MS University's Faculty of Arts caps intake capacity of students

Vadodara: For the first time since its inception, MS University's Faculty of Arts has capped the intake capacity of students.
The faculty will admit only 2,395 students this year even as 1,200 candidates aspiring to take admission in various programmes have already registered online.
"We were asked by the university authorities to fix the intake capacity of students in all our 18 departments," said professor Pradeep Singh Choondawat, dean of Faculty of Arts.
Choondawat said that the first round of online registrations will continue till June 19 while the second round will begin after the declaration of HSc supplementary results. "The students who have cleared their HSc before 2013 will not be admitted by the faculty," said Dr Shweta Jejurkar, co-ordinator of BA programme. .
The highest intake capacity is in languages with 500 seats in Hindi, 400 in Gujarati and 260 in English whereas lowest capacity is of 10 seats offered in Mathematics.
To facilitate the admission procedure for academic year 2016-17, the faculty has also kept a walk-in helpdesk to guide the students. While the spot admissions for students with 55% and above began on Wednesday, the process will continue for other students till June 22.
The faculty is offering BA in 19 core subjects including archaeology and ancient history, economics, English, French, geography, German, Gujarati, History, Hindi, linguistics, Marathi, mathematics, Persian, philosophy, political science, psychology, Russian, Sanskrit and Sociology. "Preference of students change every year based on market trends," said Jejurkar.
"Students intending to take admission in psychology should have at least 50% in HSc while those wanting to take up English must have obtained 45 marks or above in English in class XII," said Jejurkar.
Students from other regional boards who have taken HSc examinations in private are not eligible for entrance into the arts faculty.