30,000 students, 1,100 seats: Delhi University’s one-year PG rollout hits a roadblock

Delhi University is facing student protests due to a significant shortage of seats in its new one-year postgraduate programs. While 30,000 students have graduated from the four-year undergraduate cohort, only 1,100 seats are available for the accelerated master's pathway.
With more than 30,000 students graduating from Delhi University’s (DU) inaugural four-year undergraduate cohort and only a little over 1,100 seats on offer across 46 one-year postgraduate programmes, several students contend that the promised progression from the undergraduate degree to a one-year master’s has not been matched by adequate postgraduate capacity, despite having invested an additional year in pursuit of the pathway.
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