KCET Counselling 2025: Zero BTech fee for SC, ST in Karnataka engineering colleges

The Karnataka government has revised the Karnataka Common Entrance Test (KCET) fee structure 2025 for engineering courses, reducing the fee for the supernumerary quota and slashing it for Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) categories. The Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) has issued the new KCET BTech fees 2025 on the official website, cetonline.karnataka.gov.in.

For government engineering colleges in Karnataka, the BTech fee has been increased from Rs 42,866 to Rs 44,200 this year. On the contrary, Karnataka BTech fees 2025 for supernumerary quota has slightly dropped to Rs 20,610. SC, ST aspirants and those whose annual income is up to Rs 10 lakh have been exempted from fee payment. Till last year, the engineering fee for these categories was set at Rs 750.

In May this year, the state government announced that it has decided to reduce the fee for government and aided engineering colleges with low enrollment, as per The Hindu report. The decision was taken after the government observed low student enrollment in civil, mechanical, automobile engineering courses, resulting in several vacant BTech seats in Karnataka. Moreover, it was reportedly decided to fill all the government quota seats in private engineering colleges through the CET counselling only through an extended round.

KCET 2025 counselling is being conducted for more than 80,000 engineering and architecture seats in state colleges.

Since KEA extended the option entry facility for KCET counselling 2025 till July 22, the mock seat allotment result, initially scheduled for July 21, stands postponed. The authorities will announced the revised seat allotment schedule soon.

KCET fee structure 2025: BTech fees for engineering colleges

For architecture courses, Rs 650 will be charged besides the given fee structure.