Amid the increasing demand of students applying for foreign universities and preparation of the International English Language Testing System(IELTS), Patiala’s Punjabi University reversing the trend of constant declining in admissions has witnessed a 15% spike in admissions than last year.
Thanks to its introduction of the inter and multi-disciplinary components, the university witnessed this surge in the admissions during one of its recent sessions of counselling of students for applying into undergraduate courses.
The Department of Higher Education informed about the demand to have increased.
As per a report, nearly 3000 aspirants applied for the 807 seats in the university comprising different subjects and fields, which was around 400 more than in comparison to the last year applications.
This year applications of 482 applicants were received for 167 seats of mathematics and computer science, last year the applications received were 358.
372 aspirants applied for physical and chemical sciences for 100 seats this year, 62 more than what it was last year.
In social sciences and biological sciences 978 applications and 248 applications were received this year for 190 seats and over 100 seats respectively against 902 applications and 226 applications that the university received last year for the respective courses.
In civil and mechanical engineering 51 students and 71 students have applied for the admission respectively by depositing the fee. In the same courses, last year there were only 29 students who had taken admission in civil engineering and only 42 for mechanical engineering.
The univeristy says more admissions are likely to happen after the next round of counselling for the undergraduate courses.
The Vice Chancellor of the Punjabi University hailed the Bhagwant Mann led Punjab government for its efforts to restore the institution’s ailing financial crisis and further said the university is planning to increase the seat count in few of the courses.
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