Engineering counseling 2025 South Inda tops maximum admission: The JEE Advanced result will be out on 2 June and much awaited JOSAA counseling will start on June 3. Did you know that not all institutes are part of JOSAA counseling the top colleges available in India IIIT Hyderabad,Delhi University,Jamia Milia and AMU do not participate in Josaa counseling.
We will try to understand if not all institutes participate in JOSAA counseling so how a candidates can get admission in the other engineering colleges in India.
So how many colleges are available in India as of 2025, India has approximately 8,876 engineering colleges offering undergraduate and postgraduate engineering programs. Out of these, 6,611 are private colleges and 2,265 are government establishments

Engineering counseling 2025 South Inda tops maximum admission
Option Available for Engineering Admission
JOSAA
JAC for Delhi
State level counselling for JEE Main such as Wbjee,UPCEE,Keam for kerala,OJEE for Odisha,MH CET counselling for Maharashtra.,KCET for Karnataka.
It means every state level engineering exam reserve seats for JEE Main qualified candidates
There are 14.90 Lakhs seats available in India in both government and private institutions put together and Southern India enjoys the maximum admission of engineering
Three state in South India take away maximum share
Yes it is true that three states in South India enjoys maximum engineering admission. These states are Tamil Nadu,Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.Tamil Nadu takes the maximum pie of cake as reportedly 3,08,686 from the earlier 2,75,830 seats last year, the intake in Andhra Pradesh stands at 1,83,532 – indicating a rise of 23,518 from 1,60,014 seats in 2023-24.
In Telangana, the number of seats rose to 1,45,557 from 1,25,344 last year, indicating an increase of 20,213 seats.
It is not exaggerated to say that Engineering colleges in south India perform better in India in all ranking of colleges be it NIRF or QS Ranking