A national-level entrance test-cum-scholarship test, CUCET 2021, announced by Chandigarh University is a novel attempt to search for budding talents and motivate them to pursue their dream careers by offering them a scholarship to overcome the financial barriers. This was stated by Union Minister for Education, Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal, during the launch ceremony.
Academic scholarships worth ₹33 crore would be given to students in more than 135 undergraduate and postgraduate courses offered by the university. The meritorious students, on the basis of their CUCET-2021 scores, can get scholarships up to 100% academic fee.
Students can fill out an online application form at www.cucet.cuchd.in for appearing for the online entrance test-cum-scholarship test with the flexibility of choosing date and time slots. The test would be conducted in two phases where the first phase would run from December to May.
Dr Pokhriyal said, “We have often witnessed cases of dropouts in the Indian education system where meritorious students have to opt out of higher education due to financial constraints. CUCET-2021 is an attempt to plug these dropout cases as it offers a helping hand for such talented students from all across India.”
Prof Satbir Singh Sehgal, registrar of Chandigarh University, said, “The entrance test would be compulsory for students aspiring to seek admission to Engineering, Pharmacy, MBA, 5 Years Integrated Under-Graduate Law Programs, Agriculture while the test would also offer academic scholarships for all the 135 UG and PG programmes offered by Chandigarh University.”
Dr Sehgal further added that, “Students can apply for CUCET-2021 through online and offline mode where the applications are available at university website and regional centres of university across 21 states and UTs.”
The university is offering scholarships on 10% of the total seats in every undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
