lucknow if you have applied for ma in mathematics or anthropology at lucknow university you will not have to appear for an entrance test the reason being that the university has more seats in these courses than the total applications received in fact there are 26 courses in which there have been fewer applications than the seats offered so those who have applied will surely get admitted in seven out of these 26 courses the total applications received are in single digit in another 21 courses the number of applications is less than or equal to 20 the admission data released by the university shows that 13732 applications have come for 68 courses which have 4386 seats the highest 2418 applications have come for law followed by 1440 for commerce while there are 1057 applicants for llmthe courses which have fewer applications than the number of seats offered are ma mathematics ma ancient indian history ma anthropolgy ma modern arabic ma arab culture ma persian ma arabic ma population education and rd ma biostatistics ma sanskrit ma urdu ma business economics ma western history ma women studies ma composite history ma forensic sciences ma criminology and criminal justice administration ma public policy ma defense studies ma french ma jyotir vigyan ma linguistics aacharya msc biostatistics msc mass communication in science and technology and msc total quality of managementlu admission coordinator pg admissions prof anil mishra said we have decided not to hold entrance test in 22 courses where applications are fewer than the number of seats entrance tests will be held in 45 courses while ma in public policy course is being closed while the regular courses will run depite poor demand those running in selffinance category could be suspended the selffinance courses with less than 40 aplications are suspended for that year says the university rulebooklu has for this year decided to conduct an entrance test for both undergraduate and postgraduate courses the university is expeced to come out with a entrance tests schedule on saturday june 3 the test will be based on the ug syllabus of lu will be of two hour duration and will comprise three segments candidates will have to attempt questions in the serial order of the question booklet