Admission to the first semester of B.Com. Degree course shall be open to a person who has passed one of the following examinations conducted by a recognized Board/Council/University.

1. +2 examination or B.Com.- Part-I (Old scheme) of Panjab University with three of the following subjects securing at least 45 per cent marks in the aggregate:-

   1. Commerce (or theory of commerce or foundation course in commerce)
   2. Accountancy (or book keeping and accountancy)
   3. Economics
   4. Business Organization (or Business Management or Theory and Practice of Management)
   5. Insurance (or General Insurance or Life Insurance)
   6. Banking and Trade
   7. Commercial Geography
   8. Office Management and Secretarial Practice (or Office Organization and Management)
   9. Mercantile Law (or any Company Law)
   10. Auditing
   11. Typewriting and Stenography/Computers (for typewriting)

   Additional subjects:

   1. Accountancy/Accounts/Accounting
   2. Accounting for Business
   3. Advance and Foreign Exchange
   4. Advanced Maths & Computer Applications
   5. Auditing
   6. Banking
   7. Booking Keeping and Accountancy
   8. Business Economics & Quantitative Methods
   9. Business Mathematics
   10. Business Organization & Management
   11. Business Studies
   12. Business Studies II
   13. Capital Market Operations
   14. Commerce
   15. Computerized Accounting II
   16. Cost Accounting
   17. Derivative Market Operation
   18. Economics Geography
   19. Economics
   20. E-Commerce
   21. Elements of Accounting
   22. Elements of Cost Accounting and Auditing
   23. Elements of Cost Accounting
   24. Entrepreneurship
   25. Factory Organisation/Office Administration/Financial Accounting
   26. Financial Market Management
   27. Fundamental of E-Business
   28. Human Resource Management
   29. Income Tax
   30. Informatics Practices
   31. Insurance
   32. Introduction to Financial Markets
   33. Investment Management
   34. Legal Studies
   35. Management and Marketing of Insurance
   36. Management of Resources
   37. Marketing
   38. Marketing and Salesmanship
   39. Marketing Management and Retail Business
   40. Materials Management
   41. Mathematics
   42. Mathematics (B)
   43. Management of Bank Office
   44. Modern Office Practice-II
   45. Office Communication
   46. Office Procedures and Practices
   47. Organization of Commerce
   48. Principles and Practices of Life Insurance
   49. Principle of Management & Economics
   50. Retailing
   51. Retail Management
   52. Salesmanship
   53. Secretarial Practices and Accounting
   54. Shorthand
   55. Statistics
   56. Store Accounting
   57. Type Writing
   58. Theory and Practice of Commerce
   59. Taxation

2. +2 Examination with at least two of the subjects mentioned in (a) securing at least 50% marks in aggregate.

3. +2 examination who does not covered in (a) and (b) securing at least 55% marks.

4. Any other examination recognized by the University as equivalent to (a) or (b) or (c) as given above with requisite percentage of marks given under each clause.

Provided that a candidate seeking admission to the first semester of B.Com. should have passed in the subject of English at the +2 examination and in cases where passing in English is not necessary according to the regulations of certain Boards/Bodies/Councils/Universities in India, the admission of the candidate shall be provisional and will be confirmed only after he/she has cleared the subject of English as a deficient subject from the parent Board/Body/Council/University in two consecutive chances subsequent to his/her admission. In case a candidate does not clear the relevant subject at any of the two consecutive chances allowed to him/her subsequent to the date of his/her admission, his/her provisional admission to the course shall stand cancelled.

Provided further that:-

A candidate who has been placed under compartment in the +2 examination conducted by a Board/Body/Council/University in India shall be eligible to seek admission to the First Semester of B.Com course, provided he/she fulfills the following conditions:-

1. He/she should have been placed in compartment in one subject only;
2. He/she should have obtained at least 20% marks in the subject in which he/she had been placed in compartment and;
3. He/she should have obtained the requisite percentage of marks in the aggregate of the examination as laid down in the relevant regulations.

The admission of the candidate with a compartment as indicated above shall be provisional and will be confirmed only after he/she has cleared the compartment in two consecutive chances subsequent to his/her admission. In case the candidate does not clear the compartment at any of the two consecutive chances allowed to him/her subsequent to the date of his/her admission, his/her provisional admission to the course shall stand cancelled.

Subject to the reservation made by the University, the admission shall be on merit. The merit for this purpose shall be determined on the basis of the score of a candidate to be computed as follows:-

1. Percentage of marks in the qualifying examination;
2. Add score of 4 for each of the subjects passed from the subjects referred in above list not exceeding 16 in total.

Explanation: -In case of a compartment candidate, eligibility shall be determined by including the marks of the subject in which the candidate has been placed in compartment.

NOTE: - The candidates securing less than 20% marks in the subject of compartment at the +2 examination be made eligible to join B.A./B.Sc./B.Com. Part-I courses, if they clear or secure 20% or more marks in the subject in the Supplementary Examination held in July/August, on or before the last date for admission with late fee with the permission of the Hon’ble ViceChancellor, provided the seat(s) is/are available.