For Mumbai college admissions, go online !!!

Mumbai: Junior college admissions have gone online for the first time in Maharashtra, spelling relief to nearly half a million anxious students and their parents. The state government on Thursday created a special website, www.mumbaiapplication.com for the purpose, which nearly 500,000 students seeking admissions for the next academic year can use.

Initially, the online admission facility has been made available to all the 500-plus colleges affiliated to the University of Mumbai and students can apply from anywhere. Students seeking admission to first year junior college can register themselves online, select the college(s) of their choice, pay the application fees online, or through mobile phones and even make multiple applications.

However, the process of manual admissions will continue as before, the announcement added. Principal secretary, school education Sanjay Kumar said that 2008 has been declared the Year of Information Technology. "As part of that, the government wanted to take the gains of IT to the masses, since the largest single process of admissions is post-SSC, in the first year junior colleges, every year."

In Mumbai, students and parents face a harrowing time during admission season, carrying valuable documents on crowded local trains from one college to another, through monsoon rain - all within a very short time span.

The functioning of the new system was demonstrated to Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, deputy chief minister R R Patil, school education minister Vasant Purke, higher education minister Dilip Walse-Patil and minister of state Hassan Mushrif, according to an announcement in Mumbai on Thursday. (IANS)

Mumbai University - Important information!!!

University of Bombay is one of India's first modern universities. It was established by the British in 1857. Originally, an affiliating and degree-granting body, the university later added teaching to its functions. With the establishment of regional universities in the state in 1948-50, it was designated a federal university, with jurisdiction over numerous colleges and postgraduate institutions in the metropolitan area of Greater Mumbai. The university has faculties of arts, science, technology, law, medicine, commerce, dentistry, fine arts, and Indian medicine. In the late 20th century it had about 222,700 full-time students. The primary language of instruction is English.

Mumbai University Postal Address, Telephone Nos.
University of Mumbai,
Fort, Mumbai 400 032.
(Closest railway station- Churchgate station)
Telephone Nos. (Fort). 22652819 / 22652825

University of Mumbai,
Kalina,Santacruz (E),
Mumbai 400 098.
Telephone Nos.(Santacruz).26526388/26526091.

Maharashtra to open 1,600 colleges to clear admission problems!!!

Mumbai: The Maharashtra Government has decided to open 1,600 new colleges all over the state this year to provide relief to thousands of students who have recently passed out of school but have not secured admission to junior colleges.

Education Minister Vasant Purke announced this while responding to a discussion on schools and higher technical education and the plight of students, initiated by the opposition parties in the state legislative assembly on Friday.

Assuring that "not a single student will remain without admission this year", Purke said that since the pass percentage of students in the state was higher this year than in 2007, more divisions and more colleges were needed.

He said that while the decision to start more divisions in existing colleges was already taken, the government will go ahead and start 1,600 new colleges from the current academic year. The government was committed to ensuring that each student who passed out of school this year gets a seat in a college of his or her choice.

The list of the new colleges with the number of seats, their locations and the courses offered would soon be announced and displayed on the state government website, he said.

Sky high cut-offs in Mumbai colleges leave students pondering

Mumbai: Even 90 percent did not seem enough for students aspiring for a junior college seat after the fifth cut-off list was declared here on Wednesday.

At some of Mumbai's well-known colleges, the difference between the first and fifth cut-off list was only one percentile.

Mumbai's most reputed college for Science stream, D.G. Ruparel College, lowered its cut-off by a mere one percentile in the fifth cut-off.

The cut-off for the first admission list at the college was 96.55 and for the fifth list it was 95.38 percentile, much to the disappointment of many aspirants.

St. Xavier's College too said the same story. The cut-off for Humanities stream dipped by just one percentile from 90 in the first list, to 89 in the second list.

The cut-off for the first merit list at H.R. College of Commerce and Economics was 91.59 percentile, which dipped to 89.8 in the fifth list.

The State Education Department has, however, said that it may consider a second round of admissions if seats remain vacant even after the first round.

Sheila Tiwari, Deputy Director of Education, Mumbai division said, "We have asked all colleges to prepare a list of vacant seats after admission procedures are completed on Thursday."