State prepares for FYJC admissions

MUMBAI: For the upcoming First Year Junior College (FYJC) admissions, the state education department has declared 1,538 colleges for Arts, Science, Commerce and Higher Secondary Vocation Course (HSVC) in Mumbai and Thane, with the available seats for the centralised admission process being 70,192.

The colleges include those with Hindi, Marathi, English and Urdu mediums. The online admissions will commence as soon as the class 10 results are declared, that is, in the second week of June.

The total number of colleges is 800, however, if the colleges are bifurcated according to the streams and courses the count goes up 1,538.

Out of this, 266 colleges are for the Arts stream, while 709, 500, 63 for Commerce, Science and HSVC respectively.

In all these colleges, the intake capacity is approximately 2,98,405 which is expected to increase as the registration by the colleges to the state education department will continue for a couple of more days.

As of seats, out of the 70,192 seats, 8,306 belong to Arts, 41,338 are for Commerce, and 19,909 are for Science and 639 for HSVC (MCVC).

This year, HSVC (Minimum Competency Vocational Courses) will be included in the online admission unlike last year.

Last year, the students had to take offline admissions for these courses, which become chaotic for both the students and colleges. Hence, a decision was taken for all the bifocal courses of the FYJC admissions.