More Than 11,600 Engineering Seats Remain vacant in Telangana

A staggering 11,638 undergraduate seats in the engineering colleges have no takers after the Telangana Engineering, Agriculture and Pharmacy Common Entrance Test (TG EAPCET) 2025 final phase seat allotment released on Sunday.

While a total of 91,649 seats were up for grabs in 180 engineering colleges, including 156 private, 21 university and two private universities, 80,011 seats, including 4,720 new allocations, were allotted to students.

At 9,696, the highest number of vacant seats were in the private



engineering colleges, followed by 1,793 seats in university colleges, which saw 72.2 per cent seat allotments. As many as 51 colleges, including five universities and 46 private colleges, have recorded 100 per cent seat allocation.

The government engineering college in Kosgi, which was established in Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy’s Kodangal constituency as the first engineering college under Commissioner of Technical Education, has failed to attract students. Only 28.2 per cent of 198 seats in this institution were allotted.