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Admission criteria: Entrance Test-AIEEE, thereafter centralised counselling by Department of Technical Education (DTE); AIEEE (NIT Hamirpur; UIIT Shimla, JUIT Wakanghat etc.); JEE (IIT Mandi)
Number of Engineering Colleges: 17
Total sanctioned intake: 4,549
Major disciplines: Electronics & Communications; Computer Science; Mechanical

Noteworthy institutions: NIT, Hamirpur; IIT Mandi; JLNGEC, Sundarnagar; UIIT Shimla (HPU); IITT College of Engineering, Kala Amb

FIRST established in 1986 as Regional Engineering College, the National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur has the largest intake of 449 in the State, though this is the least among all 20 NITs. In 12 districts of HP, only 6 have engineering colleges. While Sirmour has the largest intake, Mandi has more  institutions. The latter also has an IIT, which at present has an equal intake of 40 each in Computer Science, Electrical and Mechanical. The increase in intake (nearly three-fold) in HP has been in the last three years. 75% of engineering institutions are private/self-financed.

Over two-third of the total sanctioned intake in HP (for institutions under DTE) is spread over three disciplines: Electronics & Communications; Computer Science; and Mechanical. Colleges with intake of over 350 are IEET,  Baddi; IITTCE, Kala Amb and GHEC,  Kumarhatti in Solan district.

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Admission procedure
Take AIEEE to be eligible. Candidates admitted in session 2009-10 were asked to get minimum 10% of total marks in AIEEE-09 in case of general category (5% for all reserve categories). Selections were done on merit of AIEEE marks and rank secured through a centralised counselling process. Vacant seats, if any, are filled at the discretion of individual institutions (management quota) after the last round of counselling through a public announcement in newspapers. General seats account for 85% of the total seats while ‘all-India quota’ constitute the rest.