Delhi University has released the CUET UG Phase 2 cut off for 2026, officially the “Second Round of Allocation and Admissions – Minimum Allocation Score.” If Round 1 didn’t work out for you, or you’re trying to figure out whether Round 3 will finally open the door to your preferred college, here’s what the official data says – no guesswork, no invented averages.
We went through the official DU Round 2 cut-off PDF, college by college and category by category, so you don’t have to.
What “Phase 2 cut off” actually means
DU stopped publishing a single cut-off percentage per college years ago, once CUET took over admissions. What you get now, every round, is a Minimum Allocation Score – the lowest CUET score at which someone actually got a seat in a given programme, college, and category, that round.
A few things follow from that:
- It isn’t a target you clear in advance. It’s a result – of how many people applied, how many seats existed, and how the merit list settled once Round 1 vacancies opened up.
- It moves every round because seats free up: people upgrade, withdraw, or simply don’t confirm.
- Round 2 numbers are almost always at or below Round 1 for the same programme, since Round 1 already took the highest scorers off the table.
So when people search “CUET Phase 2 cut off” or “DU second cut off,” what they really want to know is: what’s the lowest score that got someone a seat this time, and does that mean I still have a shot.
Category by category
DU’s Round 2 list carries nine columns: UR, OBC-NCL, SC, ST, EWS, Sikh (SGC), PwBD, Kashmiri Migrants, and Orphan (Female/Male). Some patterns hold across the sheet:
UR cut-offs for the usual high-demand honours programmes – Political Science, Psychology, History, Economics, Commerce Hons – at the top colleges are still in the 850–960 range in Round 2. OBC-NCL typically sits 80–150 points below UR in the same programme at the same college, and that gap narrows fast once you leave the popular subjects. SC cut-offs run another 50–100 points below OBC-NCL in most honours programmes, though for niche subjects like Sanskrit or the pure sciences the gap all but disappears – and in a few cases, as you’ll see below, it actually reverses. ST cut-offs often sit close to or overlap with SC, and for a lot of science and language programmes at smaller colleges there’s no ST entry at all, meaning nobody in that category qualified this round. EWS tracks close to the OBC-NCL band, sometimes a touch above, sometimes a touch below.
For science subjects with weaker applicant interest – Physics, Chemistry, Electronics, Instrumentation, Polymer Science – the minimum score across every category can fall as low as 100–300, even at colleges most people would call competitive. If you’ve been assuming every DU seat needs a near-perfect score, this is the part that should change your mind.
What are The Top colleges, UR category – Here is the List
| College | Programme | UR | OBC-NCL | SC | EWS |
| Hindu College | B.A. (Hons.) Political Science | 956.26 | 929.17 | 903.51 | 936.34 |
| Miranda House (W) | B.A. (Hons.) Political Science | 930.04 | 897.33 | 859.86 | 889.30 |
| Lady Shri Ram College (W) | B.A. (Hons.) Psychology | 936.03 | 846.54 | 857.47 | 851.17 |
| Hindu College | B.A. (Hons.) History | 908.80 | 883.19 | 825.83 | 900.24 |
| Kirori Mal College | B.A. (Hons.) Political Science | 904.71 | 877.58 | 822.63 | 878.39 |
| Hansraj College | B.Com. (Hons.) | 906.31 | 828.50 | 760.52 | 874.69 |
| Hindu College | B.Com. (Hons.) | 919.23 | 843.39 | 786.90 | 885.51 |
| Kirori Mal College | B.Com. (Hons.) | 902.16 | 823.02 | 752.28 | 870.54 |
| Daulat Ram College (W) | B.A. (Hons.) Psychology | 872.20 | 799.27 | 763.73 | 787.25 |
| Gargi College (W) | B.A. (Hons.) Applied Psychology | 863.58 | 719.30 | 727.94 | 749.00 |
| Kamala Nehru College (W) | B.A. (Hons.) Psychology | 856.27 | 718.71 | 700.24 | 736.38 |
| Aryabhatta College | B.A. (Hons.) Psychology | 844.50 | 715.71 | 697.64 | 708.86 |
(Scores taken directly from the official DU Round 2 Minimum Allocation Score list, July 2026.)
Political Science, Psychology, History, Economics, and Commerce Hons remain the hardest combinations to crack even after Round 1 vacancies opened up. Hindu College and Miranda House still post the highest UR minimums across several humanities programmes. And the gap between UR and SC/OBC-NCL is widest in exactly these flagship programmes – 100+ points – which is where you’ll see the most movement between rounds.
Where and Why the cut off is genuinely low
If your score is in the mid-to-low range, DU isn’t automatically out of reach. Look at these:
| College | Programme | UR | OBC-NCL | SC |
| Acharya Narendra Dev College | B.Sc. (Hons.) Chemistry | 288.70 | 198.85 | 126.17 |
| Deshbandhu College | B.Sc. (Hons.) Chemistry | 288.45 | 193.63 | 131.48 |
| Rajdhani College | B.Sc. (Hons.) Electronics | 252.06 | 162.87 | 48.72 |
| Bhaskaracharya College | B.Sc. (Hons.) Instrumentation | 224.76 | 120.01 | 59.26 |
| Dyal Singh College | B.Sc. (Hons.) Physics | 315.11 | 196.86 | 98.11 |
| Kalindi College (W) | B.Sc. (Hons.) Physics | 250.41 | 138.40 | 131.62 |
A score of 300 gets you nowhere near Political Science at Hindu College. The same score gets you a real shot at Chemistry or Electronics honours at several colleges. That’s the single most useful reframe if you’ve been Googling “minimum cut off for DU” and assuming one number covers the whole university.
An oddity worth flagging: Sanskrit where SC beats UR
Most of the sheet behaves the way you’d expect – UR highest, then EWS/OBC-NCL, then SC, then ST. Sanskrit at a couple of colleges breaks that pattern outright.
At Hansraj College, B.A. (Hons.) Sanskrit shows a UR minimum of 186.88 and an SC minimum of 335.36. The SC cut off is nearly 150 points higher than UR. Kirori Mal College shows the same thing for Sanskrit: UR at 220.87, SC at 286.64. In both cases the reserved-category minimum sits above the general-category one.
This isn’t a typo in the PDF – it’s a mechanical result of how few students apply for Sanskrit honours at all. When the applicant pool for a subject is that thin, the handful of UR applicants who do show up can get in on a modest score, while the SC quota still has to be filled from whoever applied under that category, and that group happened to score higher this round. It’s a good reminder that “reserved category cut-offs are always lower” is a rule of thumb, not a law – check the actual row for your programme rather than assuming the usual ordering holds.
Minority colleges look different on this sheet, and that’s not a decline
If you scan rows for St. Stephen’s College, Jesus & Mary College, Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College, Sri Guru Nanak Dev Khalsa College, or Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce, you’ll notice something odd: entire columns are blank for programmes where every other college has a full row.
St. Stephen’s B.A. (Hons.) Economics, for instance, lists UR, SC, EWS, PwBD, and Orphan-Female scores, but no OBC-NCL entry at all. Jesus & Mary’s B.A. (Hons.) History shows only UR and EWS. This isn’t missing data and it isn’t a sign these colleges are somehow shrinking – St. Stephen’s is a Christian minority institution and the Khalsa colleges and Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce are Sikh minority institutions, so their reservation structure doesn’t map onto the standard UR/OBC-NCL/SC/ST/EWS grid the same way non-minority colleges use. A blank cell in Round 2 usually means that category’s seats were already fully allotted in Round 1 and nobody vacated one, not that the seats don’t exist.
Worth knowing if you’re tracking one of these colleges specifically: don’t read a blank as “no chance.” It often means the opposite – that category is already closed out, and Round 3 movement there, if any, will show up in the categories that do still have numbers.
Round 1 vs Round 2, and why we won’t hand you a made-up percentage
Directionally, Round 2 scores sit at or below Round 1 for almost every programme, because Round 1 already went to the highest scorers and Round 2 only fills vacancies from withdrawals, upgrades, and no-shows. How much they drop varies enormously. High-demand courses at top colleges – Economics, Commerce, Psychology, Political Science – tend to dip only slightly, because there’s a deep bench of similarly-scoring applicants waiting. Niche combinations can fall 50 to 100-plus points because the applicant pool thins out fast once the top scorers are gone.
One honest limitation here: this analysis is built entirely from the Round 2 PDF. We don’t have the Round 1 sheet in front of us, so we can’t tell you which specific colleges or programmes saw an unusually sharp drop from Round 1 to Round 2 – that would mean comparing two documents we don’t both have, and any number we gave you for that would be a guess dressed up as data. If that comparison matters for your decision, the only reliable way to check it is to pull DU’s official Round 1 PDF and match it row by row against Round 2 for your exact programme and college. We’d rather tell you that plainly than invent an “average cut-off drop” figure, which DU itself doesn’t publish and which wouldn’t mean much aggregated across 900-plus rows with very different applicant pools anyway.
How much further can Phase 3 go?
A few things tend to determine Round 3 movement, going by how DU’s rounds have historically behaved:
Vacancy volume matters most – cut-offs fall further mainly where a meaningful number of Round 2 allottees don’t confirm, or leave for a better offer elsewhere and withdraw. Popular programmes barely move; seats in Political Science at Hindu or Psychology at LSR rarely go abegging. Less-preferred combinations and evening colleges are where you’re most likely to see a second real drop, sometimes by 50 to 150 points. Special-category seats – Sikh minority, PwBD, EWS, Kashmiri Migrants, Orphan – often shift the most between rounds simply because the applicant numbers in those categories are small, so one or two withdrawals move the minimum noticeably. And DU typically runs more rounds after this one, including spot rounds, which tend to open seats that stayed locked earlier – so if you’re just below a Round 2 cut off for a programme you actually want, staying in the process is reasonable rather than assuming the door’s shut.
Expect flat-to-slightly-lower cut-offs in the top honours programmes, and potentially real drops in niche programmes, evening colleges, and the smaller reserved categories – but check DU’s own Round 3 notification when it lands, since none of this can be predicted to the decimal.
A few quick answers
What is the CUET Phase 2 cut off for DU 2026?
There’s no single number – it depends on college, programme, and category. Check the official Round 2 PDF linked above for your exact combination.
What’s the minimum cut off in the general (UR) category? Top honours programmes at the marquee colleges still need 850-plus in Round 2. Several B.Sc. Honours and Programme courses elsewhere have UR minimums as low as 200–350.
What about OBC-NCL? Usually 80–150 points below the UR score for the same programme, narrowing a lot for low-demand science and language courses.
And SC? Generally below OBC-NCL, but the gap shrinks in less competitive courses – sometimes under 100 – and, as the Sanskrit example above shows, can occasionally sit above the UR score entirely.
Will Phase 3 be lower than Phase 2? In most programmes, yes, especially in less-preferred combinations and evening colleges. Highly competitive seats at top colleges may barely move.
Where’s the official Round 2 list? On the University of Delhi admissions portal, or via the official PDF linked above.
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