DU Set to Limit FYUP 4th Year to Select Colleges
Sugandha Jha | 13 July 2026 | Times of India
New Delhi: Barely a year after rolling out the fourth year of its undergraduate programme, Delhi University is set to significantly recalibrate the implementation of its National Education Policy (NEP) mandated four-year degree, moving towards offering the additional year through select cluster colleges after low student uptake made the existing model difficult to sustain. A recommendation by Delhi University Principals' Association (DUPA) to identify these colleges is being viewed positively by the university, TOI has learnt. If the recommendation is accepted, the fourth year will no longer be offered by every DU college. Instead, identified colleges will host common batches comprising students from multiple colleges, significantly altering how the second batch of the four-year UG programme pursues the additional year.
"We are positively considering the recommendation. The idea is to avoid expenditure where student strength is too low. We also have to justify the resources being deployed. After all, these are public funds and must be utilised optimally," registrar Vikas Gupta told TOI.