CUET PG Cut-off and Counselling: DU Minimum Scores, Universities, Rounds

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The participating list is dynamic, as the bulletin says. NTA's result notices give the count and split for each cycle, which lets us compare them. The 2026 list grew by 7 over 2025 and by 8 over 2024 (our subtraction). Central universities rose from 39 to 41 to 45; government institutions from 15 to 15 to 24; private and deemed universities fell from 97 to 94 to 89.

The 2026 central-university list includes Banaras Hindu University, the University of Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Jamia Millia Islamia, the University of Hyderabad, Pondicherry University, the English and Foreign Languages University, Visva-Bharati, Tezpur University and the central universities of states such as Haryana, Jammu, Kerala, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu. State and private lists, and a link to each university's programme file, are on NTA's participating-universities page. The list can change before the next cycle.

Each university's NTA file lists the programmes it admits through CUET PG and the question paper code for each. We counted the distinct codes in every file we could read (193 of 198; our reading, lower bounds where a file was partly scanned). The spread is wide. The median central university lists about 30 codes, the median state university 16, the median government institution 5 and the median private or deemed university 16.

Azim Premji University tops the list because its file accepts "any of the test paper codes" listed for a programme, and the union runs across all 157 codes. Among the big central universities, Banaras Hindu University lists 88 codes, the University of Delhi 67 and Jawaharlal Nehru University 65. A university that lists many codes accepts many different degrees, which also means more applicants per code, so the count is a measure of breadth, not of ease.

The "independent spot round" rule matters for reading cut-offs: a spot round's minimum score is set only by the candidates who apply in that round, so a spot-round cut-off can be far below the regular-round scores for the same programme. DU's page lists separate minimum-allocation-score documents for spot rounds; this guide covers the three regular rounds.

From the Round 1 list (16 June) to the third spot round (31 August) is 76 days by our subtraction. The CUET PG result had been declared on 24 April 2026, so DU's first list came 53 days after it. That gap is the time in which candidates register on CSAS (PG), fill preferences and correct details; the dates come from the file names of DU's own documents.

DU's lists give, for each programme, college or department and admission category, the "minimum allocation score": the lowest CUET PG score allocated a seat there in that round. We read all three PDFs line by line (every line checked against the printed text) and found the following. Round 1 has 2,055 lines, Round 2 has 1,840 (one of which prints no score, so 1,839 scores) and Round 3 has 609. The lists shrink because later rounds only list combinations where a seat was still allocated.

Some lines print a negative minimum (the lowest is -20, in an M.A. programme in Round 2). A negative score is possible only because of negative marking, so the figures are raw marks. DU does not name the scale; because the highest value is 282 and every figure is between -20 and 282, our reading is raw marks out of 300. Treat that as our reading, not a DU statement.

Each cell reads "lowest to highest minimum score among the colleges listed, with the number of colleges or departments in brackets". For example, M.A. Political Science (C1 UR) listed 25 places in Round 1, from 206 to 276, so 70 marks separated the easiest and the hardest college to enter. The same programme's reserved-category lines reached lower minimums at the bottom of the range, as the next table shows.

How to use this honestly: the lists are last cycle's allocations, so they show how hard each programme was to enter, not what next year will need. They are conditional on the field of 2026 (4,11,366 registered candidates) and on the seat matrix DU used. Compare your raw marks against the range, then look at the individual college lines in DU's PDF, because a range hides which college sits where.

In our count of DU's own NTA file, DU lists 67 distinct paper codes. The common ones are the subject codes for each M.A. and M.Sc., COQP12 (General - Management), COQP10 (Economics) and COQP08 (Commerce), plus COQP11 (General) for a few programmes such as the Bachelor of Library and Information Science, which DU maps to COQP11 for a bachelor's degree in science, social science or humanities. Always take the code from DU's file for your programme: the same degree at another university can use a different code.

Every participating university runs its own process and publishes its own lists. We do not state cut-offs for other universities because we have not verified a comparable official list for them, and the numbers circulating on coaching sites are mostly unofficial. What NTA does publish for each is the programme-to-code file that tells you which paper to sit. The bulletin is explicit that NTA has no role in selection, seat transfer or fee refund, and that admission questions go to the university.