Ahmedabad: 27,619 candidates allotted to colleges on the basis of choice given by the students in the mock test round of admission by The Admission Committee of Professional Courses.
As a result, 22,194 seats in various engineering colleges were found vacant at the end of the mock test round. This year there are about 62,000 seats for degree engineering courses.
The admission is for 16 government-run, for grant-in-aid, one autonomous, and 113 self-financed colleges this year. Of the total seats, about 53,400 are to self-financed colleges. Last year, for the 64,000 seats available, 28,748 admissions were confirmed, leaving a large number of seats vacant. In all, there are about 62,000 seats for degree engineering courses this year.
The new academic year is expected to start in the month of September after the declaration of the first round of the allotment lists by mid-September.