Colleges in Mumbai have released their cut-off list yesterday, i.e. Thursday evening and are slightly higher than last year in most courses. The commerce stream continues to provide most sought-after courses.
St. Xavier’s College announced the first cut-off for humanities streams to rise to 98% for non-state board students. Bachelor in Accounting Finance (BAF) has the highest cut-off than all courses with Jai Hind College at 96%. KC College too has set the cut-off for this course as high as 94%.
Hemlata Bagla, principal of KC College, said that cut-offs for most courses, particularly the ones in the Commerce stream, were a per cent or two higher than the previous year. The BAF cut-off at Jai Hind was 95.2 per cent and at KC was 93.2 per cent last year.
“The competition was tough in the self-financed courses such as BAF and Bachelor of Financial Management (BFM). More candidates have applied for these courses, driving up the cut-offs. Last year, the Bachelor in Banking and Insurance course was more in demand,” said Bagla.
Bachelors of Science-Biotechnology has seen a dip in the cut-off percentage, and hence, will be easier to get into. Ancy Jose, principal of Nagindas Khandwala College, said the BSc IT honours course also saw a dip in cut-offs as the number of applications went down.
The Commerce stream continues to be the most sought-after. At Jai Hind, BCom cut-off percentage rests at 94 per cent, slightly lower than last year’s. At Mithibai, the cut-off for the course is 90 per cent.
At Xavier’s,Humanities courses cut-offs was capped at 92.46 per cent for state board students. It’s BSc course cut-off for non-biological subjects caught hold at 90 per cent.
Ashok Wadia, Jai Hind Principal, says that the cut-offs were mostly driven by the applications received and the highest scorer applying for the course. “The candidate applying for BA courses at our college has the highest score of 98 per cent, pulling the cut-offs up,” said Wadia, adding that the popularity of courses too defined the merit list.
Bagla says that since the University of Mumbai’s admission process allowed candidates to apply for multiple courses at a time, the cut-offs go higher. “Candidates need not be worried because of the high cut-offs. After the first round of admissions, most toppers will take admissions, and the cut-offs will drop significantly,” she said.