KARACHI, Oct 1: The process of admissions to first year engineering classes at the NED University of Engineering and Technology will begin on Oct 3, with the sale of forms and prospectus.
According to official sources, in all 1,239 seats, including 162 on self finance basis will be offered for admissions to 15 engineering programmes. Besides the pre-engineering group students, students pertaining to HSC pre-medical can also apply for admissions as the university has allocated at least 16 seats for them in different programmes.
The admission forms would be available from a bank branch on the campus till Oct 28, while Oct 29 has been fixed as the last date for the acceptance of forms. Entry test of prospective candidates has already been conducted by the varsity.
Talking to Dawn, chairman of the NED admission committee, Dr Mahmood K Pathan, said on Saturday that three engineering degrees in medical engineering, bio-engineering and automotive engineering were being introduced from the new academic session, commencing in January.
A total of 64, 32 each in five-year bio-engineering and medical engineering programmes and 35 seats in automotive engineering, a 4-year degree programme, have been allocated for admission, he added. Dr Pathan said that as many as 832 regular seats were available for students having passed their HSC pre-engineering/pre-medical examination from the Board of Intermediate Education, Karachi.
The number of seats in the textile engineering department has been increased from 35 to 70, while in the industrial manufacturing programmes the increase was from 70 to 100 seats, he mentioned.
Unlike the past, students aspiring admissions would now be required to submit a single form for engineering, architect or BCIT programmes and they will not be needed to give their order of programme choices at the time of submission of admission forms.
The university will issue a provisional merit list of applicants, on Nov 21, following which students would be called for interviews and asked to name the study-programmes that they wanted to pursue at the varsity, he added, saying that the new method will allow a longer period to the applicants to think and decide about their engineering programme of interest.
He said that the varsity had also revised downward the fee structure pertaining to Bachelor of Computer Sciences and Information Technology programme. A total of 23 seats have been reserved for A-level pre-engineering and pre medical groups candidates, Dr Pathan added.
The allocations of regular seats at different departments are as follows:
Civil 135, Urban 33, Petroleum 32, Mechanical 130, Textile 61, Industrial 90, Automotive 33, Architecture 40 , BCIT 100, Electrical 110, Telecommunications 41, Computer and Information 105, Electronic 105, Bio 31, and Medical 31 ,thus making a total of 1,077 regular seats.