Tamil Nadu Engineering Admission (TNEA) 2024: Counselling, Dates, Rank List, Choice Filling

Tamil Nadu Engineering Admission 2024 – Procedure

Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (Tamilnadu Engineering admission) is a centralised process through which lakhs of students are admitted to engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu through a single-window counselling process. Earlier, the admission to engineering courses was conducted by Anna University but from 2019 onwards, DoTE is conducting the admissions. The Tamil Nadu counselling process will be held online in four to five rounds. To facilitate the process, around 54 facilitation centres have been established in the state of Tamil Nadu. Based on the area and number of applicants, each district will have one or more Tamilnadu Engineering Admission Facilitation Centres (TFCs) to help students through all the counselling stages. Tamilnadu Engineering Admission Counselling 2022 will start for the General stream in online mode. Shortlisted candidates have to appear for Tamilnadu Engineering Admission 2022 counselling as per their aggregate marks and ranks.

Payment of Counselling Fees: Candidates who have successfully registered for the exam have to pay the counselling fee as per their respective category. The counselling fee for different categories are as follows:

• General/OBC – Rs. 500
• SC/ST – Rs. 250
• For each special reservation category - Rs. 100

Choice filling & locking: Tamilnadu Engineering admission choice filling will be available for all candidates who have paid the initial payment for Tamilnadu Engineering admission counselling. Candidates can enter their choices as per their preferences for courses and colleges. Candidates will get three consecutive days to fill their choices and after that, the system will automatically lock the choices.  

Tentative Tamilnadu Engineering Admission Seat Allotment 2024: After the locking of choices by the candidates, the system will tentatively allot the choice based on rank and the applicant’s order of preferences. The applicants through their login can view the same the following day after locking the choices.

Submission of Allotment Options: After the tentative allotment, the applicant can also either confirm decline or reject the allotment. The allotment option is given to get the applicant’s decision based on the tentative allotment.

Final Seat Allotment: The authority will release the first list of Tamilnadu Engineering admission 2024 seat allotment in online mode. The list of candidates will be prepared solely based on the merit list prepared by the authority, choices filled and category of the candidate. Candidates have to log in to their Tamilnadu Engineering admission account to see the result of seat allotment. Candidates can either accept the seat or surrender the seat to participate in the next round of seat allotment. After confirming the seat, candidates have to report to their allotted institute/college of Tamil Nadu.

Reporting to the respective college/institute for admission: After the final allotment, the applicant has to report to the respective college for Tamilnadu engineering admission within the allotted time. Candidates have to submit the remaining fee (deducting the initial deposit paid to Tamilnadu Engineering admission) at the time of admission to the college. The provisional allotment made to them will be automatically cancelled. However, such candidates can claim a refund of the initial deposit from Tamilnadu Engineering Admission.

Tamil Nadu Engineering Admission 2024 Courses

Various undergraduate courses in engineering like BE and BTech in different specializations will be offered through Tamilnadu engineering admissions:

• Automobile Engineering
• Information Technology
• Biotechnology Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Computer Science Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Electronics & Communication Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Food Technology
• Chemical Engineering

Tamilnadu Engineering Admission 2024 - Round-wise Schedule

The TNEA round-wise schedule will be updated here soon