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Over 12,000 Apply for Delhi University’s One-Year PG Programmes
Delhi University has started offering some postgraduate programmes that take one year.
For the 2026-27 session, 12,111 students applied for these programmes.
There are 5,857 places available across 46 programmes.
The applicants were students from the first four-year undergraduate batch.
These students began their undergraduate studies in 2022-23.
Out of 75,948 students in that batch, 35,943 continued to a fourth year.
Of those fourth-year students, 12,111 applied for the one-year postgraduate programmes.
The university said the new system is meant to reduce paperwork, repeated information, and manual mistakes in admissions.
University of Delhi received 12,111 applications for one-year postgraduate programmes for the 2026-27 academic session.
The programmes cover 46 subjects and offer 5,857 seats.
Applicants came from the first batch of four-year undergraduate programme students admitted in 2022-23.
Of 75,948 students admitted in that batch, 35,943 continued into the fourth year and 40,005 exited after three years.
The applicants represented 34.27% of students who continued into the fourth year, according to the university.
- Who
- 12,111 fourth-year students from the first four-year undergraduate batch at the University of Delhi.
- What
- They applied for admission to the university’s one-year postgraduate programmes.
- Where
- University of Delhi in Delhi.
- When
- For the 2026-27 academic session; the undergraduate batch began in 2022-23.
- Why
- The university said the move aims to reduce paperwork, duplication and manual errors in admissions.
Key facts
- Applications
- 12,111
- Academic session
- 2026-27
- One-year postgraduate programmes
- 46 programmes
- Available seats
- 5,857
- First FYUP batch admitted
- 2022-23
- Students continuing into fourth year
- 35,943
- Share applying among fourth-year students
- 34.27%











