Draft engineering matrix for 2025 sees drop in available seats in Karnataka
Bengaluru: With at least eight colleges yet to get their seats approved by the regulatory authorities, the draft seat matrix for engineering for 2025-26 has seen a drop of at least 2,616 CET seats.
As per the draft matrix released by the higher education department Friday, there are 1,35,969 engineering seats available in the state. Of these, 64,047 will be filled through Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) counselling. In the final seat matrix of last year, there were a little over 1.4 lakh seats available and 66,663 seats to be filled through CET quota.
"The decrease is because some of the institutions asked for closure and reduction of some courses.
While we have a few proposals regarding an increase, they are still under consideration. The delay is on account of late approval from AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education), which we'll update in the final draft," said KG Jagadeesha, secretary to higher education.
Around 120 colleges applied for changes. "While those for closure were immediately approved, those seeking an increase need further scrutiny from our side to ensure that the criteria are met," he added.
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While 145 private colleges were counted last year, this time only 141 are present in the matrix currently. Similarly, two more aided colleges, one govt college, and one private unaided minority college are missing from the matrix at present.
There are 133 different engineering streams that are up for grabs. A large majority of these are computer science and allied programmes. In mechanical engineering, there are 4,493 seats, down from 4,844 last year.
In civil engineering, there are 4,149 CET seats, as against 4,533 last time.
"The increase in computer science seats seems to have stabilised this year. Last year, there was a rampant increase in CS and allied programmes. Some colleges increased it by even 1,000 seats. That trend is missing this time," said a college principal.
The state govt is also looking to maintain a limit on increase of CS seats. "It's too late to take any decision on it for this year. But we'll consider bringing some regulations on this from next year," said higher education minister MC Sudhakar.
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