Minimum Eligibility Criteria 2026
Four-year B.A./B.Sc./B.Com/BBA (Honours or Honours with Research)

General Criteria

• A candidate who have passed the Higher Secondary (10+2) or its equivalent examination is eligible to seek admission to the first year of the four-year B.A. / B.Sc. / B.Com. / BBA (Honours & Honours with Research) Courses provided he/she has also passed in English, the full marks not being less than 100 and fulfil the conditions given below.
• No candidate shall be allowed admission after a lapse of over three years from the year of passing the previous qualifying examination or discontinuation of recognised regular course of studies after passing the previous qualifying examination. The year of admission shall not be considered while calculating three years from the year of passing the previous qualifying examination, i.e., a candidate should have passed the previous qualifying examination not before 2022.
  
  Please Note – Candidates who are already registered with Calcutta University under Annual System (1+1+1 Regulations) or candidate who have already successfully completed any U.G. degree earlier, are not eligible to apply for any of the courses.
• Candidates who have passed the Higher Secondary (10+2) Examination or its equivalent from CBSE, CISCE (ISC), WBCHSE (WB Board) and National Institute of Open Schooling, need not submit the Migration Certificate for registration under the University of Calcutta.
• Candidates belonging to the Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe community taking up four year B.A./B.Sc honours & honours with research course must have a minimum of 40% marks in the aggregate or 40% marks in the subject or related subject at the previous qualifying examination, as the case may be (applies to holders of valid certificates from the state of West Bengal only).
• Aggregate marks in Higher Secondary (10+2) shall be calculated by adding the marks in top-four subjects in order of marks secured by a candidate. However, marks in compulsory Environmental Education/ Studies shall not be considered for calculation of aggregate marks. If the subject “Environmental Science” is studied as an elective subject of 100 marks, it may be taken into account to determine the aggregate marks.
• Admission to any course in the College is provisional, subject to the final approval of the University of Calcutta.
• In the event of two or more candidates having the SAME INDEX in the merit list even after following all the stipulated tie breaking rules, admission will be offered to the candidate who applied earlier.
• Students with Compartmental or Fail result in Class XII Board are not eligible to apply in any courses.
• Student who did not receive the Class XII mark sheet can upload eCopy of the result.
• Any wrong information provided in the Application Form or during any time of the Admission process will lead to cancellation of Admission
• The admission will be offered to prospective applicants strictly on the basis of merit. To check merit list, applicants must visit the website (www.vedantakc.edu.in) regularly. Prospective applicants eligible for admission shall also be informed via sms/email.
• The entire Admission process will be carried out in online mode. All information will be available on the website from time to time.
• Correct Email id & Phone number should be provided at the time of filling up the form. Email id & Phone number will be verified. All the communications will be sent to the registered phone number and email id only. College will not be responsible for non-receipt of any important information due to incorrect email id or phone number.
• All fees can be paid through online payment system.
• Fee once paid will not be refunded and/or subject to Calcutta University / UGC guidelines
• Physical verification of the Documents will be conducted later and till that time admission will remain provisional. For the Admission purpose candidates will be required to upload soft copies of the documents. Specific dates for physical verification of documents will be announced later.