Engineering Fee Transparency Report (2026-27)

Executive summary

• 359 of 365 colleges are currently active and publishing verified fees.
• Median Year 1 management-quota fee across the dataset: ₹2.0L.
• Median Year 1 government-quota (KCET / COMEDK) fee: ₹0.4L.
• Median 4-year management-quota total: ₹8.0L.
• 123 colleges (34%) report at least one management-quota row.
• 152 colleges (42%) 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. PSG College of Technology · Coimbatore · ₹0.6L
2. Amruta Institute of Engineering · Bangalore · ₹0.7L
3. Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology · Bangalore · ₹0.8L
4. SSN College of Engineering · Chennai · ₹0.9L
5. Atria Institute of Technology · Bangalore · ₹1.0L
6. SIT - Siddaganga Institute of Technology · Tumkur · ₹1.0L
7. Vemana Institute of Technology · Bangalore · ₹1.0L
8. City Engineering College · Bangalore · ₹1.0L
9. Galgotias College of Engineering · Greater Noida · ₹1.0L
10. Galgotias University · Greater Noida · ₹1.1L

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.