India, July 26 -- Around 12,000 seats are still vacant in undergraduate programmes in Delhi University (DU) after admissions of over 62,000 students were confirmed in the first round, a senior university official said on Friday.

According to DU data, admissions of 62,565 students had been confirmed in the first round of admission through the Common Seat Allocation System (CSAS). This included 34,014 women and 28,551 men.

This year, 93,166 allocations were made against 71,624 seats across 69 colleges.

According to the data, however, the number of vacant seats should be 9,059.

DU dean of admission Haneet Gandhi explained, "There are about 12,000 vacant seats at the moment. This difference in data is due to the extra allocations made in ...