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.