The Higher Education Department (Technical Education and Planning) notified the seat matrix for engineering and architecture courses in the State, with 1,51,436 from 245 engineering colleges available for the academic year 2025-26.

This includes 71,303 seats under government quota, 31,703 seats under COMED-K quota, and 5,765 seats under super numerary quota.

Compared to the previous year, this year the total number of engineering seats has increased by 10,427. During 2024-25 academic year, a total of 1,41,009 seats were available.

Like every year, this year too there are a large number of seats are available in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) courses. This time, a total of 38,178 CSE seats are available; last year, it was 33,573 CSE seats. In addition, 20,208 seats in Electronics and Communication engineering, 9,108 Information Science and Engineering and 8,960 Mechanical Engineering seats are available this year.

A total of 6,255 seats are available in Government Engineering Colleges. There are a total of 2,950 seats in aided engineering colleges, 95,236 seats in private unaided colleges, 10,440 seats in minority engineering colleges, 760 seats in University of Visvesvaraya College Engineering (UVCE), 33,120 seats in private universities, 2,280 seats in deemed universities and 395 seats available in government colleges with higher fees.

The State government has not given a no-objection certificate for an increase in intake for two colleges that were suspected to be part of the engineering seat blocking scam last year. BMS College of Engineering had applied for 120 more seats in Computer Science, and New Horizon College of Engineering had applied for 240 Artificial Intelligence and 660 CSE seats.

This year, a total of 2,75,677 students qualified in the Common Entrance Test (CET-2025), and 2,62,195 for engineering stream. Last year it was 2.74 lakh students who qualified to get into engineering courses.