New Delhi: Nearly 30 percent of the first batch of Delhi University (DU) students who can avail themselves of the recently introduced four-year undergraduate programme have chosen to continue into the fourth year, university officials have told ThePrint. The majority of these students have enrolled in social science courses and remain concentrated in the more popular, centrally located colleges.

DU is among the first central universities to adopt the four-year undergraduate programme under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, starting in the academic year 2022–2023. While the four-year programme is the default, students can choose to exit at the end of the first year (certificate), second year (diploma), or third year (degree).

On Thursday, the university held a meeting with affil

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