The admission process for professional courses, including engineering and medicine and others for the academic year 2025-26, has begun, and 26,555 seats remain un-allocated this year due to various reasons, including the option entry with emphasis on only limited colleges.
The final result of the seat allotment for professional courses was announced by the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) on August 2. Accordingly, a total of 1,35,954 seats in various professional courses are available for allotment through KEA for the current academic year in Karnataka. Out of these, only 1,09,399 seats have been allotted to candidates.
Many seats remain unallocated in the B.Sc. Nursing course. Out of the total 31,726 seats available in B.Sc. Nursing, only 15,186 seats have been allotted, and 16,540 seats are yet to be allotted.
Out of the 77,140 seats available in engineering courses, 71,813 seats have been allotted, leaving 5,327 seats unallocated to any student.
Out of the 9,263 seats available in medical courses, 8,321 seats have been allotted, leaving 942 seats pending.
In B.Sc. Allied Health Sciences, 1,329 seats are yet to be allocated.
Why did this happen?
“Without checking their ranks and cut-off marks, students have taken option entry for only four to five colleges as their first choice in the hope of getting a seat in top colleges. Due to minimum number of colleges being selected, thousands of students, despite having good rank in Common Entrance Test (CET), have not got a seat in any college. In the wake of such option entry with emphasis on limited colleges, when the mock allotment result was announced, about 51,935 students were not allotted a seat in any college,” according to a KEA official.
Also, while a small number of candidates have applied for special category quota seats, including rural, Kannada medium, Non-Resident Indian (NRI) quota and others, those quota seats have also remained vacant without being allotted to any student, KEA sources said.
H. Prasanna, Executive Director of KEA, told The Hindu, “Since students have given option entry to only a limited number of colleges, the number of seats remaining unallotted ranges between 35% and 40%. We have been advising students to give option entry to more colleges since the beginning, but they have not followed it. Otherwise, seats under various quotas remain unallotted due to non-availability of candidates. For example, most of the seats remaining unallotted in medical seats are NRI quota seats.”
“The unallotted seats in the first round will be given for the option entry in the 2nd and 3rd rounds. The various quota seats not allotted to any candidates will be converted into general merit seats in the final round, and option entry will be given. For example, if there are no candidates available for rural and Kannada medium quota seats, those seats will be converted into general merit seats. SC/ST rural quota seats will be converted into SC/ST regular seats, and option entry will be given. This will fill almost all the seats,” Mr. Prasanna explained.
Published – August 04, 2025 04:08 pm IST
