Mechanical Engineering
Illustration of meshing gears driving a piston — 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.
3,25,113
Seats approved by AICTE
Sanctioned intake for 2024-2025, not seats filled
4,160
Institutions offering it
Distinct AICTE-approved institutions
4,841
Separate approvals
One institution can run it at several levels and shifts
By level
- DIPLOMA1,84,709 seats
- UNDER GRADUATE1,37,770 seats
- POST GRADUATE2,514 seats
- Integrated120 seats
Where the seats are
Within the institutions read so far — this ordering will shift as the rest are read.
- Tamil Nadu68,699
- Maharashtra44,769
- Andhra Pradesh22,554
- Karnataka22,257
- Odisha21,425
- Uttar Pradesh19,648
- Madhya Pradesh17,676
- Gujarat17,431
- West Bengal12,660
- Haryana12,003
- Kerala10,865
- Rajasthan9,119
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.
- Mechanical Training InstituteTamil Nadu1,550
- Vellore Institute of TechnologyVellore, Tamil Nadu480
- Krupajal Engineering CollegeOdisha420
- Parul Institute OF Engineering & Technology (Diploma Studies)Gujarat360
- Vishwakarma Institute OF TechnologyPune, Maharashtra360
- Smt. Kashibai Navale College OF EngineeringMaharashtra330
- Sinhgad College OF EngineeringMaharashtra300
- JSPM's Rajarshi Shahu College of EngineeringPune, Maharashtra300
- Gandhi Institute For Education & TechnologyOdisha300
- Shrinathji Institute For Technical EducationUttar Pradesh300
- Sbm Polytechnic CollegeTamil Nadu300
- Netaji Subhas Institute OF TechnologyBihar300
Where this branch leads
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.
- MECHANICAL ENGINEERING · 4,840
- Mechanical Engineering · 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.