Fees
Fees at Delhi University for the Bachelor of Science [B.Sc] in Life Sciences program are approximately INR 16,000 to INR 19,000 per year. The cost structure includes tuition fees, laboratory expenses, and additional academic expenses. Examination fees are around INR 1,400 each semester. Financial assistance is available through various scholarships such as the Inspire Scholarship, the National Scholarship Portal (NSP), the Vidya Basheshar Nath Taneja Scholarship, and the Raj Kumar Jolly Scholarship.
Scholarships are awarded based on merit and family income criteria. While on-campus job opportunities are limited, the university provides laptops to students who cannot afford them, ensuring support for academic success.
Eligibility
Candidates need to have passed higher secondary schooling (Class 12) from a recognised board, with the specific subject combination required depending on which honours discipline is chosen; some subjects ask for a related subject to have been studied at that stage. Admission to Delhi University colleges runs through the university's centralised undergraduate process each year, which weighs the qualifying examination score through a defined process and follows it with counselling rounds rather than a college-set test. The minimum marks needed to be considered, and any category-based relaxation, are decided by the university afresh for every admission cycle, so applicants should rely on that year's official bulletin rather than an earlier one.
About Bachelor of Arts [BA]
The Bachelor of Arts programme at Miranda House, a women's constituent college of the University of Delhi in New Delhi, is an undergraduate course for students who have completed higher secondary schooling and want a rigorous grounding in the humanities and social sciences. Students choose either a single-subject honours track in a discipline such as English, history, economics, political science, sociology or psychology, or a broader programme spanning several subjects, depending on what the college offers that year, and move from foundational papers to more specialised, discussion-heavy coursework as they progress. Teaching combines lectures, tutorials, seminars and extensive reading and writing assignments, with internal assessment running alongside university examinations at the end of each year. The college's long-standing societies, debating and literary culture sit alongside the formal syllabus and are a significant part of what students take from the degree beyond the classroom. Graduates typically move into postgraduate study in their chosen discipline, civil services and other competitive examinations, journalism, law-entrance preparation, teaching, or a wide range of administrative and research-support roles that value strong analytical and writing skills. The sanctioned intake for this BA is split across categories and quotas set by the University of Delhi, and the category-wise seat matrix is published in the university's own admission bulletin for that session, reissued every year, so it is the current bulletin, not an earlier one, that applicants should consult.
