Miranda House

What are the cutoffs for Miranda House in 2026?

Miranda House admits students to all its undergraduate courses in 2026 strictly through CUET UG 2026 scores, processed via the University of Delhi's CSAS portal (ugadmission.uod.ac.in); there is no separate entrance test or board-marks cutoff. The official 2026 closing scores will be published only after CUET UG 2026 results (the exam runs from 11 May to 31 May 2026, with the CSAS allocation rounds expected from June 2026). As a benchmark, in 2025 the toughest programme, B.A. (Hons.) Political Science, closed Round 1 for the General category at a CUET merit score of 925.98, while B.A. (Hons.) English closed at 863.02 and B.A. (Hons.) Economics at 850.31. Science honours such as B.Sc. (Hons.) Zoology (around 572) and B.Sc. (Hons.) Physics (around 450) closed noticeably lower, so a candidate's realistic chances depend heavily on the specific course.

Miranda House is one of Delhi University's most sought-after government women's colleges (established 1948, North Campus) and was ranked No. 2 among all Indian colleges in NIRF 2024 with a score of 73.22, after holding the No. 1 position for eight consecutive years. That reputation is exactly why its arts and humanities cutoffs sit among the highest in the country, and why aspirants should treat the figures below as the bar to clear.

Year-Wise Cutoff Trends (2024-2026)

The table below tracks Miranda House's indicative category-wise CUET merit cutoffs for flagship courses across 2024, 2025 and the expected 2026 band. It answers the core question every aspirant asks: how much does the bar move each year, and how much lower is it for reserved categories? Read each row as the minimum CUET merit score a candidate in that category needed to secure a seat; the 2026 column is an expectation derived from the stable 2024-2025 trend, because official 2026 figures release only after CUET results. Figures are on Delhi University's category-wise merit scale used by CSAS for reserved-category allocation.

The standout takeaway is stability at a very high level: Miranda House's top humanities cutoffs barely moved between 2024 and 2025, holding near 770-775 for the General category, which signals saturated demand rather than year-on-year volatility. The category gap is consistent too, with OBC closing roughly 30-35 points below General, SC about 50-55 points lower, and ST roughly 65-70 points lower. For 2026, aspirants should plan for the same band or a marginal upward drift, not a drop.

Course-Wise Cutoff at Miranda House

This table breaks down the actual 2025 CUET UG Round 1 General-category closing merit scores by individual programme, so applicants can match their own CUET aggregate against the specific course they want. It answers the practical question: which Miranda House courses are realistically within reach at my score? Read each figure as the lowest CUET merit score that still secured a General-category seat in Round 1 of 2025; arts honours run highest, while science honours close materially lower because fewer CUET candidates opt for the relevant science subject combinations at this humanities-strong women's college.

The clear pattern is a steep arts-versus-science split at Miranda House: Political Science, History, English and Economics all demanded merit scores above 850 in 2025, whereas the science honours closed between roughly 439 and 572. The practical implication is that a strong all-round CUET aggregate is essential for the humanities seats, but a candidate with solid science-subject scores has a genuinely easier path into B.Sc. (Hons.) Chemistry or Physics. Note that DU's official CSAS scores (above) sit on the full CUET aggregate scale and run higher than the indicative category-merit figures in the previous table, but both show the same competitiveness order.

Cutoff Trend Analysis

Miranda House's cutoff is broadly rising-to-flat for arts and stable for science, and the data explains why. With the college ranked No. 2 nationally in NIRF 2024 and a fixture in the top two for nearly a decade, applicant volume for its humanities honours consistently outstrips the limited seats, so the General-category bar for Political Science (925.98 in 2025 Round 1), English (863.02) and Economics (850.31) stays pinned near the top of Delhi University's range. Because CUET scores cluster tightly at the high end, even a small dip in your aggregate can push you below the closing score, which is why the year-on-year movement looks small but the competition is brutal.

Realistically, a General-category aspirant targeting the flagship arts honours at Miranda House should aim for a CUET merit score in the upper 800s to low 900s (effectively 99-plus percentile in the counted subjects) to be safe in Round 1, while mid-to-high 700s on the category-merit scale is the working threshold for OBC, and high 600s to low 700s for SC and ST. For the science honours, a General-category candidate scoring in the 450-580 band has a fair shot, with Chemistry and Physics being the most accessible. Aspirants who narrowly miss Round 1 should not give up, because later CSAS rounds and spot allocations often settle a few points lower as seats are vacated.