For 2025 lateral entry admission through diploma, the first counselling rank list is released after all students complete their document verification and registration, the online registration starts from 6 June and closes on 5 July, and after this, the officials verify all documents submitted, then based on your marks and category, they prepare a rank list and release it around 17 July, this rank tells your position for admission to second year engineering or lateral entry seats, once the ranks are published, you can check your number in the list, then based on that you will be called for counselling rounds, in counselling, you have to choose your college and branch, so it is very important to know your rank, you can check the official website for the latest updates and also use this Careers360 link to check the full counselling schedule and seat process step by step

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