Bengaluru:Students enrolling in first-year undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD programmes of Delhi University have to deposit higher fees for 2024-25 academic session as compared to last year.
This fee hike will also be applicable to foreign students, seeking admission into various courses of the prestigious university.
The new fee structure for the academic calendar that begins in August was approved by Vice Chancellor Yogesh Singh in June.
The revised fee structure will only be applicable for students joining first-year courses.
According to the new fee structure, the course fee for first-year BTech students has been raised by 3.70 per cent to Rs 2.24 lakh from Rs 2.16 lakh. Meanwhile, the contribution share for the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) has been removed from the fee structure of the department.
Students joining the LLB and MBA courses will also not pay the DUSU contribution while for the rest of the UG and PG courses, the contribution has been increased from Rs 20 to Rs 40.
Fees for the five-year Integrated Law Programmes for the academic year 2024-25 have been hiked by 5 per cent, from Rs 1.90 lakh to Rs 1.99 lakh.
The fees of the four-year Integrated Teachers Education Programme (ITEP), which replaced B.EL.ED under the Faculty of Education, has been increased to Rs 57,400.
Similarly, fee structure has been revised for PhD courses. This has resulted in a 60.22 per cent hike in the overall fees with scholars required to pay Rs 7,130 from the upcoming session as compared to the previous fees of Rs 4,450.
For foreign students seeking admission in MA Hindu Studies at Delhi University, however, will have to pay a reduced course fee. The fees for students from SAARC countries has been reduced from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 50,000 and Rs 1 lakh from Rs 2 lakh for students from non-SAARC countries. In case of Tibetan applicants, they will be exempted from paying university registration fees and additional fee payable to colleges and departments as foreign students.