the admission notice.

Students currently in either the third or fourth year of their undergraduate programmes will be eligible to apply, provided they meet programme-specific eligibility conditions and have appeared for the relevant CUET-PG paper.

The university said registrations for the two-year postgraduate programmes would begin on May 16 and close at 11.59 pm on June 7.

Candidates belonging to SC, ST and PwBD categories will have to pay an application fee of Rs 100 per programme, while applicants from UR, OBC-NCL and EWS categories will pay Rs 250 per programme.

The registration portal for admissions has been hosted on the university’s postgraduate admissions website.

For those opting for one-years Master’s: The university also announced that admissions to the one-year postgraduate programmes would be conducted separately through another portal to be launched later.

Under the NEP-based structure, only Delhi University students pursuing a four-year Bachelor’s Honours degree with Research or Entrepreneurship, or those completing a four-year Bachelor’s degree with a major in the relevant subject, will be eligible for the one-year Master’s track, subject to other conditions.

EXCLUSIVE | Delhi University rolls out new digital UG, PG admission system linked to NTA. Here’s how it works

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