NIMCET 2025 Application, Eligibility, and Important Dates for MCA Program

NIMCET 2025 for MCA

NIMCET 2025 Notification: The admission for the academic year 2025-26 in NITs has started now. The notification regarding this was started on April 17, 2025 and will continue till May 16 till (at 5:00 pm). The exam will be conducted in June 8 2025

It is conducted for admission into MCA courses in India for admission in NITs of India. NIT Warangal and NIT Jamshedpur offers a three-year duration MCA program but with an option for the students to exit at the end of successful two years and the title of such exit would be Post -Graduate Advanced Diploma in Computer Application.

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The NIMCET Application form was released on March today for admission to the MCA programme. The exam will be conducted in first week of June, 2025. Admission to the M.C.A. programme of the 10 participating NITs and 1 IIIT is made through a common entrance test NIMCET for the 813 seats in all NITs. Candidates must apply for NIMCET-2025 „Online‟ only at https://www.nimcet.in

NIT Jameshedpur will conduct the NIMCET 2025 this year. National Institutes of Technology (NITs) are Institutions of National Importance under the Ministry of Education, Govt. of India. The NIMCET is a Common Entrance National Level Test, conducted by any of the NITs, for admission into their MCA programme.

The MCA programme is offered by NITs at Agartala, Allahabad, Bhopal, Jamshedpur, Kurukshetra, Raipur, Surathkal, Tiruchirappall, Patna and Warangal. The admission into the MCA programme for the year 2025-26 in the above 10 NITs is based on the Rank obtained in NIMCET-2025 only.

OVERVIEW

IMPORTANT DATES:

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR NIMCET

You are Indian Nationals and have secured at least 60% marks in aggregate or 6.5 CGPA on a 10-point scale (55% marks or 6.0 CGPA on a 10-point scale in case of SC/ ST/PwD) in the following-:

B.Sc. / B.Sc. (Hons) / BCA / BIT / B.Voc. (Computer Science/ Computer Applications / Software development)/ BBA (Computer Applications) of minimum three years full-time programme from a recognized University with Mathematics/ Statistics as one of the subjects
OR

B.E./ B.Tech. from a recognized University/Institution are eligible to appear for NIMCET-2024. Conversion of scored marks from CGPA to percentage and vice-versa is not permitted. (CGPA other than a 10-point scale will be converted to a 10-point scale based on the Unitary method)
Appearing Candidates

Those who are appearing for the qualifying examination are also eligible to apply for NIMCET-2023 and such candidates shall have to furnish the proof (in the form of a certificate issued by the Head of the institution

Open University students

Students who have completed/completing a Bachelor’s degree Programme as (B.Sc./ B.Sc. (Hons)/BCA/ BIT) of 3 years from Open Universities are also eligible to apply provided the programme is approved by UGC / AICTE and Distance Education Council (DEC) of Govt. of India.

NAME OF INSTITUTE & AND SEAT AVAILABLE:

SEAT MATRIX OF PARTICIPATING INSTITUTES (NITS/IIIT)

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Seat Allotment Process

Online Seat Allotment and remote reporting at any participating institute:

Candidates will be offered seats based on their choices in the order of NIMCET 2025 rank in three rounds of allotment. Candidates who are allotted seats in the first two rounds have to first log in to the NIMCET-2025 website, pay the Initial fee of Rs.10, 000/- online and take the Seat Allotment Letter.

A candidate who is allotted a seat in the 1st or 2nd round must report to any participating institutes (Remote Reporting) on the specified dates. Remote Reporting is permitted in the first round and the second round of allotments only.
Application Fee

Application and Counselling Fee

General Candidate/EWS/OBC Rs.2500

SC/ST/PWD Rs.1250

Exam Pattern

Round I Rank