Assam: Cotton University's entrance test for UG admission cancelled

GUWAHATI: The Cotton University has come up with the decision to cancel the entrance examination for the new admission process of the year 2021.

On Saturday, the university authority issued an official notice in connection the announcement in which it mentioned that the admission process will take place fully on merit basis this year. The official notice said the first circular regarding under graduate admission 2021 in Cotton University (vide CU/Acad/UG Admissions/2021/191/490) published on the varsity's website has been withdrawn.

It also notified that the proposed under graduate entrance examination, CUGEE 2021 of the University stands cancelled. Under graduate admission process will be carried out based on marks secured in the qualifying test. The notice was issued with approval of the vice chancellor of Cotton University.

The notice also mentioned that the detailed guidelines for the purpose along with a new date of opening of the online application link would be notified soon.

Formerly known as Cotton College, Cotton University is a public state university in Guwahati. Established in the year 2017, the varsity became one of the top 200 institutions of the country by making it to the band of 150–200 in the National Institutional Ranking Framework rank list in May last year.

Cotton College, which used to be the biggest academic hub in the Northeast (before it became Cotton University), was established in 1901 by Sir Henry Stedman Cotton, the chief commissioner of the erstwhile British province of Assam. In 1948, it became the constituent college of Gauhati University and then that of the Cotton College State University, when the latter (CCSU) was established by an Act of the Assam Government in the year 2011. The Cotton University Act, 2017 was made to chalk out a viable solution to the problems between the college and the varsity.

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