All Indian Engineering Entrance Examination is a national level exam (conducted annually) for admission to various engineering and architecture disciplines offered by different institutions all over India.
The Programme of Action (PoA), 1992 under the National Policy on Education (NPE), 1986 planned the conduct of a common entrance examination on all India basis for admission to professional and technical programmes in the country. For admission to Engineering and Architecture/Planning programmes, Government of India vide Resolution dated 18th October 2001 has laid down a Three – Exam Scheme:
- JEE and AIEEE at the National Level
- State Level Engineering Entrance Examinations (SLEEE) for State Level Institutions – with an option to join AIEEE
This takes care of varying admission standards in these programmes and helps in maintenance of professional standards. This also solves problems of overlaps and reduces physical, mental and financial burden on students and their parents due to multiplicity of entrance examinations.
The AIEEE is highly competitive with an admission ratio of 1:43. In the AIEEE-2007 5,99,096 candidates appeared (out of 6,41,276 candidates registered) for approximately 13653 seats. Various Institutions namely National Institutes of Technology, Deemed Universities, Technical Institutions and other Government funded Institutions offere admission through this examination. For a tentative list if institution please check “AIEEE institutions”. A centralized is organized for filling up the All India seats. For a list of various engineering branches offered by different institutions please check “courses offered”.
Also, keeping in view greater variety of subjects offered by different School Boards at the 10+2 (Class – XII) level, more subject combinations in qualifying examination (10+2) would now be possible.
Also for the convenience of candidates, provision for on-line submission of Application Form has also been made.
