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1,35,969 engineering seats available in Karnataka's engineering colleges this year
The Higher Education Department (Technical Education and Planning) has released the draft seat matrix for engineering and architecture courses in the State, according to which there are 1,35,969 seats in 217 engineering colleges for the academic year 2025-26. This includes 64,047 seats under government quota.
This number is 5,313 fewer compared to last year . During 2024-25 academic year, a total of 1,41,009 seats, including 66,663 government quota seats, were available in 245 engineering colleges.
However, a senior official of Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) said, 'Some colleges have yet to upload the seat matrix and some colleges are yet to get the approval from the AICTE. After that, the total number of seats available may go up.'
Like every year, this year too, there are a large number of seats available in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) courses. This time, a total of 33,813 CSE seats are available, including 15,754 government quota seats. Last year a total of 35,013 CSE seats, including 16,280 government quota seats, were available. There are 18,492 seats in Electronics and Communication engineering, 8,538 Information Science and Engineering seats available this year.
A total of 2,75,677 students became eligible for counselling after the Common Entrance Test (CET-2025), among which 2,62,195 are for engineering stream against 2.74 lakh students last year .
