19 January,2026 08:09 AM IST | Mumbai | Aditi Alurkar
The convocation ceremony at the university’s Fort campus on Saturday. Pic/By Special Arrangement
Mumbai University (MU) on Saturday, January 17, awarded degrees to postgraduates from the first batch under the New Education Policy (NEP) at its convocation ceremony held at the Sir Cowasji Jehangir Convocation Hall on the varsity's Fort campus. Degrees were conferred on a total of 1,72,522 students, including 1,49,982 undergraduates and 22,540 postgraduates.
The university also recorded an around 50 per cent rise in PhD graduates compared to the previous academic year, the highest in the last nine years. Of the 603 PhD degrees awarded, the highest number went to students from science and technology, followed by commerce, humanities, and interdisciplinary studies.
Last year, the university awarded 401 PhD degrees, including 230 in sciences, 80 in commerce and management, 51 in humanities, and 40 in interdisciplinary studies, showing a significant rise, particularly in commerce and the humanities. Like every year, MU awarded 23 medals to 21 meritorious students at the ceremony. Female students outnumbered males across both undergraduate and postgraduate courses, with 88,202 women receiving degrees compared to 84,318 men.
As part of its push to digitise academic records, MU has uploaded 29,78,099 records on the NAD-DigiLocker platform. Of these, 4,15,787 marksheets are from academic years 2023-2025, while the remaining belong to earlier batches.
