01-06-2025
Over 61,000 confirm admissions in first round of admissions through GCAS portal
As the first round of the first phase of admissions to various undergraduate (UG) programmes through the Gujarat Common Admission Services (GCAS) portal for academic year 2025-26 was completed on Saturday, 61,540 students have confirmed their admissions against a total intake of 4,71,710 seats for UG programmes across 13 public universities in Gujarat. The GCAS, the online admission process of the state government, is in its second year.
However, 3,81,046 admission offers have been made to verified students that also include more than one offers to one student. The second round of admissions will commence from Tuesday.
'Universities were earlier offering admissions through a centralised admission system, in which, the university would prepare a single merit list and offer admission to a student in only one programme based on merit from the list of all colleges and programmes of their choice. As a result, a student was offered admission in only one college programme. However, this year, these unversities are offering admissions through a decentralised admission system, under which, all colleges affiliated to the university prepare their own merit list and offer admissions to students who have chosen programmes offered by the respective college, as per merit. Therefore, a student gets admission offers from more than one college programme (major subject) based on their merit,' eucation department officials, who are supervising the GCAS, stated.
In the case of a decentralised admission system, students higher in merit get more offers during the initial rounds. However, as the rounds progress, students lower in merit end up getting offers too. Thus the admission figures in the later rounds are higher than the initial ones.
The next three rounds of the first phase will be held over two days each. As students receive more admission offers, more admissions will be confirmed. Approximately 60 to 70 per cent of the seats are estimated to be filled by the end of the first phase of admissions.
'Additionally, around 70,000 students are going to appear for the Class 12 supplementary examination, and these students will be included in the subsequent phases of admissions after their results are declared,' officials added.
The online application and verification process is in progress for the first phase of admissions to postgraduate level programmes — which have already been declared. As per the GCAS schedule, students must get their applications verified before June 10. Students who have submitted applications and wish to apply to Gujarat University programmes can modify their choices by June 7.
