Tamil Nadu admission season begins: Engineering, medical, law rank lists out

The Tamil Nadu government on Thursday released the rank list for admissions into engineering, MBBS and BDS, and law courses. With engineering admissions starting only after the first round of medical counselling, government hopes to prevent students from dropping out of allotted courses. The engineering counselling is expected to begin after July 10.
Health minister C Vijaya Baskar said the state has released two rank lists based on NEET scores - one for applicants to government college and self-financing colleges under government quota and the other for management seats in self-financing colleges. The state received 28,067 applications from students for admission to government colleges. Entry to medical courses can be tougher this year as cut off is likely to go up by 50 marks for all categories. When the counselling for admission begins on July 1, the state will have 3,328 seats - 2,447 seats in state-run medical colleges, 127 seats in Rajah Muthiah Medical College, 65 seats in ESIC in KK Nagar, and 668 seats in self-financing colleges under the state quota. In addition, it will admit students to 516 seats under the management quota.
With not many state board students scoring centums this year, CBSE candidates may have a good chance of securing more seats in the counselling process. The Tamil Nadu Dr Ambedkar Law University has also released the rank list for five-year integrated law courses for which counselling will start on July 11 and 12 at 9am.