Anna University to launch scholarship to draw high quality college students | Chennai News

Chennai: To encourage toppers to hitch ME, MTech, MArch and MPlan programs, Anna University is planning to launch a brand new scholarship programme for postgraduate college students from the 2026-27 tutorial 12 months. The college will give the chosen 400 college students 60,000 every per semester for 2 years.Candidates will likely be chosen for the scholarship primarily based on ranks within the widespread engineering entrance take a look at and admissions (CEETA-PG).

“The scholarship programme is being introduced to get quality students for teaching and research. It will also encourage toppers to study in the university departments,” mentioned professor V Kumaresan, registrar (in cost), Anna University.This scholarship will likely be on a par with the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) GATE scholarship, by means of which a PG pupil will obtain 12,400 a month.Anna University has a complete consumption of 1,100 postgraduate seats on its 4 campuses, together with the College of Engineering, Guindy (CEG), Madras Institute of Technology (MIT), Alagappa College of Technology (AC Tech) and the School of Planning and Architecture (SAP).Due to an absence of alternatives, a few of the PG programs within the college departments weren’t in a position to fill all of the seats in earlier years. To fill the seats in all govt establishments, together with the college campuses, the college launched CEETA-PG examination three years in the past.Next 12 months, the college will award 800 scholarships for each first-year and second-year college students.“We expect students who studied in central institutions such as NIT to apply for CEETA-PG this year. The directorate of technical education is also planning to introduce a similar scholarship to govt engineering colleges,” a professor mentioned.Anna University is planning to carry the Tamil Nadu Common Entrance Test (TANCET) and CEETA-PG within the second week of May.“We will give the exam notification for the TANCET and CEETA-PG tests in the coming week. The results will be released within two weeks of the test. After counselling, the classes can start from the second week of June,” mentioned D Sridharan, secretary of TANCET.Students aspiring to review MBA and MCA want to look for TANCET, whereas those that need to research ME, MTech, MArch and MPlan within the college departments and govt engineering schools should clear CEETA-PG. Last 12 months, 35,323 candidates appeared for each the TANCET and CEETA-PG exams. For CEETA-PG, 5,400 college students appeared.Further, Anna University can also be providing analysis fellowships price 40,000 a month to 275 analysis students to enhance the standard of analysis.