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As the admission fever has started, it is important to understand the different classification of Engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu and their admission procedure. This will help aspiring students and parents to prepare for the admissions.

For the benefit of students, we are also sharing the last Year cut off for OC category for Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) branch for sample colleges in these categories. Complete details of all categories have been mentioned in the link as well.

Engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu can be classified into the following :

1. Anna University Departments : These include campuses of Anna University, Guindy, MIT College in Chromepet etc. Here the cut off is extremely high and fees are relatively lesser. Cut off for Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) branch in Anna University was 200.
2. Government engineering colleges : These include colleges like Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, Government College of Engineering, Salem, Government Engineering College, Erode etc. Here cut -off is slightly lesser and fees are less. Cut off in Government College of Technology, Coimbatore for CSE branch was 197.5
3. Government Aided Colleges : These include Premium Institutions like PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Coimbatore Instititute of Technology, Coimbatore, Thiyagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai etc. These are reputed institutions, hence one has to get a good cut-off for admissions. However fees are less. Cut off for CSE (SS) branch in PSG College of Technology was 199.5
4. Self financing colleges : These include colleges like Sriram Engineering College, RMK Engineering college, Velammal Engineering College etc. In the self financing colleges, cut -off varies depending on the college and fees are relatively higher. Also Self financing colleges provide an option of getting management quota seats where in you can get the seats before Engineering counselling itself.
   • Management quota seats are provided either with a higher fee every year or with a one time fee during admission.
   • Cut off for Rajalakshmi Engineering College for CSE branch was 193.5 while cut off for Sri Muthukumaran Institute of Technology for the same branch for the same OC category was 158.
   • The above shows that there is a wide range in the cut off marks for the same category and same course within self financing colleges.
5. Private Universities : These include insitituitions like Vellore Institute of Technology, Amrita University, Shiv Nadar University etc.
   • In these private Universities, admission is based on :
   • 1) IIT JEE scores and or
   • 2) Entrance exam scores conducted by them .
   • Most of the private Universities would have conducted their exams by now or exams might be going on.
   • These universities publish their rank list and based on the ranking , students get admission to the different courses.
   • Also fees varies depending on the rank.

In the above classification , except for Private Universities all other college admissions are based on the Engineering cut off which is arrived from the Higher secondary marks.

We hope that the above details on classification of Engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu and their admission procedure helps the students .