Engineering Fee Transparency Report India (2026-27)

Scope & coverage

This report covers the India-wide CollegeAndFees verified-fee database, not a government census of every engineering college in India. The current dataset is deepest for Bangalore and Karnataka private-college fee research, but the lowest-fee and distribution sections intentionally use all current rows in the database.

• 161 active colleges have at least one current 2026-27 fee row in this report.
• Colleges without a current fee row are excluded from medians and lowest-fee rankings.
• Management-quota figures still require branch-wise re-verification before payment.

Executive summary

• 161 of 7717 active colleges currently have a 2026-27 fee row in the CollegeAndFees verified-fee database.
• Median Year 1 management-quota fee across the dataset: ₹2.0L.
• Median Year 1 government-quota (KCET / COMEDK) fee: ₹0.5L.
• Median 4-year management-quota total: ₹8.0L.
• 145 colleges (2%) report at least one management-quota row.
• 301 colleges (4%) have published verified KCET / COMEDK cutoffs.

Year 1 fee distribution (Management Quota)

Number of colleges by Year 1 management-quota fee bracket. Buckets in lakhs.

Top 10 lowest Year 1 MQ fees

Most affordable colleges in the dataset for 2026-27, ranked by minimum Year 1 management-quota fee across any branch.

1. SDM Institute of Technology · Ujire · ₹0.8L
2. KLE's College of Engineering and Technology · Chikkodi · ₹1.0L
3. Aditya College of Engineering · Bangalore · ₹1.0L
4. SIT - Siddaganga Institute of Technology · Tumkur · ₹1.0L
5. St. Joseph Engineering College · Mangalore · ₹1.0L
6. Srinivas University · Mangalore · ₹1.1L
7. Marwadi University · Rajkot · ₹1.1L
8. Galgotias College of Engineering · Greater Noida · ₹1.2L
9. Brindavan College of Engineering · Bangalore · ₹1.2L
10. Thiagarajar College of Engineering · Madurai · ₹1.2L

Methodology

All figures are computed live from the rows in our public fee dataset for AY 2026-27. We exclude rows where tuition_fee ≤ ₹100 (placeholders), and consider a college "active" if its is_active flag is true. Median is taken over the minimum Year 1 fee per college across branches, so each college contributes one data point regardless of how many branches it offers.

Read our full data-collection process at /methodology.

Related reports and guides

Fees can also change after an approved programme move. Read the VTU change-of-branch fee and eligibility guide; where a post-transfer fee treatment is not published, the guide says so rather than estimating it.