FTII ET 2025‑26 Seat Allocation and  Special Admission Round details

FTII JET 2025‑26 Seat Allocation and  Special Admission Round details

The candidates must know the seat allocation process in FTII Pune. This process will take place after the results are out and the merit list for the selected candidates will be prepared. Candidates will follow this process

FTII ET 2025 Seat allocation process

1. If you apply for two programs/courses

• You must choose a preference order (Preference‑1 and Preference‑2) while filling the application form.
• This preference cannot be changed later and will be used to decide which seat you get if you qualify in more than one merit list.
• Your seat will be allocated based on that order of preference, subject to merit and seat availability.

2. Merit lists and how many you can appear in

• FTII‑ET 2025‑26 prepares 11 merit lists (one for each program/course).
• Each merit list has category‑wise rank lists (CRL, GEN‑EWS, OBC‑NCL, SC, ST, PwD, etc.).
• Depending on your performance and program registration, you can appear in:
  • 1–2 merit lists total:
    • One from Group A (MFA programmes) and
    • One from Group B (TV‑wing / other courses), as per your registration and preferences.

3. Types of rank lists used for seat allocation

For each program/course (across all 11), FTII maintains these rank‑list types:

Seat allocation for a candidate uses only the rank list(s) corresponding to the candidate’s category and chosen program/course.

4. How seat allocation works

A seat is allocated by considering:

• Your category (GEN / GEN‑EWS / OBC‑NCL / SC / ST / PwD).
• Your rank in the relevant merit list of that program/course.
• Seat‑quota availability for your category.
• Other rules in the FTII‑ET 2025‑26 prospectus (page 75–78).

FTII ET 2025 admission and application form

5. Key rules on preference‑1 and preference‑2

• If you get a seat in your Preference‑1 only, and it is the only seat you are offered, that seat is treated as auto‑freeze:
  • Your roll‑no will no longer be considerable for Preference‑2.
  • You will exit the merit‑waitlist of other programs.
• If you get a seat in Preference‑2 first,
  • You still remain in the waitlist for Preference‑1 until the final round.
  • Only when the higher‑pref choice confirmed or lost, the system settles your seat.
• If your roll‑no appears in two merit lists but you get no seat as Preference‑1 or Preference‑2,
  • You stay in the waitlist of both programs until:
    • Your seat is offered as per preference, or
    • the process ends.

6. Seat Acceptance Fee (SAF) – critical step

• To accept an offered seat, you must pay a non‑refundable Seat Acceptance Fee (SAF) of ₹50,000 via SBI Collect (online) before the deadline.
• If you fail to pay by the deadline:
  • You lose that seat.
  • You are not eligible for further rounds of seat allocation in that course.
  • The seat goes to the next eligible candidate.
• The SAF is adjustable against your total course fee and other charges (you don’t pay this fee extra on top).
• Provisional allotment means:
  • You have paid the SAF and accepted the seat.
  • Final confirmation depends on:
    • Document verification.
    • Joining FTII.
    • Paying the balance course fee and other charges by the last date.
• If you don’t pay the balance fee by the deadline:
  • The SAF is forfeited.
  • The offered seat is withdrawn.

7. Subsequent rounds of seat allocation

• Further rounds happen only if seats remain vacant in a course.
• In subsequent rounds, vacant seats are first offered to waitlisted candidates of that same program/course, in order of merit under the same category.

Special Admission Round 

It is an extra seat‑filling mechanism FTII uses after the main admission rounds, only if seats are still vacant in a particular programme/course while maintaining reservation rules. Here’s a clear breakdown:

1. When Special Admission Round is held

• After the main waiting list for that programme/course is over but seats remain vacant, FTII opens a Special Admission Round for that course only.
• In this round, candidates who:
  • Qualified Paper‑I (Written Test),
  • Did not get call for Stage‑2 earlier,
    are invited for an online Stage‑2 test in a 1:4 ratio (1 vacant seat → 4 candidates), strictly in order of written‑test merit and category.

2. How seats are allotted in Special Round

• A fresh merit list is prepared for the vacant seats of that course by combining:
  • Written‑Test marks (Stage‑1).
  • Online Stage‑2 test marks, as per the same 25% + 75% weightage logic.
• Vacant seats are for the eligible category candidates in order of merit from this new list.

3. Capping condition for this round

• This process continues until the remaining written‑test merit list for that course is fully over, as per FTII’s rules and reservation policy.

4. What happens to reserved seats if their waiting list ends

If the waiting list of a reserved category is exhausted but the seat is still vacant, it will turn upward as follows:

• Gen‑PwD seat vacant → offered to General (UR) waiting list, in merit order.
• OBC‑NCL‑PwD seat vacant → offered to OBC‑NCL waiting list, in merit order.
• OBC‑NCL seat vacant → offered to General (UR) waiting list, in merit order.
• SC or ST reserved seat vacant → offered to the other SC/ST waiting list (SC ↔ ST mutual conversion), in merit order.

If even after all these steps some seats remain vacant, FTII may fill them further as per its internal rules (likely institute‑discretion seats).

5. Rules for candidates in Special / subsequent rounds

• Candidates who get in through subsequent waiting‑list rounds or Special Admission Round must still pay:
  • Seat Acceptance Fee (₹50,000, non‑refundable).
  • Balance course fee & other charges online (SBI Collect), exactly like first‑round candidates.
• They may miss the first few weeks of classes, and those classes will not be repeatable
• Admission process closes 4 weeks after the commencement of the first class.

6. Your responsibilities as a candidate

• You must regularly check the FTII / FTII‑ET website for:
  • Newly published merit lists and Special‑round notifications.
• Your registered email ID must remain active; FTII communicates only via that email (no SMS or phone calls).
• Once you accept a seat in the Special Admission Round, you lose all claim on your earlier merit/waiting‑list position in the original round.

7. Final note on reservation and unfilled seats

• Even after all possible rounds (including Special Admission Round):
  • If SC / ST / EWS seats remain vacant, they will stay unfilled; FTII will not carry forward to the next year.

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