KEAM 2025: Option registration for Architecture, Engineering closes Monday midnight

The deadline for the first-phase option registration for Architecture and option confirmation for the second-phase Engineering admissions under KEAM 2025, which enables admission to undergraduate professional courses in Kerala, is 11:59 pm on July 28. Candidates receiving allotment under these categories should take admission by personally appearing at the respective colleges and paying the fees between July 31 and 3 pm on August 4.

Candidates who received allotment in engineering programmes during the first phase should also join the colleges on these days, even though this matter is not mentioned in the latest notification issued by the CEE (Commissioner for Entrance Examinations) – Kerala.

Architecture

To register options for architecture courses, candidates have to click the link ‘KEAM 2025 – Candidate Portal’ on the website www.cee.kerala.gov.inand provide their application number and password. Also enter the access code (captcha) to enter the option registration page through a link. Subsequently, registration of options could be completed as per paragraph 11 in the prospectus. The procedure is similar to the option registration for engineering courses.

A fee of Rs 2,000 has to be submitted for option registration, which will be later adjusted in the tuition fee. The fee is Rs 500 for candidates belonging to Scheduled and OEC communities and eligible students from juvenile / Nirbhaya / Sri Chitra homes. This amount would be adjusted against the caution deposit. The fee will be refunded to students who are not selected.

The provisional allotment list will be published on July 29 and the final allotment list on July 30. The list of colleges and codes are given in the notification.

BArch fees (in rupees)

• Government / aided autonomous engineering colleges: 8,650
• KMCT, Kozhikode (50 % government seats): 25 % low income: 8,650; 25 % others: 8,650
• DC School, Thiruvananthapuram and Vagamon (75 % government seats): 37.5 % low income: 55,000; 37.5 % others: 80,000
• Marian, Thiruvananthapuram (70 % government seats): 25 % low income: 55,000; 45 % others: 79,999
• Asian, Vyttila, Kochi / Seed APJ Abdul Kalam, Ernakulam / Avani, Kozhikode (50 % government seats): 25 % low income: 81,250; 25 % others: 1,25,500
• SCMS, Karukutty (75 % government seats): 37.5 % low income: 81,250; 37.5 % others: 1,25,500
• College of Architecture, Vellanad, Thiruvananthapuram (50 % government seats): 25 % low income: 55,000; 25 % others: 80,000
• KMEA, Aluva (90 % government seats): 25 % low income: 55,000; 65 % others: 80,000
• Colleges under Architecture Management Association and other self-financing colleges (50 % government seats): 25 % low income: 81,250;25 % others: 1,25,500  

Engineering

Candidates who submitted the fees after receiving the first allotment and those who were not allotted seats should register their option confirmation if they wish to continue in the allotment process.

The procedure should be carried out on the website www.cee.kerala.gov.in. On the home page, click the ‘Confirm’ button, following which the options given earlier could be cancelled or their order of preference changed. However, new options cannot be submitted.

At the same time, options are mandatory during this phase for minority / community / trust / CB quota seats in colleges mentioned in the notification. Candidates should note that options submitted earlier in these seats will not be considered.

Higher options of candidates who do not give confirmation will be cancelled and will not be considered during the next allotment. However, if the candidates had submitted the token fee, the option received by them will be retained. This condition will apply during the subsequent allotments also.

If the higher option sought by the candidates is allotted, they should mandatorily leave the existing seat. If such candidates fail to join the newly allotted seat, they will lose the existing seat also and will exit the system.

Considering these aspects, candidates have been advised to study the prospectus in detail before proceeding with the process.

To clear doubts and for more information, contact phone number 0471 2332120 or email to: ceekinfo.cee@kerala.gov.in.