Jamia Millia Islamia Drops Five Courses And Waives Exams For Five Others
Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi has discontinued five self-financed academic programmes for the 2026-27 academic session after they received applications for less than half of their sanctioned intake. According to a university notice issued on April 26, the administration has also decided to waive entrance examinations and offer direct admission for five other low-enrolment courses to keep them running.
The five discontinued programmes together account for 145 seats. These are all self-financed courses, which are run without government funding and are sustained entirely through student tuition fees. The university decided to drop these options after they failed to attract enough applicants to cover even half of their capacity.
The discontinued courses include the Master of Hotel Management, which has 30 seats, the PG Diploma in Translation Proficiency in English with 35 seats, and the PG Diploma in Disaster Management with 40 seats. The other two dropped programmes are the Diploma in Leather Goods & Footwear Technology with 30 seats and the MFA in Art Management with 10 seats. Jamia Millia Islamia announced that the application fees for these programmes will be returned to the bank accounts of the applicants.
In contrast, the university will continue to run five other programmes despite them also receiving applications below 50 percent of their capacity. To ensure these courses remain operational, the university is transitioning them to a direct admission model by waiving the standard entrance exams. These five programmes account for a total of 125 seats.
The courses transitioning to direct admission include BA (Hons) Sanskrit with 30 seats, MA Sanskrit with 30 seats, MA Persian with 30 seats, the part-time Diploma in Portuguese with 15 seats, and MSc Biophysics II Semester with 20 seats.
Explaining the administrative decision, Jamia chief PRO Saima Saeed noted that courses such as the Diploma in Leather Goods & Footwear Technology were originally introduced anticipating student interest, but did not see the expected enrolment.
