ADMISSION TO ENGINEERING DEGREE COURSES IN KARNATAKA

Professional colleges in Karnataka State, affiliated to the state run Universities, admit students to the Government seats in Medical, Dental and Engineering Educational institutions through Common Entrance Test Karnataka CET every year. A parallel entrance test is held by the Karnataka Private Medical & Dental Colleges Association under the name of Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka (COMEDK). This is used to fill management quota seats of certain engineering/medical/dental colleges in Karnataka. For the year 2007, non-Karnataka students (students not eligible to be considered in the Karnataka quota) were not allowed to appear for CET, instead they could appear for the COMEDK examination.

Karnataka Common Entrance Test

The Karnataka Common Entrance Test is conducted for the purpose of determining the eligibility / merit, for admission of Karnataka candidates to the First year of full time courses in Medical, Dental, Ayurveda, Unani, Homoeopathy, Naturopathy & Yoga, Engineering, Technology and Architecture courses (based on NATA score),in institutions within the State of Karnataka.

ACADEMIC ELIGIBILITY FOR OPEN CATEGORY:

• For Engineering and Technology courses,

The applicant should have passed Karnataka 2nd PUC / 12th Std. or equivalent exam with PHYSICS & MATHEMATICS along with CHEMISTRY / BIO-TECHNOLOGY / COMPUTER SCIENCE / ELECTRONICS / BIOLOGY as optional subjects and ENGLISH

Minimum 45% aggregate marks in the optional subjects, irrespective of marks obtained in the Common Entrance Test.

• For Architecture course

The applicant should have passed Karnataka 2nd PUC / 12th Std. or equivalent exam with MATHEMATICS as a compulsory optional subject

Minimum 50% marks in aggregate in all the subjects in the qualifying examination

A score of minimum of 40% in NATA (National Aptitude Test in Architecture).

MERIT FOR ADMISSION:

Engineering / Technology courses-marks of P,C,M of both qualifying examination and the Common Entrance Test are taken in equal proportions.

Architecture course -marks obtained in both qualifying examination and NATA are taken in equal proportions.

Pattern of Karnataka CET

The Common Entrance Test is held on ONE day in three different sessions. It is an objective type test with no negative marks.

Paper I Physics & Chemistry 120 questions for 120 marks, Duration150 minutes

Paper II Mathematics 60 questions for 60 marks, Duration 80 minutes

The CET Cell will not conduct Aptitude Test for admission of candidates to Architecture course.The candidates who wish to opt for Architecture course should compulsorily appear for NATA Test conducted by the Council of Architecture and should submit a certificate indicating their NATA SCORES to the CET Cell to be eligible for admission.

Probable Date of Karnataka CET

The entrance examination is usually conducted in the month of May

Number of seats

There are 146 Engineering colleges which admit students through CET.

SOME OF THE REPUTED ENGINEERING COLLEGES IN KARNATAKA

1. University Victoria College of Engineering, (UVCE) City Campus, K.R. Circle Bangalore 01 www.uvce.in
2. People's Education Society Institute of Technology (PESIT), Bangalore www.pes.edu
3. RVCollege of Engineering, Bangalore - www.rvce.ac.in
4. BMS College of Engineering, Bull Temple Road, Basavanagudi Bangalore 19 www.bmsce.ac.in
5. M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology (MSRIT),Vidya Soudha, MSRIT Post MSR Nagar Bangalore 59- www.msrit.edu
6. National Institute of Engineering (NIE), Manandavadi road, Mysore 08 www.thenie.com
7. Siddaganga Institute of Technology (SIT), B.H road,Tumkur District,Karnataka www.sit.ac.in
8. Amrita Institute of Technology, Kasavanahalli,Carmelaram P.O Bangalore 59- www.amrita.edu
9. New Horizon College of Engineering, 100ft road,H A L 2nd stage,Indira Nagar Bangalore 08-www.newhorizonindia.edu
10. Sri Jayachandra College of Engineering, (SJCE), Mysore 06 - www.sjce.ac.in

Web site www.kar.nic.in/cet