B.Tech

Most of the colleges offering food tech are accepting admission on the basis of JEE rank, so you have to appear for JEE Mains.
But no problem if you haven't appeared for the Mains; there are some institutes that are accepting admission only through their common entrance exam.
You can appear for those or can directly take admission in the college on management quota seats.

Sorry for late reply. It has already out now. I hope you got message from UPES regarding to your result. And, counseling is going to start from 31 May.

Mechanical is the toughest branch but in future, you will get more opportunities for a government job.
But in civil and mechatronics, there are less jobs.
So you should take mechanical branch.

Hey buddy sorry to say that but you cannot get MNIT with these marks as you do not have 75% in class 12th.
You are not eligible for NIT's. Try for state government engineering colleges.

You can go through the official website of the respective college where you get the option for lateral entry in B.Tech.
If you want to get admission in B.Tech lateral entry after diploma, then you will be in the 2nd year of B.Tech directly with the same branch as you had in your diploma.
There are different criteria for all the colleges which take in students on the basis of the score you obtained in diploma.
Hope this answers your question.
All the best.
Thank You.

No it's differ B.Tech has high fees as compare to integrated M.Sc.

For CS, its ranking is not that good. But for petroleum engineering, its ranking is 3rd all over India. Still, CS branch gets good placements in UPES.
But at last, it's up to you.

The fee structure for B.Tech students who joined through Andhra Pradesh eamcet is 10,000/- per annum (without hostel). .

The total academic fee (with out hostel) for above 10000 ranks is 1,08,000/- and they if you are eligible to get fee reimbursement then you get 35000/- fee concession.