ICAR Counselling 2025: Choice filling begins for UG, PG, PhD admissions; complete schedule
Anu Parthiban | October 14, 2025 | 10:32 PM IST | 3 mins read
The revised ICAR 2025 counselling brochure for PG and PhD courses 2025 have been uploaded on the official website. The last date to fill choices is October 17.
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The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has opened the choice filling facility for admission to undergraduate (UG), postgraduate (PG), and PhD courses. The council has also uploaded the revised brochure for the PG and PhD courses on the official website, icarcounseling.com.
Candidates who have a valid score in the All India Entrance Examination for Admission (AIEEA) conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) and meet the eligibility criteria set by ICAR will be eligible to register and fill choices from October 14 to October 17.
There are around 5,000 seats for UG, 3,489 for PG, and 2,130 for PhD courses. Through the counselling process, ICAR will allot candidates’ a university. Seat allotment to specific colleges will be done by the university.
As per the NTA results, a total of 27,384 candidates registered for PG, out of which 25,338 appeared. Moreover, a total of 11,116 aspirants applied for AICE JRF/SRF (PhD) out of which 9,940 took the exam.
“Against total number of ICAR seats available for a particular degree programme in a university, not more than 40% of ICAR seats from one State would be allocated to any one university in that Subject/programme under a particular category.”
Candidates with zero or negative marks will be barred from participating in the counselling process. As per the eligibility criteria for PG courses, candidates should hold a four-year bachelor’s degree in agriculture and allied sciences. However, for select courses at ICAR deemed universities like IARI and NDRI, a 3-year bachelor’s degree will be considered valid.
Those who fail to fill choices before the deadline will be allowed to participate in the mop-up or final round of counselling.
ICAR 2025 counselling dates
The complete schedule for ICAR UG, PG, PhD counselling process is given below.
ICAR Counselling 2025 | Date |
Display of Seat matrix and counselling schedule. Registration for counseling, choice filling, payment of counselling fee and uploading of documents. | October 14 |
End of choice filling | October 17 |
First round | |
Seat Allotment, online response to queries by universities (if any), re-submission of documents (if required), deposition of Seat Acceptance Fee and generation of Provisional Admission Letter | October 21, 5 pm onwards |
End of online document verification by the universities | October 23 up to 11.50 pm |
End of re-submission of documents by candidates | October 24, up to 12 noon |
End of verification of re-submitted documents by the universities | October 24 up to 6 pm |
End of seat acceptance fee deposition by candidates | October 24 up to 11.50 pm |
Second round | |
Seat allotment | October 27, 11 am onwards |
End of online document verification by the universities | October 28, at around 1 pm |
End of re-submission of documents by candidates AND End of verification of re-submitted documents by the universities | October 28, up to 6 pm |
End of seat acceptance fee deposition by candidates | October 28 up to 11.50 pm |
Third round | |
Seat allotment | October 31, 10 am onwards |
End of online document verification by the universities | November 1, up to 1 pm |
End of re-submission of documents by candidates AND End of verification of re-submitted documents by the universities | November 1, up to 6 pm |
End of seat acceptance fee deposition by candidates | November 1, up to 11.50 pm |
Fourth round | |
Seat allotment | November 4, from 10 am onwards |
End of online document verification by the universities | November 6, up to 1 pm |
End of re-submission of documents by candidates AND End of verification of re-submitted documents by the universities | November 6 up to 6 pm |
End of seat acceptance fee deposition by candidates | November 6 up to 11.50 pm |
Mop-up round | |
Display of vacant seats, payment of fees, and fresh choice filling | November 8, from 5 pm |
End of choice filling | November 10, up to 11.50 pm |
Seat allotment | November 12, 1 pm onwards |
Document verification | November 13 up to 11.50 pm |
End of re-submission of documents by candidates AND End of verification of re-submitted documents by the universities | November 14 up to 6 pm |
End of seat acceptance fee deposition by candidates | November 14 up to 11.50 pm |
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