bhubaneswar first round of admission of postgraduate pg students will start on friday the provisional allotment of seats for the first round was done on thursday similarly the second selection merit list of undergraduate ug students will be published on friday their admission will also start on friday and continue till september 19official sources said 56080 students including 35622 girls have applied for pg admission but only 42016 students have been considered for the first selection as many as 73 higher educational institutions have participated in the pg admission this year these institutions have only 15709 pg seatsthe higher education department which published the provisional allotment of pg seats for the first round on thursday afternoon allotted 11984 students including 7339 girls in this round they can take admission on friday and saturdayberhampur university topped the first selection cutoff list with 7931 per cent for marine sciencemarine biology subjects it has also set the highest cutoff for environment studies mba tourism and travel studies marine scienceoceanography electronic science and linguisticspn college at khurda topped the cutoff list with 7252 per cent in applied geology fakir mohan university balasore has topped the cutoff mark list in the subjects like urdu journalism and mass communication applied microbiology environmental science anthropology science and population studies similarly utkal university has set the highest cutoff for public administration ancient indian history culture and archaeology and women studies maharaja sriram chandra bhanjadeo university baripada has set the highest cutoff marks in 15 subjectsthe provisional allotment of seats for secondround selection will be published on september 23 2 pm secondround admission for eligible students will be conducted from september 24 and 25 if any seats remain vacant after the first and second rounds of pg admission spot selection will be conducted for thisthe second selection merit list of candidates interested to take admission into ug courses will be published on friday after completion of the first and second round admission a list of vacant seats will be published on the sams website and respective institutions espace at 2 pm on september 20the applicants who fail to get a seat in the first and second selection can apply for spot admission on september 21 22 and 23 the spot selection merit list will be published at 2 pm on september 28 2022