NEET-UG applications surge for 9th year in a row, record 24L for 2024-25 Up 3L From ’23-’24, Highest Jump In 7 Yrs
Manash.Gohain@timesgroup.com
New Delhi : The National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test Undergraduate (NEET-UG) has bettered its record for the ninth straight year with 23.8 lakh registrations for the 2024-25 academic year for admissions to medical/dental and allied health programmes. The addition of a little over 6,000 seats in govt colleges for 2024-25 academic year, however, has made the competition marginally easier with 42.2 aspirants per seat, one of the lowest in the past eight years.
The entrance test saw an increase of 2.9 lakh registrations from its 2023-24 count, recording the highest jump in the past seven years. From 2017, when it breached the 10 lakh mark, the increase till now has been 12.4 lakh. NEET-UG is by far the biggest entrance exam in India, as it leaves behind CUET-UG 2023 (application under way for 2024) by over five lakh. NEET-UG registration’s first big jump was in 2017 (11.3 lakh) when it crossed the 10 lakh mark from eight lakh in 2016. Thereafter, barring the two Covid years (2020 and 2021), the increase in applications has been more than 11% every year. Till 2023, the increase in number of seats in govt col leges has not been proportional to the rise in number of applicants. Between 2021 and 2022, the number of aspirants rose by 16 percentage points as against 2.9 percentage point rise in seats.
In 2023, the increase in seats was 11 percentage points, marginally lower that the increase in number of aspirants (11.5). After a decade, in 2024 the increase percentage of seats (17) has been higher than that of candidates (14.1), thereby making it the year of best seat-to-candidate ratio (1:42.2) in nine years (barring the 2021 Covid year). The number of seats in govt colleges in 2024 is 56,385 across 706 colleges (up from 322 in 2023, the biggest increase in the last 15 years), up from 48,212 in 2023 and 43,435 in 2022. The biggest increase in seats was in 2021 when 8,329 seats were added to the 2020 tally of 33,893.
For over a decade now, females have outnumbered males in this medical entrance test. This year is no different with the highest-ever (57.2%) female participation. In 2023, it was 56.7% and 53.5% in 2022 and 51% in 2019.
UGC: Check list of debarred univs before enrolling A head of the 2024-25 academic session, University Grants Commission cautioned students seeking enrolment in programmes offered under Open and Distance Learning (ODL) and/or Online Learning (OL) mode on Wednesday. In a public notice the regulator stated that Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Maharashtra, Sri Venkateshwara University, Andhra Pradesh and Periyar University Tamil Nadu have been debarred from offering ODL/ online programmes. TNN
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