Patna: Patna University (PU) will release the first merit list of applicants selected for admission to the undergraduate courses for the 2025-26 session on June 11. The last date for online submission of application forms for UG admissions in different colleges of PU ended on Thursday.PU students’ welfare dean, Anil Kumar, told the newspaper on Friday that nearly 10,000 applications were received for admission against about 4,500 sanctioned seats in arts, science and commerce streams under regular and self-financed streams.He said that the candidates figuring in the first merit list would have to secure their admission in the four-year degree course (under regular stream) and thee-year degree course (under self-financing stream) between June 13 and 16 as per the allotment of college. Admission from this list would be made in five constituent colleges, namely, Patna College, Patna Science College, Vanijya Mahavidyalaya, B N College and Magadh Mahila College in order of the merit.Kumar said that nearly 12,000 boys and girls have applied for admission against 4500 seats in the regular (conventional) BA, BSc and BCom honours courses as well as self-financing (vocational) courses in different colleges of PU in the 2025-26 session. The merit list of these applicants will be prepared on the basis of marks obtained by them in the plus two (Class XII) examinations as the university did not hold any entrance test for admission this year, he said.Giving the details of the process of admission, Kumar said the merit list of candidates will be uploaded on the PU website on June 11. Candidates will have to download their allotment letter with the help of their application ID and password. Further, after depositing the fee online, candidates would report for admission to the college concerned with the allotment letter, payment slip, print of application form and original as well as photocopies of all their certificates from June 13 to 16. If a candidate fails to get himself admitted till June 16, his claim for admission would automatically lapse, he said.He further said that the second merit list of selected candidates will be announced on June 19 and the candidates figuring in the list would have to secure their admission in their respective colleges from June 21 to 24. The third and final merit list will be announced on June 27 and the candidates figuring in this list will have to secure their admission on June 30 and July 1.The total number of sanctioned seats in undergraduate programmes against which students would be admitted are Patna College (930), Patna Science College (750), B N College (1130), Magadh Mahila College (1156), and Vanijya Mahavidyalaya (525).The vocational courses running in different colleges of PU are Functional English (Patna College and B N College), BCA (B N College, Patna Science College, Magadh Mahila College, and Directorate of Distance Education), BBA (Patna College, B N College, Magadh Mahila College), Biotechnology (Patna Science College and B N College), Mass Communications (Patna College), Environmental Science (Patna Science College) and Social Work (Magadh Mahila College).