KOLKATA: Some of the top colleges in Kolkata have reported an encouraging number of admissions in the undergraduate courses, with some of them filling up a majority of the seats within 11 days of starting the admission process. Some principals said they were prepared for a few cancellations at a later stage and were keeping a “Plan B” ready for those students lower on the general merit list who are serious about taking admission.
Some of these colleges already have between 55% and 75% seats filled with 19 days left before first-semester UG classes start. In St Xavier’s College, there is no vacancy in any of the courses. In Goenka College, almost 86% seats are filled. In some other colleges, however, vacancies in courses like Sanskrit, Urdu, philosophy and Bengali honours are dragging down their aggregate performance in filling up the seats despite quick admissions in other courses.
“We do not have a single seat left in any of the courses this year. I am feeling bad because so many students with very good marks are mailing us with requests to admit them, but we are helpless. There is no seat left in any of the undergraduate courses this year,” said Reverend Father Dominic Savio, principal, St Xavier’s College.
In Goenka College of Commerce and Business Administration, only 72 out of 549 seats are vacant after three rounds of admission. “We think seats will fill up in the current round,” said a professor who is a part of the admissi-ons committee.
In Maulana Azad College, 805 seats out of 1,032 are taken. In most courses, the vacancies are less than 15.
After three rounds of admissions, 331 seats out of 619 have been taken in Lady Brabourne College. The maximum vacancies are in subjects like Bengali, Urdu and mathematics. “The trend is encouraging, but there might be some cancellations,” said principal Siuli Sarkar.
In Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, there are seven vacant seats in computer science, eight in economics, eight in English, four in history, three in microbiology, three in philosophy and nine in zoology. In Bethune College, 302 seats out of 557 are taken.
