A total of 107 admission seekers will contest for each seat in the first-year honours admission test of Jahangirnagar University (JU) for the academic session 2023-24.
This year, a total of 197,359 admission seekers will contest for only 1,844 seats, according to JU Deputy Registrar (Education) and Member Secretary of Admission Test Managing Committee Syed Mohammad Ali Reza.
The deadline for application ended at 11:59pm on Wednesday.
According to the admission test managing committee, the Biological Sciences faculty ‘D Unit’ gets a total of 69,281 applications, which is the highest number of applications among the faculties.
Besides, 50,312 students applied for 446 seats under ‘A Unit’ (Mathematical and Physical Sciences Faculty and Institute of Information Technology); 17,654 applicants for 386 seats under ‘B Unit’ (Social Sciences Faculty and Law Faculty); 39,738 applicants for 388 seats under ‘C Unit’ (Arts and Humanities Faculty and Bangabandhu Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture); 4,210 applicants for 64 seats under ‘C1 Unit’ (Drama and Dramatics, Fine Arts Department); 12,645 applicants for 200 seats under ‘E Unit’ (Business Studies Faculty); and 3,519 applicants for 50 seats under Institute of Business Administration-JU.
This year's admission test will continue from February 22 to February 29.