DU CSAS Round 1 Results Out: What 93,000 Selected Students And Unselected Candidates Should Do

Delhi University has released its first list of undergraduate seat allocations for 2026-27 academic sessions, which includes at least 93,033 seats for candidates. The list has released by its Common Seat Allocation System (CSAS). The first list marks the important stage in India's largest university admission process and now students only need to confirm their seats by submitting the fees before the deadline passes. Students who are unhappy with the seat allocations list can have option to wait for the upgrade list in next round.

More Than 2.08 Lakh Candidates Participated in DU Admission Process

According to DU Registrar Vikas Gupta, By 13 July, 2026, around 2,08,043 candidates have completed the admission process of CSAS. In this stage, candidates have filed a application combined 1,59,42,385 unique programme and college preferences, that shows the demand for the seats in the university's 67 affiliated colleges.

"The University of Delhi has announced allocations of Round 1 of undergraduate admissions to 221 programmes in 67 colleges, accounting to 1393 programme + college combinations," the statement said.

DU has allocated seats to 93,033 students which includes 51,015 female candidates and 42,019 seats for male candidates. That results in allocation rate of 86.10 percent. Although, DU has only 71,600 undergraduate seats but it intentionally released more seats as many selected candidates doesn't accept the admissions. By releasing more seats, it helps university to fill the seats by without delaying the admission process.

Key Dates Students Should Not Miss

Those students who have received the a seat in the first list should accept the allotted seat by 11.59 PM on 18 July, 2026. Admission will only be accepted after the candidates submit the prescribed college fees within the time line.

"The shortlisted candidates must accept their seat by 11:59 pm of Saturday, July 18, 2026. Once the candidates submit their programme fees within a stipulated round, they will get an opportunity to choose 'upgrade/freeze'. Candidates who choose for upgrade will be able to reorder their higher preferences the window for which will remain open till 11:59 pm July 21, 2026," the university said.

The candidates who will choose 'Freeze' option will confirm their seat and exit the admission process. However, if the the candidate choose 'Upgrade' option to continue, they will continue to hope for next list to get the upgraded seat while retaining this one as well.

The last date for the admission fess payment is 21 July, and the candidates who have not got any seat in Round 1 list, should not submit a fresh application for it. This will continue to count for the second round of list.

The second list will be released on 25 July, while the candidates who will be selected have to submit the fees till 28 July.

Special Categories and Reservation-Wise Allocation

DU also released details about the allocations happened under special and reserved categories. In the first round of list, 1,243 single girl child candidates got the admissions. While 242 orphan candidates got the seats which includes 133 female and 109 male candidates.

According to DU, 99.9 percent seats for the unreserved category have been allocated in the first round of list. While in the reserve category, 96 percent for OBC, 95.2 percent for SC, and 92.7 percent for EWS seats were allocated.

On the other hand, 67.3 percent of seats have been reserved for Scheduled Tribe (ST), 23 percent seats for the Person with Benchmark Disabilities (PwBD).

Why DU's CSAS Admission Process Matters

DU shifted its admission process has introduced Common University Entrance Test (CUET-UG) to Common Seat Allocation System (CSAS) to make it more transparent and standerdised. Now the admission process doesn't only rely on Class 12 board marks, now it is based on CUET scores, that follows centralised preference-based seat allocation process.

Every year, around lakhs of students tries to take admission in DU because of its quality of education and affordable fees. The multiple release of list gives the students to chance to upgrade their allotment and multiple chances.

However, when the first list of allocation is out, now thousands of students will wait for better options or the second list of allocations in the next round. The admission process will continue till the next few weeks till DU doesn't fill all the seats.