2nd list: BA, BCom cutoffs fall below 90% in leading colleges

Time of India

31-05-2025

Mumbai: The demand for traditional courses such as BA and BCom in the city's top- colleges has taken a hit this year, with high scorers now having a wider range of professional courses to choose from.
In the recent past, top colleges would close admissions to these courses at cutoffs in the 90% range, but many witnessed a drop to the 80% range in the second merit list announced on Saturday. FYBSc cutoffs across colleges plunged by 10-15%, which has many principals worried. Some city colleges are still receiving admission inquiries from students, as the early start to the admission process this year seems to have caused some to miss the application deadline, and could possibly have affected the cutoffs too.
Take, for instance, the FYBA cutoff at Jai Hind College — which, in the past, would barely budge after the first list — but has now dropped by 5.17%, from 92.17% to 87% in the second. The cutoff for BCom, too, dropped at the college compared to the previous list. Ramnarain Ruia College closed the second list for FYBA at 88%—a drop of 2% from the first list. At St Xavier's College, the cutoff, though, dipped marginally for FYBA (courses other than psychology and English), it also did not breach the 90% mark.
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Psychology and English group at Xavier's and other leading colleges, though, stayed above 90%. FYBSc cutoffs in most colleges plunged to even 50s, and with no takers, many are likely to allow walk-in admissions for the course.
On the contrary, the cutoffs in self-financed courses, mainly the allied BCom courses, have seen only a marginal drop of 1-2%, and continued to remain out of reach for many 90%+ scorers. While HR and KC Colleges, which come under the HSNC University, already announced their list on Friday, N M and Mithibai Colleges, from the SVKM group, have decided to release their second list on Monday.
Ruia College principal Anushree Lokur said with the array of new professional courses and also newer private universities, traditional courses have taken a hit. "Many are coming to us with the usual problem—they have either filled the university form or the college form, many still believe that admissions are centralised like is the process in FYJC," said Lokur. R A Podar College principal Vinita Pimpale said many are coming with inquiries as they have missed applicaton deadlines.
St Xavier's College principal, Rajendra Shinde, said they usually never had second lists for FYBA, but of late, students opt for other colleges if they do not get their subject combinations, which may have led to a marginal drop in the cutoffs. On poor interest in pure sciences, Vijay Dabholkar, principal, Jai Hind College, said students have to spend more time for science lectures and practicals unlike other courses.