KARACHI, Nov 15: The admission committee of the University of Karachi on Friday issued a merit list of 2,390 candidates for admission to Master’s classes in various departments for the academic session 2003.
Director Admissions Prof Dr Mohammad Ishaq said that 2,390 seats were available at 35 departments of Science, Arts, Islamic Studies and Commerce faculties. As many as 3,250 candidates had applied for admission.
The admission fees can be deposited at the counters set up at the main University entrance from Nov 18 to 20, during which claims or objections would also be received on the prescribed forms available at the UBL counter on a payment of Rs200.
No application was received for admission to the Bengali department, while only two candidates were placed for admission to the department of Sindhi. A number of seats would also remain vacant in General History, Persian, Islamic History and Philosophy departments, as sufficient applications were not received for admissions.
Admission to all the departments of the faculties of Science and Commerce would remain up to the mark, Dr Ishaq added.
He said the departments where merit lists contained more than 100 candidates included Zoology, Political Science, Economics, Commerce and Urdu. All admissions in the list are provisional and subject to verification of eligibility and documents, including equivalence and original migration certificates, he said, adding that admissions obtained on forged documents or information shall be cancelled and no documents shall be returned nor the fee would be refunded.
The University had offered admissions on merit under three categories: category “K” comprised applicants who passed the prerequisite examinations from educational institutions in Karachi; category “S” included the applicants having passed the required examinations from institutions outside Karachi but in Sindh province, and category “P” consisted of applicants having passed the prerequisite examinations from institutions outside the province.
The candidates were allowed to give a maximum of five choices of departments in their order of preference.
The closing percentage for admission to different departments in the category “K” and the number of seats offered are as follows:
Arabic - 50 (30 seats), Biochemistry - 55 (40), Botany - 51.25 (60) Chemistry (Bio) - 61.06 (60), Chemistry (Maths) - 45 (40), Commerce - 57.14 (100), Economics (Arts) - 57.14 (30), Economics (Science) - 45 (50), Education (BEd) - 61.62 (4), Education (merit)- 53.40 (50), English - 50.57 (40), Genetics - 55.25 (72), Geology - 49.19 (15), Geography, (Arts) - 49.10 (20), Geography (science) - 45 (25), General History (merit) - 45 (70), General History - 45 (30), Islamic History - 45 (100), Islamic Learning with IHS - 45 (20), Islamic Learning - 45 (60), Library Science (Gen) 48.71 (46), Library Science (LSC) - 47.80 (12), Mathematics - 47.36 (50), Microbiology - 58.06 (45).
Mass Communication - 58.67 (35), Persian - 46.70 (30), Philosophy - 45 (60), Physics - 45 (50), Physiology - 60 (25), Pakistan Study (Arts) - 45.90 (30), Pakistan Study (Com) - 52.36 (3), Pakistan Study (Hons) - 58.97 (6), Pakistan Study (Sc) - 46.19 (8), Political Science - 45 (100), Psychology with BA/BSC in psychology - 50.50 (30), Psychology with other majors - 60 (20), Quran and Sunnat - 45 (50), Sociology (Arts) 45.20 (50).
Sociology (Com) - 52.43 (5), Sociology (Sc) - 46.90 (10), Sociology with Home Economics - 45.33 (10), Sindhi - 46.79 (45), Statistics (PGD) - 52.57 (10), Statistics (BA/BSC) - 46.14 (50), Social Work (Bio) 45.10 (5), Social Work (general) - 45 (5), Social Work (Arts) - 49.30 (30), Urdu - 45 (105), Usool-i-deen - 58.40 (50), and Zoology - 45 (110).