Cotton University, which is a participating institution of the SEBA online portal, invites application for admission to Higher Secondary (HS) 1st-year classes.

Applications are invited for admission to both Science and Arts streams of HS 1st-year.

Cotton University has been receiving applications from students who have passed the HSLC examination under SEBA through its portal http://anneswan.sebaonline.org/.

The last date for application through this portal is July 15.

All HSLC passed students under SEBA, who wish to get admitted to HS classes in Cotton University, are encouraged to use the above portal for submitting their applications.

The University will also soon open its own application portal for Higher Secondary admissions, which would be made accessible through the Cotton University website https://cottonuniversity.ac.in.

"Students who have passed their qualifying Class X equivalent examination from CBSE or any Board other than SEBA will have to apply through this application portal," said Sanjay Kumar Dutta, Academic Registrar, Cotton University.

"The admission process will be made fully online as directed by the state government," he further said.

For admission, the students have to first generate the Unique Id in the portal of the Office of the Director, Higher Education, Assam.

As per DHE’s order dated 4/7/2020, generating the Unique Id by students is compulsory for online admission.

The online admission procedure has been adopted by the universities and colleges across the state due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has brought life to a standstill.

It may be mentioned here that in 2020, a total of 3,42,224 students appeared this year in HSLC examination.

Of them, 48,278 passed with first division marks, 77,850 in the second division, and 95,829 in the third division.

The overall pass percentage of HSLC examination this year is 64.80, an increase from last year’s 60.23 per cent.

The break-up of pass percentage for male and female candidates in the HSLC examination stands at 66.93 and 62.91 respectively.