TNEA Counselling 2025: Dates (Out), Choice Filling, Round-wise Seat Allotment, Participating Colleges

TNEA counselling dates 2025 have been announced by the Directorate of Technical Education on the official website at tneaonline.org. The TNEA counselling will be conducted for different categories across several rounds, starting from Jul 07, 2025. The TNEA round 2 tentative allotment has been released in the official website on Jul 29, 2025. You must login at tneaonline.org using your candidate login credentials and confirm the allotment before Jul 30, 2025. The TNEA Round 2 seat allotment letter can be downloaded from July 31, 2025.

The authorities have released the TNEA round 1 tentative allotment on Jul 17, 2025. You can login using the username and password at tneaonline.org and confirm the seat allotment before Jul 18, 2025 5:00 PM. The TNEA rank list was released in the official website on Jun 27, 2025. TNEA counselling process includes registration, choice filling, seat allocation, document verification and admission fee payment. The TNEA dates are available on the official website in a PDF format. You must keep a check on the TNEA counselling dates 2025 to not miss any event.

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TNEA Counselling 2025

The TNEA counselling schedule has been released on the official website. TNEA is an online counselling process conducted by the DoTE, Chennai, for undergraduate-level courses available at various state engineering colleges.

You can gain admission based on your merit score in the previous qualifying examination. Here is the step-by-step TNEA counselling process, which includes registration, choice filling and much more for engineering admission counselling in Tamil Nadu 2025:

• Step 1: All those who have registered for TNEA 2025 must pay the counselling fees, which are different for different categories. Those belonging to the general and OBC categories must pay INR 500, candidates belonging to the SC/ ST category must pay INR 250, and for other reserved categories, INR 100.
• Step 2: After the fee payment, you must submit all their details like nationality, nativity, category, etc.
• Step 3: You, after this, will be given a random ten-digit number to help when you have reached a tie and have exhausted the tie-breaking rules of TNEA 2025.
• Step 4: Then, you will proceed to the document verification round.
• Step 5: After this, you will have to choose the course or the college you want to take admission to by completing the TNEA choice filling process
• Step 6: The authority will release the TNEA 2025 seat allotment list based on the merit list, your category, and availability of the course.

TNEA Counselling Dates 2025

The DoTE, Tamil Nadu, has released the round-wise TNEA counselling dates 2025 on the official website. Regardless of your category, you must check the schedule provided in the table below to ensure that you do not miss any important event in the TNEA counselling 2025:

TNEA Registration and Choice Filling 2025

The TNEA choice filling process allows the candidate to choose their preferred courses from the TNEA college list available in the official website. The candidates must finish their TNEA choice filling process and document verification before Jun 09, 2025.

Here is the step by step instruction on how to fill choices in TNEA 2025:

• Step 1: Login to the TNEA official website by entering the login credentials generated during the time of registration
• Step 2: Verify the details entered and pay the application fee based on the category of the candidate
• Step 3: Add the choices from the TNEA participating colleges list provided and candidates can rearrange the choices made before the deadline mentioned by the authorities
• Step 4: The TNEA choice filling made by the candidates can be downloaded and sent to their email addresses
• Step 5: Lock the choices made by generating and entering the OTP sent to the registered mobile number.
• Step 6: Based on the preferences, a round-wise TNEA seat allotment will be released by the authorities. 
• Step 7: The TNEA seat allotment result 2025 will be released in the official website. 

TNEA Seat Allotment 2025

The TNEA seat allotment result 2025 will be released by the Directorate of Technical Education after the release of TNEA rank list. The TNEA seat matrix 2025 outlines the vacant seats in each category as per the reservation criteria. 

A total of 26.5% reserved for BC, 20% for MBC, and 15% for SC, 31% seats for BCM, 3.5% and 3% respectively for SCA and ST category candidates. Given below is the previous year’s TNEA seat matrix PDF to help candidates get an insight into the the TNEA seat allotment process:

TNEA Participating Colleges 2025

The TNEA participating colleges includes well-known engineering institutions like Anna University, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, and many others. The TNEA is expected to have around 500+ engineering colleges participating in the counselling process. 

The table below shows the top 10 TNEA participating colleges and their seat intake:

TNEA Supplementary Counselling 2025

TNEA supplementary counselling 2025 is conducted for students who have missed the opportunity to participate in the TNEA counselling process. This is an online process where candidates can explore remaining seats after the general counselling. The TNEA supplementary counselling 2025 dates will be held between Aug 21-28, 2025 

The TNEA supplementary counselling eligibility criteria are the same as the general counselling process. Students must register for the counselling in the official website before the due date mentioned by the authorities.