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DU CUET third round cutoff 2026 compared with previous year cutoff for Delhi University admission

DU CUET third round cutoff 2026: how much the cutoff dropped, and what to check next

Delhi University published its Round 3 minimum allocation score list on 8 August 2026, and the official PDF went up on the admission portal the next day. If you have been refreshing admission.uod.ac.in all week wondering whether the DU third round cutoff finally dropped enough to get you a seat, this piece works through the actual numbers from that list, college by college, stream by stream, instead of guessing.

We pulled every figure below directly from DU’s own document, titled “Third Round of Allocation and Admissions, Minimum Allocation Score,” which lists 956 college-programme combinations across roughly 65 constituent colleges and university departments. Where we compare Round 3 against Round 2, we are only using rows where the same programme and college appear in both official lists, so the comparison is real, not estimated.

Quick facts before you read further

DetailFigure
Round 3 result declared8 August 2026
Official Round 3 PDF published9 August 2026
Fee payment deadline for Round 313 August 2026, 11:59 PM
Total programme-college rows in the Round 3 sheet956
Highest score recorded anywhere in Round 3921.45 (B.A. Hons. Sociology, Hindu College)
Lowest score recorded anywhere in Round 39.90 (B.Sc. Hons. Chemistry, Zakir Husain Delhi College, a thin reserved category)
Biggest single-round drop we could verifyAround 167 points (B.Com. Hons., Kirori Mal College, Round 2 to Round 3)

What the DU third round cutoff actually is

DU stopped publishing a single admission percentage per college once CUET took over. What you get today, every round, is a minimum allocation score: the lowest normalised CUET score at which a real candidate was actually allotted a seat in a specific programme, college, and category, in that round.

A few things follow directly from that definition.

It is a result, not a target. Nobody clears a “third round cutoff” the way people used to clear a 12th-standard percentage cutoff. The number only exists after the round runs, once DU sees who accepted, who upgraded out, and who never confirmed.

It moves every round because the seat pool itself moves. Some candidates freeze their Round 1 or Round 2 seat and leave the system entirely. Others upgrade to a higher preference, which frees up their earlier seat. A few simply never show up to confirm, and their seat goes back into circulation. Round 3 numbers reflect all of that churn.

The official document also carries a specific disclaimer worth repeating here, because it matters for how you should read this article: DU states plainly that Round 3 minimum allocation scores are independent of the scores from Round 1 and Round 2. That is DU’s own way of saying the categories, tie-break rules, and eligible pool can shift between rounds, so a straight row-by-row comparison, while informative, is not a guaranteed apples-to-apples read.

One structural detail about the sheet itself: DU lists scores in a fixed column order across eleven possible categories, UR, OBC-NCL, SC, ST, EWS, Sikh, PwBD, Kashmiri Migrant, SGC, Orphan Female, and Orphan Male, and it simply skips any category that already had every seat filled in an earlier round. So when a row shows only one number, that is almost always the UR (general) score, since UR is the leftmost column and the one most likely to still have movement. When a row shows several numbers, they are listed left to right in that same fixed order, though DU does not repeat the header on every row of the extracted table. For the exact category label on a multi-score row, the safest move is to open the official PDF directly.

When DU released the round 3 cutoff, and what comes with it

StageDate (2026)
Round 1 allotment16 July
Round 2 allotment25 July
Upgrade allocation and Round 1 Ward Quota result1 August
Mid-Entry and correction window3 to 5 August
Round 3 allotment declared8 August
Official Round 3 PDF published9 August
Round 1 of CW, ECA and Sports allocation9 August
Round 3 fee payment deadline13 August, 11:59 PM

DU calculated the Round 3 numbers using candidate data as it stood on 5 August, which is why the Mid-Entry window closing just three days before the Round 3 result is not a coincidence. Anyone who registered late through Mid-Entry became part of the pool that Round 3 was allocated against.

How to check your own DU third round result

Go to admission.uod.ac.in, not du.ac.in, which is the university’s general site and carries no allotment information. Log in with the same CUET application number and password you used for CSAS registration. Your dashboard shows whether you have a fresh allotment this round, and if you already held a seat from Round 1 or Round 2 with an upgrade request pending, it shows whether that upgrade came through.

Two things trip students up here every year. First, your result is tied to your personal login, not a single public merit list, so a shared screenshot of someone else’s cutoff tells you nothing about your own seat. Second, if you already froze a seat in an earlier round, Round 3 does not touch you at all, since a frozen seat takes you out of further allocation.

How much did the cutoff actually drop this round

This is the question most people searching “DU third round cutoff” actually want answered, so here are real, verified examples rather than an invented average.

CollegeProgrammeRound 2 UR scoreRound 3 UR scorePoints dropped
Kirori Mal CollegeB.Com. (Hons.)902.16735.50~167
Daulat Ram College (W)B.A. (Hons.) Psychology872.20850.30~22
Hansraj CollegeB.Com. (Hons.)906.31896.63~10
Aryabhatta CollegeB.A. (Hons.) Psychology844.50839.04~5

The pattern here matches what the seat-math would predict. B.Com. (Hons.) at Kirori Mal College saw a genuinely large drop, which usually means a meaningful number of Round 2 allottees at that college upgraded out to a different college or programme, or withdrew from CSAS altogether, opening real vacancy for Round 3. Psychology Honours at Aryabhatta and Daulat Ram, by contrast, barely moved, because the applicant pool for Psychology stays deep even after two rounds of allocation.

Do not treat a 5-point drop and a 167-point drop as two versions of the same trend. They are two different stories about two different seat matrices, and the only way to know which story applies to your programme is to check that exact row in the official PDF.

If you are hunting for last year’s Round 3 numbers to compare against, we are not going to hand you a figure we have not verified. DU does not keep a single easy archive page for prior-year rounds, and pulling one CUET cycle’s numbers against a different cycle’s numbers without matching methodology produces a comparison that looks precise and is not. If that comparison genuinely matters for your decision, the University of Delhi’s admission portal does retain older notices, and that is the only reliable source for it.

Why Hindu College, Miranda House and Kirori Mal barely appear for the biggest programmes

Here is something the raw sheet shows clearly once you go looking for specific rows: B.A. (Hons.) Political Science does not appear at all for Hindu College, Miranda House, or Kirori Mal College in the Round 3 list. Neither does B.A. (Hons.) History for Hindu College or Miranda House, and neither does B.A. (Hons.) Psychology for Lady Shri Ram College.

That is not a data gap. It means every seat in every category for those specific programmes at those specific colleges was already allotted and accepted by the end of Round 2, with nobody vacating a seat since. A programme with zero rows in the Round 3 sheet has zero vacancy this round, full stop.

What that means practically: if your target combination is one of DU’s genuinely top-demand programmes at its most recognised colleges, Round 3 is not where you should be watching. The movement this round, for programmes like Political Science and History, is happening one tier down, at colleges that still have real applicant depth but not the absolute ceiling demand of Hindu or Miranda House.

Commerce Honours follows the same pattern. Ramjas College and Hindu College both show zero rows for B.Com. (Hons.) in Round 3, meaning that seat is fully closed at both colleges. Where Commerce Honours does still show Round 3 movement, Hansraj College at 896.63, Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College at 872.18, and Shaheed Bhagat Singh College at 868.52, the scores stayed high, because Commerce Honours demand runs deep across nearly every category, not just at the very top of the list.

DU third round cutoff 2026 for Political Science, college by college

Since Hindu College, Miranda House and Kirori Mal have no Round 3 vacancy for B.A. (Hons.) Political Science, here is where the actual Round 3 movement for this programme is happening. Figures below are the score(s) DU listed for each college this round, highest first; a college with more than one number had more than one category still open.

CollegeRound 3 score(s)
Ramjas College869.45, 746.83
Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College851.69
Shaheed Bhagat Singh College793.38
Aryabhatta College791.98, 721.48, 597.45
Lady Shri Ram College for Women707.96
Kalindi College (W)556.18, 343.16, 231.68
Vivekananda College (W)543.04, 265.59, 171.34
Zakir Husain Delhi College (Evening)622.75, 450.36, 319.32
P.G.D.A.V. College (Evening)446.80, 437.70, 396.38, 204.76
Gargi College (W)386.50
Bhagini Nivedita College (W)590.87, 321.34, 193.33
Bharati College (W)509.10, 249.51
Lakshmibai College (W)452.52, 231.82
Satyawati College (Evening)562.90, 446.77, 430.79, 336.07, 307.57
Janki Devi Memorial College (W)248.13
Satyawati College189.70
Mata Sundri College for Women (W)172.29

If you have a mid-range CUET score and want Political Science Honours specifically, Ramjas, Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa and Shaheed Bhagat Singh are the realistic Round 3 targets, not Hindu or Miranda House.

DU third round cutoff 2026 for History, college by college

History Honours shows more Round 3 movement overall than Political Science, since fewer of its seats closed out entirely in the first two rounds.

CollegeRound 3 score(s)
Hansraj College851.74
Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma College779.91
Ramjas College714.93, 697.76
Shaheed Bhagat Singh College679.86
Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar College635.13, 225.09
Shyam Lal College629.80, 214.74, 153.64
Janki Devi Memorial College (W)700.31, 593.36, 268.12
Lakshmibai College (W)544.04, 541.14, 294.95, 278.79
Kalindi College (W)487.12, 467.86, 217.64
Deshbandhu College461.88
Dyal Singh College (Evening)434.33
Motilal Nehru College (Evening)408.84, 387.48, 254.67, 241.18
P.G.D.A.V. College407.56, 154.59

Two colleges here break the usual pattern where UR sits above every reserved category. Bharati College’s History Honours row reads 264.00, 345.80, 401.14, 667.91, rising rather than falling, and Rajdhani College’s reads 281.61, 341.98, 514.96, also rising. This is the same quirk visible in DU’s Round 2 sheet for Sanskrit, where a thin applicant pool in a particular category can produce a higher minimum score than the general category alongside it. It is not a printing error. It just means, for that one row, whichever category filled last happened to be filled by a stronger scorer.

DU third round cutoff 2026 for Science courses

Science Honours cutoffs run on a completely different scale from Arts and Commerce at DU, and this is the single most useful thing to understand if you have been assuming one number covers the whole university.

Mathematics (Hons.), top and bottom of the Round 3 list

CollegeRound 3 score
Hindu College750.22
Hansraj College721.26
Ramjas College715.77
Kirori Mal College707.48
Miranda House (W)705.65
Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College688.14
Shaheed Bhagat Singh College643.57
Sri Guru Nanak Dev Khalsa College535.65
Gargi College (W)527.57
Acharya Narendra Dev College463.33

At the other end of the same programme: Vivekananda College sat at 149.87, Bharati College at 138.25, Janki Devi Memorial College at 144.03, and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College at just 92.99, the lowest Mathematics Honours score in the entire Round 3 sheet.

Chemistry (Hons.), the widest spread in Round 3

Hindu College leads Chemistry Honours this round at 552.27, with Hansraj College at 512.61 and Kirori Mal College at 424.58 close behind. At the bottom, several colleges show Chemistry Honours scores under 100 in at least one still-open category, and Zakir Husain Delhi College’s row includes a score of 9.90, the single lowest figure recorded anywhere in the Round 3 sheet. That number almost certainly belongs to a category with very few applicants left to fill, not the general seat, but it is real, and it is on the official list.

Computer Science (Hons.)

Hansraj College tops Computer Science Honours in Round 3 at 715.90, followed by Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College at 668.54 and Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies at 570.34. Several off-campus and smaller colleges show Computer Science Honours scores in the 250 to 340 range for the same round, which is worth knowing if a top-tier CS seat feels out of reach.

The takeaway across every science subject on this list: a score that gets nowhere near Political Science at a marquee North Campus college can be a completely realistic shot at a Science Honours seat elsewhere. DU’s science programmes, outside a handful of colleges, simply do not draw the same volume of applicants as Commerce, Economics or the flagship Arts subjects.

North Campus versus South Campus: how the round 3 numbers actually compare

Search interest in “North Campus cutoff” and “South Campus cutoff” usually assumes one side is uniformly higher than the other. The Round 3 data does not support that as a blanket rule; it depends heavily on the specific programme.

North Campus collegeProgrammeRound 3 score
Hindu CollegeB.A. (Hons.) Sociology921.45
Hansraj CollegeB.Com. (Hons.)896.63
Ramjas CollegeB.A. (Hons.) Political Science869.45
Daulat Ram College (W)B.A. (Hons.) Psychology850.30
St. Stephen’s CollegeB.Sc. (Hons.) Mathematics741.27
Miranda House (W)B.A. (Hons.) English756.71
Kirori Mal CollegeB.Com. (Hons.)735.50
South Campus / South Delhi collegeProgrammeRound 3 score
Sri Venkateswara CollegeB.Com.872.27
Sri Venkateswara CollegeB.A. (Hons.) Economics789.74
Gargi College (W)B.Com. (Hons.)531.15
Kamala Nehru College (W)B.A. (Hons.) Philosophy599.78
Lady Shri Ram College for WomenB.A. (Hons.) Political Science707.96

Sri Venkateswara College’s Round 3 Commerce score of 872.27 sits close to what several North Campus colleges show for their own strongest programmes, which is a useful reminder that “South Campus” does not automatically mean an easier cutoff. The real driver is always the specific programme’s applicant demand at that specific college, not which side of the Ridge it sits on.

What is the bare minimum score to get a DU seat through CUET this round

There is no single floor number for the whole university, and anyone telling you otherwise is oversimplifying. What the Round 3 sheet actually shows is a genuinely wide range depending on programme and category.

At the very bottom, a handful of thin reserved categories in low-demand Science subjects dipped into single digits and low double digits this round, the 9.90 Chemistry figure at Zakir Husain Delhi College being the clearest example. Whole-Mathematics-Honours seats closed as low as 92.99 at Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College. Several B.A. Programme combinations involving less commonly paired subjects sat in the 100 to 200 range across multiple colleges.

If you want a realistic, non-extreme answer to “what’s the minimum score that still gets me a DU seat in Round 3,” a workable general-category range for B.A. Programme and B.Sc. Programme combinations at off-campus and smaller colleges is roughly 150 to 350 this round. Anything above 400 opens up a meaningfully wider set of Honours options outside the very top colleges. This is a pattern read from the actual sheet, not a guaranteed cutoff, since specific rows will always sit above or below this range depending on the exact combination.

The full DU admission process after the third round, step by step

Round 3 is not the end of the CSAS cycle. Several category-specific rounds run in parallel and afterward, and DU has published dates for all of them.

Step 1, Round 3 acceptance and fee payment. If you received a Round 3 allotment, accept it on your dashboard, go through college-level document verification, and pay the admission fee by 13 August 2026, 11:59 PM. Missing this deadline cancels the allotment outright.

Step 2, Round 1 of CW, ECA and Sports quota. DU released this allocation on 9 August 2026, one day after the main Round 3 result. CW stands for Children/Widows of Armed Forces Personnel, a supernumerary quota separate from the regular CSAS rounds. ECA covers extra-curricular activity admissions, evaluated on a mixed CUET-and-trial basis. Sports quota runs on the same structure for athletic disciplines. Mid-Entry registration does not apply to any of these three categories, since they follow their own eligibility and trial process rather than the general preference-filling system.

Step 3, Round 2 of Ward Quota. Ward Quota covers seats reserved for children and wards of current DU employees. Round 1 of this quota was announced alongside the Upgrade allocation on 1 August, and DU runs a second round afterward to fill any Ward Quota seats still vacant. Like CW, ECA and Sports, Ward Quota sits outside the regular CSAS Mid-Entry window.

Step 4, Round 1 of performance-based programmes. B.A. (Hons.) Music, B.Sc. (Physical Education, Health Education and Sports), and the Bachelor of Fine Arts run on a separate schedule, since admission depends on a practical audition or trial in addition to the CUET score. Mid-Entry does not cover these either.

Step 5, further rounds and spot admission. If seats remain vacant after the special-category rounds close, DU typically opens spot admission rounds to fill whatever is left. Spot rounds work differently from the regular CSAS process: there is no freeze, upgrade or withdraw choice. Whatever seat you are allotted in a spot round is final, and skipping it ends your eligibility for that admission cycle.

Freeze, upgrade or withdraw: what your Round 3 choices actually mean

If you received a Round 3 allotment, you get the same three choices every regular round offers.

Freeze locks in the seat exactly as allotted. You are done, and you will not be considered for any further round, even if a higher preference opens up later.

Upgrade keeps your current seat as a safety net while you stay eligible for something higher on your preference list in a later round. If a better combination comes through, your current seat is automatically replaced. If nothing better comes through, you keep what you already have. The one catch: if an upgrade does land, you must actively accept the new seat, or the system can drop you from CSAS altogether.

Withdraw pulls you out of the seat entirely, and depending on the round, possibly out of CSAS for the rest of the cycle. DU charges a non-refundable withdrawal fee, and your original acceptance fee is not fully refunded either.

By Round 3, most of the very top programmes at the most competitive colleges have already closed out, so an Upgrade choice this late in the cycle has real value mainly if your preference list still has genuinely open combinations above your current seat, not a hope that a fully closed programme will somehow reopen.

Documents to have ready before verification

Whichever option you choose, document verification follows immediately after acceptance. Keep these ready as scanned files before you touch your dashboard:

Class 10 certificate or marksheet, for date-of-birth confirmation. Class 12 marksheet. A government-issued photo ID. A current-year category certificate if you are claiming OBC-NCL, SC, ST, EWS or PwBD benefit, since an outdated certificate is one of the most common rejection reasons at this stage. A migration certificate, required specifically at the point of admission confirmation rather than at registration.

File size and format matter more than people expect. Compress scanned PDFs before uploading rather than repeatedly retrying an oversized file and assuming the portal is broken.

What to do if you did not get a seat in round 3

First, check whether your preference list still has combinations below your current status that have not been exhausted. A “no allotment” result in Round 3 for your top preferences does not necessarily mean every preference on your list is closed.

Second, if you registered late or missed earlier phases, the Mid-Entry window has already closed for this cycle as of 5 August, so that specific route is done for regular CSAS rounds. It does not apply to CW, ECA, Sports, Ward Quota or performance-based programmes regardless of timing.

Third, watch for further CSAS rounds and eventual spot admission. DU typically keeps running allocation rounds until either seats run out or demand does, and spot rounds specifically exist to fill whatever is still vacant once the regular cycle winds down. Keep your CSAS login active and check it directly rather than relying on shared screenshots or third-party cutoff predictions.

Fourth, if DU genuinely is not working out this year, other CUET-participating universities run their own counselling timelines that sometimes extend later into August and September, and those remain worth checking in parallel rather than waiting on DU alone.

DU third round cutoff 2026, important points to remember

The Round 3 list is independent of Round 1 and Round 2 by DU’s own disclaimer, so treat round-to-round comparisons as informative, not guaranteed.

A programme with zero rows in the Round 3 sheet for a given college has zero vacancy that round, not a missing data entry.

Drops between rounds vary enormously by programme, from roughly five points in deep-demand subjects like Psychology to well over a hundred points in programmes like Commerce Honours at specific colleges where a real wave of upgrades or withdrawals opened seats.

Science Honours cutoffs run far lower than Arts and Commerce across most of DU, outside a small set of colleges.

Reserved category cutoffs sitting above the general category on a specific row is a real, documented pattern at DU, not an error, and it shows up again in this Round 3 sheet exactly as it did in Round 2.

Frequently asked questions

What is the DU third round cutoff for 2026?

There is no single figure. It depends on college, programme and category, and ranges from under 10 in a handful of thin reserved-category Science rows to 921.45 for Sociology Honours at Hindu College. Check the official Round 3 PDF or your CSAS dashboard for your exact combination.

How much has the cutoff dropped this round compared to Round 2?

It varies by programme. Verified examples from this round range from about a 5-point drop in Psychology Honours at Aryabhatta College to about a 167-point drop in Commerce Honours at Kirori Mal College. There is no single “average drop” figure that means anything meaningful across 956 different rows with different applicant pools.

What was last year’s DU CUET cutoff?

We are not publishing a last-year figure here unless it comes from DU’s own archived documents, since an unverified year-on-year comparison usually creates a false sense of precision. Check DU’s admission portal archive directly if you need last year’s exact round-wise scores.

Is the third round cutoff lower than the second round for every programme?

No. Most programmes ease from Round 2 to Round 3, but a small number of rows can stay flat or, in rare reserved-category cases, even move slightly upward for one specific category if that category’s applicant pool happened to include a higher scorer this round.

What is the third round cutoff for Political Science at DU?

Hindu College, Miranda House and Kirori Mal College have zero Round 3 vacancy for B.A. (Hons.) Political Science, since every seat closed by Round 2. The actual Round 3 movement for this programme is at colleges like Ramjas College (869.45), Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College (851.69) and Shaheed Bhagat Singh College (793.38).

What is the third round cutoff for History at DU?

Hansraj College leads this round at 851.74, followed by Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma College at 779.91 and Ramjas College at 714.93. Hindu College and Miranda House show no Round 3 History Honours row, meaning that seat is already fully closed at both.

What is the third round cutoff for Science courses at DU?

It depends heavily on the subject. Mathematics Honours ranges from 750.22 at Hindu College down to 92.99 at Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College this round. Chemistry Honours tops out at 552.27 at Hindu College and dips into single digits in at least one thin reserved category at Zakir Husain Delhi College.

What is the third round cutoff for OBC candidates in 2026?

DU’s sheet lists OBC-NCL as the second column when it is still open for a given programme, typically 15 to 30 points below the same programme’s UR score at competitive colleges, though the gap narrows and sometimes disappears entirely in low-demand Science and language subjects. Because DU’s extracted table does not repeat column headers on every row, cross-check the exact OBC-NCL figure for your specific programme against the official PDF rather than assuming a fixed gap.

How many seats are allotted in Delhi University UG courses?

DU’s Round 3 sheet lists minimum scores, not raw seat counts, so we cannot give you an exact 2026 seat total from this document alone. For scale, in the 2024 admission cycle DU had confirmed 74,108 undergraduate admissions by the time that year’s upgrade round closed, which gives a rough sense of how many seats move through CSAS across a full cycle, though the current year’s exact number will differ.

How much has the cutoff dropped for North Campus colleges?

It depends on the programme, not the campus. Commerce Honours at Kirori Mal College, a North Campus college, dropped by roughly 167 points between Round 2 and Round 3, while Political Science and History at Hindu College and Miranda House, also North Campus, show zero Round 3 movement because those seats already closed.

How much has the cutoff dropped for South Campus colleges?

South Campus and South Delhi colleges show a similarly mixed picture. Sri Venkateswara College’s Commerce score stayed high in Round 3 at 872.27, close to several North Campus colleges’ own top scores, which is a reminder that campus location alone does not predict how far a cutoff moves.

What is the bare minimum marks to get admission in DU through CUET?

There is no fixed floor across the whole university. The lowest figure recorded anywhere in the Round 3 sheet is 9.90, for a thin reserved category in B.Sc. (Hons.) Chemistry at Zakir Husain Delhi College, an extreme outlier rather than a typical outcome. A more realistic working range for general-category B.A. Programme and B.Sc. Programme seats at off-campus colleges this round is roughly 150 to 350.

What happens if I miss the Round 3 fee payment deadline?

Your allotment is cancelled and the seat returns to the pool, regardless of whether you had chosen freeze or upgrade. DU’s portal does not typically grant individual extensions once a published deadline passes.


All figures above are drawn directly from the University of Delhi’s official Round 3 Minimum Allocation Score PDF. Always cross-check your exact college, programme and category against that document or your CSAS dashboard before making a final decision, since a single row can carry detail this summary cannot fully capture.

For the rest of the admission cycle, these ClarityWire guides cover the steps around this one: what the Round 2 seat allotment showed before Round 3 opened, how to decide between freeze, upgrade or withdraw once you have an allotment, the full documents checklist for verification, what to do if you got a seat in the very first cutoff, and how to build a stronger CUET UG preference list for whichever round comes next.

For more data-led breakdowns of DU admission rounds as they release, visit ClarityWire.

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