New Delhi, July 24 -- As many as 62,565 undergraduate seats have been filled at Delhi University at the end of the first round of admissions, which is nearly 88 per cent of the total available UG capacity.

The upgrade window for the next round has now been opened and will remain live till 4:59 pm on July 25.

Of the confirmed admissions, 34,014 are female and 28,551 are male candidates. A total of 143 orphan students (77 females and 66 males) and 949 single girl children have secured seats.

While 16,126 candidates have frozen their admission, 43,741 have opted for an upgrade.

DU had allocated over 93,000 seats in the first round, significantly exceeding its actual undergraduate seat capacity of just over 71,000, to account for withdraw...