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As the second merit list for the degree admissions was declared on Wednesday, the cut-off score for almost all courses in Mumbai colleges has seen a considerable drop compared to the first list.
The Science stream has seen a significant fall in the cut-off, as opposed to Arts and commerce stream.
At the city’s popular St. Xavier’s college, cut-off for traditional BA course is 91.83 percent which is a marginal drop from the cut-off of 92.17 percent in the first merit list declared last week.
However in Ramnarain Ruia College, which is another sought-after college for Arts, cut-off for BA dropped from 93 percent to 90 per cent in the second list. At Jai Hind college too it remained high at 92 percent.
Popular professional course Bachelor of Finance and Management (BFM) at R A Podar college closed admission at 92 per cent which is again a marginal drop from 93.8 percent from the first merit list.
Admission to Bachelor of Communications and Management at Ruia college dropped marginally from 93.5per cent to 92 percent.
But in case of traditional B.Sc., the cut-off has dropped from 63 per cent to 41 percent.
Principal of the college, Dr. Anushree Lokur, said, “The trends are shifting these days. Students are more interested in Commerce and Arts, particularly to pursue psychology in Arts. There is no demand for pure science courses. Even in the case of professional courses in science stream, technology and computer-related courses are seen more in demand than others.”
At Ruia College, computer science closed admission at 77 per cent, while it was 80 per cent last year.
In Biotechnology the cut-off has dropped from 93 per cent to 87 percent. But in Biochemistry, the cut-off has dropped significantly from 70 per cent to 49 per cent.
“Most high sorcerers from science stream head to engineering and medical education post class12. Whereas remaining students opt for professional courses. Instead of pursuing pure science courses, students prefer to go for professional courses under Arts or Commerce stream,” said the principal of a city college.
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