This admission season registered around 2
lakh students.  
Online entrance exam,
SRMJEEE, took place in 121 venues 
across the country. The
online test was administered from 1s 
to 30th April 2017. That
the university is popular with 
regions outside the state boundaries of Tamil
Nadu is 
reflected by the demand distribution: 7929 Candidates from 
Uttar
Pradesh, 7298 candidates from Tamil Nadu, 6890 
candidates from Andhra Pradesh
and Telangana, 4580 
candidates from Delhi.
Counseling
for admission to B.Tech is scheduled from 14th 
May 2017, will go
till 22ndMay 2017 and for M.Tech on 23rd 
May 2017. Simultaneously,
SRM Engineering Counseling 
Carnival is also held between 12th May and 23rd May
2017, 
for which the parents and the prospective students are being 
invited to
the Kattankulathur Campus. The carnival aims to 
provide an opportunity to parents
and prospective students 
to get to know of the multi- faceted professionalism
of SRM 
University in developing future Engineers. This will assist 
the students
in making the right choices and right decision 
to secure the student’s future.
 The Counseling is
administered centrally at Kattankulathur 
for the four campuses of SRM –
Chennai, SRM Delhi, SRM 
Haryana and SRM Amaravati .On the first day
of 
counselling (i.e 14th May 2017), Dr.Parrivendhar , 
Chancellor , SRM University awarded several
scholarships 
to recognize and reward highly talented students, 
including
Founders’ Scholarship – 100% waiver of tuition 
and hostel fees which was
offered to top 100 rank holders 
of SRMJEEE for their excellent performance
in the 
examination and 38 candidates were offered the Employee 
ward Scholarship
. Also, Socio – Economic scholarship, 
differently-abled scholarship, SRM Arts
& culture 
scholarship and scholarships to outstanding sports persons 
were
awarded.
The newly launched
Amaravati University has elicited 
fantastic response from the students. Nearly
3178 students 
expressed interest in applying for this campus.  During the 
first day of Cycle 1 admissions,
10 toppers of SRM JEEE 
including the 51st rank holder has opted for
Amarawati. 
  
At the close of
the day of counselling, there was high 
 
demand for CSE and Mechanical
Engineering Programmes.