Biotechnology
Illustration of a DNA helix rising from a laboratory flask — drawn for this page, not a photograph.
Partial: read from 12,371 of 13,928 institutions (88.8%). Every total here is a floor and will grow.
11,721
Seats approved by AICTE
Sanctioned intake for 2024-2025, not seats filled
174
Institutions offering it
Distinct AICTE-approved institutions
224
Separate approvals
One institution can run it at several levels and shifts
By level
- UNDER GRADUATE10,424 seats
- POST GRADUATE1,037 seats
- Integrated120 seats
- DIPLOMA120 seats
- POST GRADUATE CERTIFICATE20 seats
Where the seats are
Within the institutions read so far — this ordering will shift as the rest are read.
- Tamil Nadu5,243
- Uttar Pradesh1,991
- Karnataka768
- Telangana588
- Andhra Pradesh431
- Maharashtra420
- West Bengal357
- Odisha334
- Haryana315
- Uttarakhand193
- Rajasthan173
- Delhi157
Largest approved intakes for this branch
Ranked by sanctioned seats in this one branch. Capacity, not quality — a large intake says nothing about how good a college is.
- S.R.M. Institute of Science and TechnologyChennai, Tamil Nadu330
- Vellore Institute of TechnologyVellore, Tamil Nadu234
- Rajalakshmi Engineering College (Engineering & Technology)Tamil Nadu204
- Sastra Deemed UniversityTamil Nadu195
- SR Institute OF Management& TechnologyUttar Pradesh180
- Vignan's Foundation for Science, Technology and ResearchGuntur, Andhra Pradesh168
- Karunya Institute of Technology and SciencesCoimbatore, Tamil Nadu140
- Dr. M. G. R. Educational and Research InstituteChennai, Tamil Nadu138
- Sathyabama Institute of Science and TechnologyChennai, Tamil Nadu138
- Koneru Lakshmaiah Education FoundationAndhra Pradesh138
- Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of TechnologyHyderabad, Telangana120
- D Y Patil Deemed TO BE University Department OF Biotechnology And Bioinformatics Navi MumbaiMaharashtra120
Where these numbers come from
Every figure on this page is a sum over AICTE’s own approved-course register for 2024-2025 — one row per programme AICTE approved at one institution. Nothing is estimated, weighted or scored.
Spellings counted as this branch
Institutions write the same course several ways. These were grouped together; genuinely different courses, including named specialisations, were not.
- BIOTECHNOLOGY · 223
- Biotechnology · 1
Example of the exact response a row was read from: https://facilities.aicte-india.org/dashboard/pages/php/approvedcourse.php?method=fetchdata&aicteid=1-43669208251&year=2024-2025
AICTE regulates technical education. Medicine, law and general degree courses are approved by other bodies and are not counted here. CompetitionBazaar is not affiliated with AICTE.