FAST FACTS

Admission criteria: Haryana State Counselling Society using inter se merit of AIEEE.
Number of Engineering Colleges: 141
Total sanctioned intake: 43,793
Major disciplines: Computer Science; Electronics & Communications; Mechanical

Noteworthy institutions: NIT, Kurukshetra; DCRUST Murthal, Guru Jambheshwar UST, Hisar

HARYANA, through its e-governance initiatives is the first state to introduce “On Line Off Campus” (OLOC) counselling for all technical courses. NIT Kurukshetra, which has a student intake of 700 is one of the best institutions in the state. Admission to BE for over 42,000 seats, is done by Haryana State Counselling Society (HSCS)/National Informatics Centre (NIC) after online payment of a requisite non-refundable counselling fee.

Admission procedure
In 2009-10, admissions were made on the basis of the OLOC counselling, and registrations were done by logging on to www.tehadmissions.gov.in. Three counselling sessions are conducted. After the declaration of result of the first counselling the candidate who is allotted a seat and  willing to accept it, is required to deposit admission fee (Rs. 20,000 in 2009-10) and confirm the admission. Students who have not been allotted any seat till third counselling are unsuccessful.

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The distribution of seats for government/government-aided institutions and university departments are such that the state quota accounts for 85% of total seats and 15% of all-India category seats. Within the state quota, seats are evenly divided between reserved categories of Haryana and general candidates. For private unaided non-minority institutions, 75% seats are filled by HSCS while 25% of total sanctioned intake is filled by private engineering colleges. One seat is reserved in each course/discipline in every institute for admission of toppers of science stream. The minimum qualification is a pass in 10+2 examination or its equivalent examination with Physics and Mathematics as compulsory subjects along with one of the following subjects: Chemistry; Biotechnology; Computer Science or Biology.

Disciplines
Four disciplines account for 85% of  the total sanctioned intake: Computer Science; Electronics & Communications; Mechanical and Information Technology. The district of Sonipat has maximum number of institutions and largest student intake (5460). The bigger institutions with intake of 600 and above are in districts of Kaithal (HCTM); Yamuna Nagar (SJMLIET) and Hisar (GJUST). 70% of the institutes in the state have an intake of 300 or less.