India, May 28 -- As approximately 850 colleges affiliated with the University of Mumbai announced their first general merit list for degree admissions on Tuesday, the lower cut-off percentages for traditional courses as compared to last year, as well as the higher cut-off for professional courses told a story.

At St Xavier's College, Dhobi Talao, the cut-off dropped by 1.83 percentage points compared to last year (90% as opposed to last year's 91.83%) for the traditional Bachelor of Arts (BA) courses. Analysing the trend, Rajendra Shinde, principal of St Xavier's College, said, "This year, we introduced two new courses, BA Psychology and Economics and BA Economics and Statistics for which we had a higher cut-off compared to traditional c...