Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, formerly Indraprastha University is a state government university located in Delhi, Dwarka. Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University conducts IPU CET exam every year so that students can apply to various undergraduate and postgraduate courses in colleges which are affiliated to GGSIPU. Full form of IPU CET is (Indraprastha University common entrance test ). Students join engineering, law, administration, computer application, journalism, mass communication, management, nursing , medical and many more fields. There are 120 colleges affiliated to Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University of New Delhi.
Out of 120 colleges, 35 colleges are government institutes affiliated to Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi. The remaining 85 colleges are self financed institutes affiliated to Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University. The colleges which are affiliated with IPU offer multiple undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD courses in multiple fields like engineering, management, nursing, medical, finance and many more.
Admission can be done in two ways, counselling and direct admission. When a student goes through the IPU counselling process, then the student has to participate in counselling by paying a fee online. Then the next step is registration, upload documents, document verification and choice filling (where students choose some of the colleges which they like and want to get admitted there). Then the student has to wait for seat allotment through various rounds of counselling.
The counselling process takes 1-2 months time to get a college allotted. There are various rounds of counselling – first round, second round, third round, sliding around and spot round. The main important thing is that the student should be happy with the college he/she is allotted. If the student is not happy with the college allotted, then the student enters the next round of counselling until the student is happy about the allotment of college.
Spot round is conducted by GGSIPU after all the rounds of counselling, some of the colleges would have vacant seats left in various courses. The student who was not allotted any college during all rounds of counselling or student who was not happy with allotment goes for spot round and gets college allotted. When the student goes for a spot round, the student may or may not get college allotted. Sometimes vacant seats are very few, sometimes there are 15-60 seats vacant. So it depends on the number of seats vacant. Spot counselling can turn out to be fruitful for some students. So students would go for it at their own risk.