patna even as firstyear classes of degree courses commenced in most of the colleges under patna university on tuesday all seats in undergraduate courses have still not been filled up even after third cutoff list has been released randhir kumar admission in charge patna college said till now 488 students have been admitted in different degree courses and a total of 112 seats are empty the admission date has been extended till august 13 students are more interested in vocational courses as regular courses have lower prospects of early job moreover compared to last year when onethird of the total seats were occupied by girls the number of girls admitted this year will hardly reach 5060 in patna college said kumar when asked if it was due to entrance tests for the courses introduced for the first time by pu kumar said students from rural areas had high marks but have not been able to clear entrance tests and vice versa is the case with urban students but the written tests have improved the quality of students so many seats are vacant across colleges the university will have to face financial losses this session adds kumar md faiyaz ahsan assistant professor department of chemistry b n college said students have not come forward to take admission despite lowering the cutoff marks in the science stream alone there are 42 vacancies in the maths section and more than 100 in biology section he added candidates have just not turned up despite the release of second and third lists pushplata professor in the department of political science and in charge of admission to the arts stream in magadh mahila college said till now 415 students have been admitted but admission on sports fine arts and other quotas still remains to be done a few seats are vacant in patna science college as well the college principal a k sinha says about 2025 seats are vacant even after the third cutoff list and admission on various quotas is still being done he added the entrance test system is fine because with cutoff marks even students with lower percentage can get admission he said