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Engg admissions see new high as 75% seats filled after round 3 counselling

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August 21, 2025

THE Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA) this year has recorded the highest uptake of seats, at least, compared to the last five years, with over 75% of the total available seats taken after the third and final round of general counselling, as per the data released by TNEA on Wednesday.

- BINITA JAISWAL @ Chennai

This is an increase of nearly 10 percentage points compared to the 66.39% seats taken last year at this stage. The increase in uptake is in spite of the total number of seats going up by nearly 10,000 this year. Of the 1,72,589 seats available in 423 colleges this year, 1,30,077 (75.36%) have been taken.

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