PGCET · M.Tech predictor
PGCET M.Tech College Predictor: your rank, branch by branch
Enter your Karnataka PGCET M.Tech rank and category. You get every specialisation that closed near it in KEA’s 2025 allotments — filterable by branch and city, both rounds shown, and downloadable in full as a PDF for option entry.
Your PGCET M.Tech rank
Type your PGCET M.Tech rank above. M.Tech ranks run much lower than MBA and MCA — the state’s widest 2025 closing rank was about 8,400, so a rank in the hundreds is genuinely strong here.
Looking at MBA or MCA instead? Use the MBA & MCA predictor.
How this works, and what it will not claim
In M.Tech the branch is the cut-off, not the college
This is the difference that makes M.Tech its own tool rather than a third option on the MBA predictor. An MBA applicant is mostly choosing an institution. An M.Tech applicant is choosing a specialisation, and KEA allots every specialisation from its own pool of seats with its own closing rank.
The spread inside a single campus is the proof. One college in KEA’s 2025 tables runs twenty-one separate M.Tech programmes; most run several; only forty-six of the hundred and twenty-three run just one. Computer Science and Structural Engineering at the same address routinely close thousands of ranks apart. A tool that told you “this college is within reach” without naming the course would be answering a question nobody asked.
So every row here is a college and a branch together, and the specialisation filter is the first control worth using.
M.Tech ranks are not MBA ranks
Far fewer candidates sit the M.Tech paper, and the numbers reflect it. The widest closing rank in the 2025 M.Tech tables is about 8,400, where MBA runs past 31,000. A rank of 5,000 is mid-table for an MBA aspirant and close to the edge of the published M.Tech list.
That matters if you have been reading MBA cut-off articles to calibrate expectations, or comparing notes with a friend writing a different paper. The same number means two different things. Judge your rank against this list, not against the one next door.
Which round you are looking at
The round selector defaults to round 2, and a seat appears there only if KEA actually allotted one in the second round. Seats that filled in round 1 and never reopened are removed, because they are not options for anyone entering later however reachable their first-round rank looks.
Both rounds print on every row. “Round 1 none” marks a seat that appeared only in the second round. “Tightened in round 2” marks the case people find surprising: the second round closed at a better rank than the first. KEA re-runs allotment over everyone’s full preference list each round, so stronger candidates can move into a seat that looked open. Later is not reliably easier.
Category, seat type and what M.Tech does not have
KEA encodes the seat type into the category code rather than publishing a separate column: codes ending in G, along with plain GM, are the Rest of Karnataka pool, and codes ending in H are the 371(j) Kalyana Karnataka pool. Those are separate pools with separate closing ranks, and you hold the second only if your eligibility certificate says so.
One option you will not find here is the non-Karnataka seat type. KEA publishes that column for MBA and MCA but not for M.Tech, so there is nothing to show and the option is absent rather than present-but-empty. If you are a non-Karnataka candidate looking at MBA or MCA, the MBA and MCA predictor does carry it.
Filtering by city, and the honest gap in it
You are choosing somewhere to live for two years, so the list filters by city. The limit is worth stating plainly: KEA publishes no district column, and the M.Tech tables print clean institution names with no address at all, which resolves far fewer cities than the MBA tables do.
Where a college also runs an MBA under a different code, the city is inherited from that longer name — which recovers most of them. The rest are grouped under “Not stated” and are never hidden from you: leave the filter on All cities and they appear like everything else.
Ordering your options
Put the branch you actually want to study first. KEA reads your list top down and gives you the first option your rank reaches, so a Safe seat in a specialisation you do not want, placed above a Moderate one in the specialisation you came for, costs you the course rather than saving you a risk.
Two years in the wrong branch is a worse outcome than two years at a less famous college in the right one. Take the PDF, which carries every match rather than the forty rows on screen, and build the order offline before the portal opens.
Checked against: KEA Karnataka PGCET, KEA seat allotment results
Questions you might have
Why is M.Tech a separate predictor from MBA and MCA?
Because the question is a different shape. An MBA applicant is choosing a college; an M.Tech applicant is choosing a branch, and the branch is what carries the cut-off. One Karnataka college in KEA’s 2025 tables runs twenty-one separate M.Tech specialisations, each allotted from its own seat pool with its own closing rank — Computer Science and Structural Engineering at the same institution can sit thousands of ranks apart. The rank scale differs too: M.Tech closing ranks top out near 8,400 statewide where MBA runs past 31,000, so a number that means “comfortable” in one exam means “nowhere near” in the other. Mixing them into one tool would make both worse.
Which cut-offs does this use?
KEA’s published seat allotment tables for PGCET 2025 M.Tech, both the first and second rounds, across 123 colleges and 362 college-and-branch combinations. Every row prints both rounds so you can see whether a boundary moved, held, or appeared only in the second round. The round selector defaults to round 2, which is what a late entrant is actually choosing from.
Can I filter to just my branch?
Yes, and it is the first thing worth doing. There are about 120 distinct specialisations in the data, from Computer Science and Engineering through Structural Engineering, VLSI Design, Machine Design, Power Electronics and Data Science. The filter only lists branches that actually have a seat in your category and round, so it can never offer you a specialisation that returns nothing.
Why does the same college appear several times?
Because each row is a branch, not a college. That is the whole point of the tool: KEA allots M.Tech seats per specialisation, and a college being “within reach” is meaningless without saying which course. Forty-six colleges in the data run a single M.Tech programme, but most run several and one runs twenty-one.
What do Safe, Moderate and Reach mean?
Safe means your rank is comfortably inside where that seat closed — ahead of it by fifteen per cent or more. Moderate means you are inside the closing rank but near it. Reach means you are just past it, within about fifteen per cent, close enough that a year with more seats or a harder paper could bring it to you. Anything further out is left off the list rather than padded in to make the result look generous.
Does the non-Karnataka seat type apply to M.Tech?
No, and the tool does not offer it. KEA publishes a non-Karnataka column (NKN) for MBA and MCA but not for M.Tech, so there is nothing to show — rather than present an option that can only ever return an empty list, the seat type is simply absent here. If you hold a 371(j) Kalyana Karnataka certificate, that seat type is available and is a genuinely separate pool with its own closing ranks.
Will 2026 match these numbers?
No. Three things move a closing rank between cycles: how many candidates sat the paper, how hard it was, and whether the seat matrix changed because a college added an intake or withdrew a branch. M.Tech is especially sensitive to the last one, because a single specialisation withdrawn or added shifts a whole branch’s boundary. Use last year’s numbers as a map of the terrain, then confirm on KEA’s own site.
How should I order my options?
By the branch you actually want to study, then by college. KEA reads your list top down and gives you the first option your rank reaches, so putting a Safe seat in a branch you do not want above a Moderate one in the branch you do costs you the course you came for. Two years in the wrong specialisation is a worse outcome than a slightly less known college in the right one.