Online admission process starts for PU UG courses

PATNA: The online submission of application forms for admission to the undergraduate courses of Patna University (PU) in the new academic session (2021-22) commenced on Sunday. A good number of boys and girls submitted their applications on the first day of the opening of the admission portal.
PU students’ welfare dean Anil Kumar told this newspaper that under the university management information system (UMIS) introduced for the first time this year, all the admission related works, right from submission of applications to the payment of admission charges, would be done online. Students applying for admission to courses in regular or self-financing mode and in different colleges of PU would have to fill up only one form, indicating their choice of institution and course.
The last date for online submission of forms is August 20. As the university has decided to do away with the practice of holding entrance test for undergraduate courses this year, the admission is likely to be completed within a month, said Kumar.
There are as many as 3500 seats in arts, science and commerce streams in all the PU colleges, except Patna Women’s College which admits students on its own. There are 1650 seats (600 each in Patna College and B N College and 450 in Magadh Mahila College) in arts streams, whereas there are altogether 650 seats (400 in Vanijya Mahavidyalaya and 250 in Magadh Mahila College under self-financing scheme) in commerce stream. Besides, in the faculty of science, there are altogether 1206 seats, including 600 in Patna Science College, 350 in B N College and 256 in Magadh Mahila College.
The College of Art and Crafts conducts four-year degree courses in painting, applied art, sculpture, photography and graphics for the class XII passouts.
The three-year degree vocational courses running in different colleges of PU are Functional English (Patna College and B N College), BCA (B N College, Patna Science College, Magadh Mahila College and Directorate of Distance Education), BBA (Patna College, B N College, Magadh Mahila College), Biotechnology (Patna Science College and B N College), Mass Communications (Patna College), Environmental Science (Patna Science College), Social Work (Magadh Mahila College) and gemmology (B N College).