DU Admission 2025: Dominance of Commerce and Arts! Seats of many Science courses remained vacant in the first round.

DU Admission 2025: There was a huge demand for Commerce and Arts courses in the first list of Delhi University (DU) Admission 2025. Seats in subjects like BCom and Political Science were filled rapidly, while hundreds of seats in courses like Zoology, Physics of Science stream remained vacant. See details here.

DU Admission 2025 in Hindi: Delhi University (DU) released the first round UG seat allotment list based on CUET-UG on 19 July 2025. 93,166 seats were allotted for a total of 71,624 seats. This clearly shows that the popularity of the Commerce and Arts stream in DU was tremendous, while a large number of seats are left in Science courses. Know about DU Admission 2025 and admission in top courses in detail here.

DU Admission 2025: Commerce and Arts

BCom (Hons) was the most chosen course, which was chosen by about 48,336 students as the first choice.

This was followed by BA (Hons) Political Science, which became the first choice of about 15,295 students.

BSc (Hons) Zoology came third in this race, which was chosen by 12,722 students. This is the first time that Zoology has overtaken English Hons.

DU Admission 2025: Seats in Science Courses

The cutoffs for top science courses like BSc Zoology, Physics, Mathematics are generally between 834 to 678 which is much lower than the Humanities courses. Most of the Science courses saw vacant seats in the initial stage itself, which often get filled only in the next round. Science and Commerce hybrid courses like Statistics and Economics also proved difficult for Science students, as most Science students are busy preparing for NEET/JEE. Due to this, low applications and high competition have become an issue of vacant seats in Science subjects.

DU Admission 2025: What is the future status?

About 86 percent of the seats have been filled in the first round and more than 62,000 students accepted the seat. Apart from this, preparations are on for the second round for the vacant seats. DU released the list of vacant seats on July 24, the time for changing the option was kept from July 24–25 and the second seat list will be released on July 28. Students will get a chance to accept or upgrade their seat. This option is important for those students who are hoping to upgrade to a high cutoff course in Science.