NIMCET 2024
(NIT MCA Common Entrance Test)
Admission to Master of Computer Applications (MCA) Programme
conducted by:
National Institutes of Technology (NITs)
Important Points
Admission to the M.C.A. program of the eleven participating NITs/IIIT and one IIIT is done through a common entrance test NIMCET. Candidates must apply for NIMCET-2024 through ‘Online’ only and they must follow the instructions strictly as given in the NIMCET-2024 website https://www.nimcet.in or https://nimcet.admissions.nic.in Applications not complying with the instructions will be summarily rejected.+ Important Dates (Subjected to appropriate modification)
Event | Date |
Publication of Advertisement in Press and Web | Friday, 01/03/2024 |
Opening date for online Registration | Wednesday, 06/03/2024 [10 am] |
Last date for online submission of Application Form | Saturday, 20/04/2024 [up to 5 pm] |
Edit Window opens | Wednesday, 24/04/2024 [10 am] |
Edit Window closes | Friday, 26/04/2024 [up to 5 pm] |
Availability of Admit card/Hall ticket on web for download | Thursday, 28/05/2024 to Sunday, 08/06/2024 |
Date and Time of Online Examination at the allotted centers | Saturday, 08/06/2024 (02:00 pm - 04:00 pm) |
Challenges to model solution | Monday, 10/06/2024 (5 pm) to Wednesday, 12/06/2024 (5 pm) |
Date of Publication of Result/Scorecard (Tentative) | Tuesday, 25/06/2024 (5 pm) |
Registration &Choice filling by paying the nonrefundable counseling fees of Rs. 1000/- | Saturday, 29/06/2024 (10 am) to Friday, 05/07/2024 (5 pm) |
First Round of Allotment | Monday, 08/07/2024 (6 pm) |
First round of online reporting and partial admission fee payment | Tuesday, 09/07/2024 to Friday, 12/07/2024 (till 5 pm) |
Second round of Allotment / upgradation | Saturday, 13/07/2024 (6 pm) |
Second round of online reporting and partial fee payment only for Fresh allotees | Monday, 15/07/2024 to Wednesday, 17/07/2024 (till 5 pm) |
Third round of allotment/upgradation | Thursday, 18/07/2024 (6 pm) |
Third round of online reporting only for Fresh allotees and Online Institute Admission by paying the Partial Admission fees. | Friday, 19/07/2024 to Monday, 22/07/2024 (till 5 pm) |
Announcement of vacant seats | Tuesday, 23/07/2024 (6 pm) |
Special Round: Fresh Choice Filling and registration for the vacant seats and likely to be vacant seats due to upgradation. | Wednesday, 24/07/2024 (10 am) to Friday, 26/07/2024 (5 pm) |
Special round of Seat allotment | Saturday, 27/07/2024 (6 pm) |
Reporting for offline admission at the finally allotted institute for all allotted candidates. | Reporting as per institute schedule after 27/07/2024 |
+ Eligibility Criteria to appear for NIMCET-2024
+ Test Centers and Center Codes
Test Center | Center Code | Test Center | Center Code |
Allahabad | 11 | Lucknow | 274 |
Bhagalpur | 12 | Muzaffarpur | 28 |
Bhopal | 13 | Patna | 29 |
Bhubaneswar | 14 | Raipur | 30 |
Chandigarh | 15 | Ranchi | 31 |
Delhi | 16 | Rourkela | 32 |
Guwahati | 17 | Surat | 33 |
Hyderabad | 18 | Surathkal | 34 |
Indore | 19 | Tiruchirappalli | 35 |
Jaipur | 20 | Varanasi | 36 |
Jalandhar | 21 | Warangal | 37 |
Jamshedpur | 22 | Pune | 38 |
Kanpur | 23 | Silchar | 39 |
Kolkata | 24 | Agartala | 40 |
Kozhikode | 25 | Srinagar | 41 |
Kurukshetra | 26 |
+ Seat Matrix of Participating Institutes (Participating NITS)
Institute Name | Quota | OP | OBC | SC | ST | EWS | PWD-OP | PWD-OBC | PWD-SC | PWD-ST | PWD-EWS | Total |
NIT Agartala | All India | 11 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 30 |
MNNIT Allahabad | 45 | 29 | 16 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 116 | |
MANIT Bhopal | 44 | 30 | 16 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 115 | |
NIT Jamshedpur* | 44 | 30 | 16 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 115 | |
NIT Kurukshetra | 25 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 64 | |
NIT Kurukshetra (Self-Financing) |
12 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | |
NIT Raipur | 43 | 27 | 15 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 110 | |
NITK Surathkal | 22 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 58 | |
NIT Tiruchirappalli | 45 | 29 | 16 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 115 | |
NIT Warangal* | 22 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 58 | |
IIIT Bhopal | 23 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 60 | |
NIT Patna (Data sciences & informatics |
15 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | |
NIT Patna (Data sciences & informatics (Self-Financing) |
15 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | |
NIT Patna (AI & IoT) | 15 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | |
NIT Patna (AI & IoT) (Self-Financing) |
15 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | |
TOTAL | 396 | 262 | 147 | 74 | 101 | 19 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 1033 |
ABBREVIATION | STANDS FOR | ABBREVIATION | STANDS FOR |
OP | Open / General | OBC-PwD | Other Backward Classes – Persons with Disability |
OP-PwD | Open – Persons with Disability/Differently Abled | SC | Scheduled Caste |
OP-EWS | Open- Economically Weaker Section | SC-PwD | Scheduled Caste- Persons with Disability/Differently Abled |
EWS-PwD | Economically Weaker Section–Persons with Disability | ST | Scheduled Tribe |
OBC | Other Backward Classes | ST-PwD | Scheduled Tribe- Persons with Disability/Differently Abled |
+ Participating NITs
NIT Agartala | MNNIT Allahabad |
MANIT Bhopal | NIT Jamshedpur |
NIT Kurukshetra | NIT Raipur |
NITK Surathkal | NIT Tiruchirappalli |
NIT Warangal | IIIT Bhopal |
NIT Patna |