Three Years on, CUET Has Diminished Universities
Abha Dev Habib and Saikat Ghosh | 05 June 2025 | The Indian Express
A few years ago, summers at Delhi University (DU) would witness a festive clamour of students and parents visiting colleges to check out the infrastructure, meet faculty members, and submit their applications for admission to undergraduate courses. The demand was such that in many popular courses, despite the soaring cut-offs, admissions would close with the first list.
How things have changed. Now it takes multiple “mop-up” rounds to complete admissions and the process goes on months after the start of classes. An RTI response shows that on average, 5,000 seats have remained vacant in every admission year since the introduction of the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) in 2022…