Banaras Hindu University (BHU) Admission 2027

UG admission 2026-27: CUET UG, then CAP-UG

Every undergraduate seat at BHU and its four colleges is filled on the CUET UG 2026 score. The test is held by the National Testing Agency; BHU holds no entrance of its own. The only additions are a practical test for the performing arts programmes and a practical or physical test where a programme asks for one.

• Sit CUET UG 2026 in the papers listed for your programme. The combination is fixed programme by programme.
• Register separately on BHU's Combined Allotment Program (CAP-UG 2026). Name, photograph, signature, email and mobile number are pulled from the CUET form and cannot be edited.
• For programmes under the NEP curriculum you give preferences for a Major and a Minor subject. Multidisciplinary, skill, ability and value-added courses are allotted later, and Major and Minor may be interchanged at the start of the third semester.
• Upload category, EWS, PwBD or sports certificates during CAP registration. Names must match the CUET record and the qualifying certificate.
• A gap year does not affect eligibility. Two regular degree programmes cannot be pursued at the same time.

NEP programmes run for four years (eight semesters, at least 160 credits) with exit options. Honours with Research is open to only 10% of students, those with a CGPA of 7.5 or more, chosen on merit.

How a tie in CUET UG merit is broken

1. The higher aggregate percentage in the qualifying examination. For B.Sc. and B.Sc. (Hons.) Agriculture only the science subjects are counted.
2. Then the higher aggregate in the best three, four or five Class XII subjects.
3. Then the older candidate.

PG admission 2026-27: CUET PG, then CAP-PG

Postgraduate seats are filled on the CUET PG 2026 score in the paper code printed against each programme, followed by registration on CAP-PG 2026. A few professional programmes, the MBA programmes among them, add a group discussion and personal interview whose combined weight is 20% of the written test marks.

• Institutional preference: up to 25% of the open-category seats go to BHU's own students. These are the BHU (C1) columns of the seat tables. It does not apply to MCA or to Special courses. A BHU student here is one admitted through CUET who passed the qualifying examination from BHU in 2026 or 2025. Seats left vacant in this share return to the open pool.
• There is no minimum age, except where a regulator such as ICAR, AICTE or the Bar Council of India sets one.
• Final-year students can sit CUET PG, but must meet the eligibility by the time of admission.
• In B.P.Ed. and M.P.Ed., 15% of the seats are kept for women; unfilled ones go to men on merit.
• Fees printed against departments, the Mahila Mahavidyalaya and the South Campus are per semester. Fees printed against the four colleges are per year.

PhD admission 2026 (July session)

BHU admits PhD scholars in two cycles a year, the July session and the January session. The 2026 bulletin covers July 2026; the seat matrix of the second cycle is notified later. Each department, centre or school advertises its seats under two modes.

• JRF mode: for holders of a valid Junior Research Fellowship of UGC, CSIR, ICMR, DBT or another national agency. Merit is decided 100% by the interview.
• NET mode: for candidates who qualified UGC or CSIR NET in any of its three categories with a result not older than one year, or GATE 2026. The Institute of Agricultural Sciences uses the ICAR-SRF (Ph.D.) examination. Merit is 70% test percentile and 30% interview percentile.
• Minimum marks: 55% in the qualifying master's degree, 60% for Management Studies.
• The interview carries 30 marks and is held in person only. Under NET mode ten candidates are called per seat (up to 15 with approval); under JRF mode every applicant is called.
• Some departments hold a screening test along with the interview. They are named in the faculty sections of the bulletin.
• A tie is broken in favour of the older candidate.
• Admission does not guarantee a hostel room, and part-time scholars are not eligible for one.

There is also a direct mode against supernumerary seats, for example for permanent teachers and long-serving employees of the university. Those seats are outside the advertised matrix.

Ph.D. fee

Application processing fee: Rs. 600 for General, OBC and EWS, Rs. 300 for SC, ST and PwBD. It is not refunded.

Reservation of seats

Seats are reserved in every course under Government of India rules.

• SC and ST candidates only need to have passed the qualifying examination; no minimum percentage applies, except in law (B.A. LL.B., LL.B. and LL.M.), where 40% is required.
• OBC and PwBD candidates get a 5% relaxation in the minimum marks.
• Where a programme has an upper age limit, it is relaxed by 5 years for SC, ST and PwBD candidates and by 3 years for OBC candidates.
• A reserved-category candidate whose merit equals or beats the last admitted general candidate is counted as general, unless a relaxation was used to get the seat.
• EWS: family income below Rs. 8 lakh a year, with the asset limits of the Government of India rule.

Extra (supernumerary) seats

These seats are over and above the intake printed in the seat tables. Candidates must meet the eligibility of the general category.

• Employee wards: 15% extra seats in every course, special courses included, for children of BHU employees. The colleges keep a similar share for their own employees' children.
• Paid seats: up to 15% extra seats in regular programmes, filled on merit with reservation applied. Special courses have none. A paid seat costs more than a regular one; both fees are in the Courses and Fees section.
• ICAR: 15% extra seats in B.Sc. (Hons.) Agriculture for ICAR nominees.
• Foreign nationals: up to 25% extra seats in UG programmes and 15% in PG programmes. They apply through the Foreign Students' Registry and do not sit CUET.
• Sports: extra seats faculty by faculty, in the table below. A candidate must have appeared in CUET, be cleared by the University Sports Board and pass a fitness and playing-ability test. Not more than half of a faculty's sports seats can go to one course.

Extra seats under the sports quota, UG

Seats and fees of every programme: 23 UG courses, 139 PG courses, Ph.D. in 185 subjects.