Admission Procedure

The applicants who received the B.A. (Hons)/B.Sc. (Hons) degree, with the requisite marks mentioned below, from any recognised University will be eligible to appear in the admission test for admission to the two year postgraduate programme.

Eligibility criteria for obtaining Application Form for admission to the First Semester M.A ./ M.Sc. Classes.

Courses	Eligibility
Bengali	50% in Bengali (Honours)
English	50% in  English (Honours)
Hindi	50% in  Hindi (Honours)
History	50% in  History (Honours)
Philosophy	50% in  Philosophy (Honours)
Political Science	50% in  Political Science (Honours)
Sociology	50% in  Sociology (Honours)
Biotechnology	55% marks in B.Sc. with Honours in Botany/Zoology/Physiology/Microbiology (with Chemistry as subsidiary subject) or Honours in Chemistry/Biochemistry And 60% marks in Higher secondary with Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Biology
Botany	45% in Botany (Honours)
Chemistry	55% in  Chemistry (Honours)
Applied Economics	50% in  Economics (Honours)
Geography	50% in  Geography (Honours)
Applied Geology	55% in  Geology (Honours)
Mathematics	45% in  Mathematics (Honours)
Physics	55% in  Physics (Honours)
Physiology	45% in  Physiology (Honours)
Statistics	55% in  Statistics (Honours)
Zoology	45% in  Zoology (Honours)
Molecular Biology & Genetics	55% marks in B.Sc. with Honours in Botany/Zoology/Physiology/Microbiology (with Chemistry as subsidiary subject) or Honours in Chemistry/Biochemistry And 60% marks in Higher secondary with Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Biology
Environmental System Management	55% in B.Sc. Honours with Chemistry as the Honours or subsidiary subject

The students of erstwhile Presidency College and the students belonging to the SC/ST categories having B.A. (Hons)/B.Sc. (Hons) Degree are eligible to apply (SC/ST candidates are entitled to the concessions/benefits from the State of their origin only and not from the State where they have migrated to).

Up to 60% of the following seats will be filled in through direct admission of the candidates from erstwhile Presidency College strictly on merit basis. This reservation is, however, not applicable for multidisciplinary courses viz. Biotechnology, Molecular Biology & Genetics and Environmental System Management.

The rest of the seats will be filled in from the merit list based on the marks obtained in the Admission Test. There will be written admission test for 100 marks and 2 hour duration for each subject. The final merit list will be prepared on the basis of the marks obtained in the respective admission test. A candidate has to secure at least 20 marks or 40% of the highest marks (for general candidates) or 30% of the highest marks (for SC/ST candidates), whichever is higher, in the admission test, failing which the candidate will be disqualified for admission. The SC/ST candidates will have to secure 75% of the total marks obtained by the last general candidate, otherwise they will not be considered for admission from reserved quota (vide Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India Notification No. BC. 16014/1/82-SC&BCD.I dated 6th August 1984). The final admission will be offered strictly on merit, according to the position in the merit list. Candidates qualified for more than one subject will be allowed to express their choice during counselling session on the date of admission. The admission for a particular Honours subject will be completed on one and the same day through this process of counselling.

If some seats reserved for direct admission remain vacant for insufficient number of eligible applicants, the same will be filled in (in addition to the rest 50% of seats) from the rank list based on admission test.

Number of seats for each course :

M. A.	No. of Seats.	M. Sc.	No. of Seats.
Bengali	30	Botany	26
English	30	Chemistry	30
Hindi	40	Geography	26
History	35	Applied Geology	20
Philosophy	30	Environmental System Management	20
Political Science	30	Physics	30
Sociology	24	Physiology	20
		Mathematics	20
		Zoology	30
		Molecular Biology and Genetics	20
		Applied Economics	26
		Bio-technology	10
		Statistics	20

Registrar Presidency University, Kolkata