Central Universities Common Entrance Test


The Central Universities Common Entrance Test is an all-India test is being organized for admission to various Integrated/Under-Graduate, Post Graduate and Research Programmes in several Central Universities and State Universities of India. From its inception in 2010, the CUCET is conducted/coordinated by the Central University of Rajasthan.

History

CUCET was first conducted to admission for seven central universities for 1,500 seats in 41 undergraduate, postgraduate and integrated courses from 2010. The application form was filled up through CUCET-2010 which held on 19 and 20 June 2010 in about 30 examination centres spread across the country.

Exam pattern and structure

All Question Papers are MCQ based organized into different parts.

For UI and PG programmes

For UI & PG Programmes, negative marking scheme is followed with a deduction of 0.25 marks for each wrong answer. However, the negative marking is not followed for research programmes.

Duration

2 Hours

Organizing body

is coordinating the CUCET in 2020.

Application fees

Only online applications are accepted for CUCET-2020 and application fees for various categories are listed below.
CategoryUI & PGResearch Programmes
General/OBC/EWS Applicants₹​ 800₹​ 1000
SC/ST Applicants₹​ 350₹​ 450
PWD ApplicantsNilNil

Participating universities

Admission in the following universities is done through CUCET.
Central UniversitiesState Universities

  • Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University
  • Bengaluru Dr. B. R. Ambedkar School of Economics University
  • Khallikote University
  • Sardar Patel University of Police, Security and Criminal Justice