The NEET will compound the woes of Intermediate BiPC students seeking admission into dental, agriculture, veterinary, home science, pharmacy and biotechnology courses. Since NEET deals with only MBBS admissions, biology students will have to appear for separate tests for admissions into these professional courses. These students have to appear only for the Eamcet medical entrance exam for admissions into these courses now. But if NEET replaces Eamcet, the biology students will have to appear for both the tests if they want admission to courses other than MBBS. Also, a short span of five months is left for preparation of both NEET and Eamcet, which has variations in their syllabi.

While about 70,000 students appear for Eamcet, there are just 4,800 MBBS seats available in the State. Students therefore used to opt for dental courses later in the Eamcet counselling. After MBBS and BDS seats are filled, students usually opt for veterinary or agriculture courses offered by the Acharya NG Ranga Agriculture University. There are about 1,830 dental seats in 21 medical colleges, besides the 270 seats in veterinary courses and 500 seats in agriculture courses.

All these issues need to be addressed before implementing NEET. “We have submitted a report explaining the pros and cons of NEET. It’s up to the government to take a final decision. The government has clarified that it will seek time till 2013 to implement NEET,” said Prof Jayaprakash Rao, chairman, AP State Council of Higher Education.

Source : DC

PGEC & PGECET-2011 Admissions Notification.

Official notification for PGEC/PGECET Counselling announced. The Schedule is as follows. For GATE/GPAT students i.e.PGEC Councelling dates are 9th Nov and 10th Nov 2011. Allotment will be done on 13th Nov 2011. For PGECET counselling dates are 14th to 18th Nov 2011. Allotment Results on 22nd Nov 2011. Classes will be Started from 28-11-2011.

To download the official notification click here. If anybody wants to get seat under management quota then here is the procedure. AICTE has given permission for 6 management quota seats out of total 18 this year. Remaining 12 seats are filled via councelling. For more details regarding management quota for the year 2011-2012 click M.Tech B category seats for the academic year 2011-2012. Those people who failed to attend PGECET and GATE exam may consider joining via management quota if interested.

GATE qualified students need to apply for PGEC to get admission into various PG courses offered by colleges in Andhra Pradesh. After filling the seats by GATE qualified candidates via PGEC counseling the remaining vacant seats will be filled by PGECET 2011 qualified candidates.

A.P. State Council Of Higher Education (APSCHE) Hyderabad has released notification for PGEC Admissions 2011.

• PGEC-2011

Applications are invited from the GATE/GPAT qualified candidates for admission into M.E./M.Tech./M.Pharm./M.Arch/M.Plg. /Graduate Level Pharm D (P.B.) (Full Time) in University and Affiliated Engineering & Pharmacy Colleges in A.P. to be conducted by Osmania University.

The vacant seats if any after admitting GATE/GPAT qualified candidates will be filled with the candidates based on the Rank Secured in the PGECET-2011. This means applying through PGEC 2011 is mandatory to get admitted in engineering colleges of AP. If you have not qualified GATE then go for PGECET.

Eligibility Criteria:
BE/BTech or equivalent in the relevant branch and valid GATE score of the year 2011 or 2010.

Scholarships:
The GATE Scholarships are likely to get for the eligible course and eligible candidates from AICTE for a restricted number approved by AICTE. Mere admission into any of the P.G. Programmes does not guarantee AICTE-GATE Scholarships. At present the GATE scholarship amount is Rs. 8000/- per month.

Application Fee:
The application fee for PGEC Admission -2011 shall be Rs.450/- for General and for SC/ST is Rs. 225/-. The fee can be paid in the form of Demand Draft drawn on any Nationalized Bank in favor of the Secretary, APSCHE payable at Hyderabad.

Important Dates:
Commencement of Downloading of Application Form : 03-06-2011.
The downloaded and filled in application form along with DD should reach the office of the Convener, PGEC- 2011, Osmania University or on or before 24th June 2011.
Application can also be sent with a late fee of Rs. 500/- up to 1st July, 2011.

For more details please visit the PGEC Admissions 2011 or PGEC 2011 Notification for M.Tech official site www.apschepgec.net

If you want to know the updated and latest list of colleges in Andhra Pradesh offering M.Tech and total number of seats in each branch then click on List of Engineering Colleges offering M.Tech in AP.

• PGECET-2011 :

A.P. State Council of Higher Education, Government of A.P invites applications for appearing at the Post-Graduate Engineering Common Entrance Test (PGECET) for admission into M.E./M.Tech./M.Pharm Degree Courses for the academic year 2011-2012 in the all Universities in A.P and their affiliated colleges.

Sale of Application Forms and Fee:
Applications are available at the following places and can be obtained by paying Rs. 500/- for others and Rs. 250/-(Rupees Two hundred and fifty only) for SC/ST. through D.D. drawn on any Nationalized Bank in favour of Secretary, APSCHE payable at Hyderabad on or before 26th April 2011.

1. IDC, Behind University College of Engineering Library OUCOE (A), Osmania University, Hyderabad.
2. Office of the Director, Admissions, JNTU, Kukatpally, Hyderabad.
3. Office of the Principal, AU College of Engineering,Visakhapatnam.
4. Office of the Principal, SV University College of Engineering, Tirupathi
5. Office of the Director, PG Admissions, Kakatiya University, Warangal
6. Office of the Principal, Siddartha Engineering College, Vijayawada.
7. Office of the Director, Admissions, JNTU, Kakinada.
8. Office of the Director, Admissions, JNTU, Anantapur.

Online Submission:
Applications can also be submitted online. For details visit www.apschepgecet.net

Important Dates:
Commencement of Sale of Application Form starts from : 29-03-2011
Last Date for Sale & Receipt of Application Form
a) Without Late Fee : 26-04-2011.
b) With Late Fee of Rs.500/- : 07-05-2011.
c) With Late Fee of Rs. 2000/- : 21-05-2011.
PGECET Exam will be held in between :05-06-2011 to 13-06-2011.

For PGECET preparation there are no model papers available on the official site. However the questions will be of GATE standard. So get ready with your GATE material.

There is an excellent book for Computer Science students for PGECET. The book is titled “Multiple Choice Questions Computer Science” by author “Timothy Williams”. I recommend this book for preparation.

For more details regarding PGECET visit the official link PGECET 2011

This year i.e. 2011 Counselling will be conducted online via http://pgecet.apsche.ac.in. But you need to verify your certificates offline at various help centers. Here is the list of helpline centers. Here is the schedule for decentralised certificate verification.

Processing fee for Certificate Verification 2011:
Candidates belonging to open category and Backward classes have to pay processing fee of Rs.600/- and Candidates belonging to SC/ST have to pay a fee of Rs.300/-

Last year i.e. 2010 the PGECET/PGEC admission procedure is conducted online via http://appgecet.nic.in. Candidates have to verify their certificates online via help centers. The certificate verification process was started very lately i.e. on 28.10.2010 and ended on 30.10.2010. With in these 3 days all the candidates including GATE qualified and PGECET qualified have to verify their certificates. This is all for year 2010.

Tution Fee per Annum/Semester:
Tution Fee in University Colleges is Rs.15,000-Rs.25,000 per semester.
Tution Fee in University Colleges( Self Finance Course) Rs.57,000 per annum.
Tution Fee in private unaided Colleges is Rs.57,000 per annum. This tution fee is for year 2010.

Soon we are coming with more updates. So if you want to get latest updates regarding to PGECET 2011 and PGEC 2011 counseling dates then like us on facebook.

Many students are asking for last year ranks cutoff. I don’t have database regarding last year ranks. So I am helpless.

List of certificates to be carried while attending the counselling :

Students who are going to attend PGECET 2011 counselling please read this post.

Here is the list of certificates you need to carry in original while attending for counselling:

1. GATE scorecard 2011 or 2010 and Hallticket of GATE exam. Otherwise who are attending counselling via PGECET need to carry PGECET 2011 rank card and hallticket.
2. Degree certificates and marks of qualifying exam.
3. Memorandum of marks of Intermediate or its equivalent.
4. Memo of SSC or its equivalent exam.
5. Study certificates from 9th class to graduation.
6.Residence certificates for the preceeding 7 years.
7. Integrated community certificates issued by authority in case of SC/ST/BC.
8. Transer certificate.
9. Two sets of photocopies of all the above certificates.
10. Two recent photographs of the candidate.

Remember previous year caste certificates will not be considered for OBC. So have a new one.

This year also students belonging economic backward classes i.e. Students whose parental income is less than 1 lakh per annum need not have to pay the tution fees. So get your income certificate also.

Also many students are asking for best colleges for doing M.Tech. It is hard to give info regarding to this because many students don’t bother for college reagrding M.Tech. They just prefer college which is nearer to them. But still getting a good university matters a lot. I am not considering IIT Hyderabad and NIT Warangal because they don’t come under PGECET counseling. Of course these two are the best in AP. Some of the remaining best colleges you can prefer are:

1. JNTUH Hyderabad
2. OUCE OU College of Engineering OU Hyderabad
3. AU College of Engineering AU Visakhapatnam
4. JNTUK Kakinada
5. Sri Venkateswara University College Tirupathi

One more point regarding to PGECET rank holders. Many students are asking via comments and mailing me that, In which college they can get seat based on their rank. At first I just once again want to clarify that atmost priority is given to GATE qualified students and remaining vacant seats are filled by PGECET students. Even having PGECET 1st rank may not make you get admitted into top college like JNTU Hyderabad unless you have reservation. So be prepared to your choice list.

I cannot clarify each and every comment personally due to lack of time. So please be patient. But somebody may clarify your doubt. Please verify all the comments before posting your comment. Repeated comments will be deleted automatically.

Here is the list of engineering colleges offering M.Tech courses in Andhra Pradesh. The list is useful to students who want to pursue post graduate course in colleges of  Andhra Pradesh.

List of Engineering Colleges in Andhra Pradesh :

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