DASA 2025: UG Counselling Dates, Registration, Eligibility, Participating Institutes, Seat Matrix, Cutoff

DASA is the abbreviation for Direct Admission of Students Abroad. For admission to NITs, IIITs, CFTIs and other Premier Technical Institutions (Other than IITs), candidates of Indian nationality and with JEE Main ranks apply for JoSAA counselling. However, Foreign Nationals/Persons of Indian Origin (PIOs)/Non-Resident Indians (NRIs)/ Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) are required to take admission via the DASA scheme.

Direct Admission of Students Abroad (DASA) Scheme is under the Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India for admission to Undergraduate programmes in Engineering/Architecture/ Planning for the Academic offered by the National Institutes of Technology (NITs), Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs), Schools of Planning and Architecture (SPAs), and other premier Technical Institutions in India. DASA counselling is held online in various rounds. The seats are allotted to eligible foreign nationals with JEE Main ranks based on the choices filled by them and their ranks.

Check below the important highlights of the DASA counselling 2025:

The following are the essential eligibility criteria for DASA UG counselling 2025:

Age

Applicants born on or after October 01, 2000, are eligible. Date of birth as recorded in the Secondary Education Board / University Certificate.

Academic Eligibility

Applicant should have a valid JEE Main 2025 rank.

And

Applicant must have passed the qualifying examination (10+2) or equivalent from any system of education as recognised by the Association of Indian Universities (www.aiu.ac.in) with specified subjects. Applicants appearing for the qualifying examination in the academic year 2025-26 and expecting their final results by September 30, 2025, may also apply. 

And

Applicant should have completed Mathematics, Physics and one of the subjects from (Chemistry, Biotechnology, Computer Science, Biology) in 12th with 75% marks (CGPA of 7.5 out of 10) in aggregate, as applicable in the respective boards.

Residential Requirement

All foreign nationals studying in any country including India or Indian nationals studying abroad who fulfil prescribed admission criteria shall be eligible. Prescribed admission criteria for Indian Nationals shall be at least two years of education, inclusive of 11th & 12th or equivalent (not beyond), in a foreign country during the last 8 years and must pass the qualifying examination from abroad. 

The candidates eligible for DASA counselling have to register to be able to participate in the admission process. The DASA counselling registration process is given below:

To register, the candidate needs to enter the JEE Main 2025 application number and Date of Birth. A web link will be mailed to complete the registration process on the email ID registered with JEE Main. The application number of JEE Mains will be your username.

In the registration form, candidates have to fill in the required details. Applicants are required to upload the following:

1. Latest passport size photograph in JPG format (size ~ 3.5cmx3.5cm, file size < 100kB).
2. Scanned signature of applicant in JPG format (file size<100 kB). 

Submit the completed DASA application form. The submitted online registration form should be downloaded and saved for their records. However, there is no need to send the hard copy of the form and documents to the DASA office.

DASA 2025 Registration Fees

During registration candidates have to submit the registration fee along with the tuition fees. The details of the fees to be submitted are given below:

How to pay the fees?

The fee can be paid through SWIFT /E-Payment/ NEFT/RTGS Transfer. The full payable amount shall be paid in one transaction, i.e, only one transaction id is to be provided for the entire payable amount. 

For E-payment, applicants shall access the online portal which will be interlinked with ICICI Bank Payment Gateway for receiving online payment of fees through their credit/ debit card. On successful completion of the transaction, a Transaction ID will be generated automatically and will appear in the application form.

The DASA counselling process is explained below:

DASA UG Counselling Process 2025

Counselling Registration and Choice Filing: One-time mandatory registration activity which includes providing the following:

• Personal Details (includingcategoryselection, CIWG, SAARC, Non-SAARC etc.)
• Contact Details
• Passport Information
• Qualification
• Filling of Refund Details
• Documents Upload
• Fee Payment (Registration fee +Tuition fee)
• Choice filling
• Submission 

DASA Rank Declaration: The DASA office will declare the DASA rank (based on JEE Main rank declared by NTA) for only those students who have filled out and finally submitted their online registration form for DASA 2025.

The above two steps are a one-time process and the below-given steps will be repeated in each round of DASA counselling

DASA seat allotment: The seat allotment result is declared by DASA on the website.

Seat confirmation by candidates who have been allotted a seat: Candidates have to choose from the following options:

1. If any seat is allotted: Accept (Directly report to the admitting Institute as per schedule. He/ she can’t participate in the DASA special round. However, will be automatically considered for Internal Sliding after the FINAL allotment round).
2. Accept & Upgrade (Will participate in next rounds and considered for higher choices, but can’t participate in DASA special round)
3. Decline: The candidate is exited from the whole counselling process including the special round. The tuition fee will be refunded (after making deductions) as per the refund rule

Online reporting to allotted Institutes for admission: This part is done by the Participating Institutes. The student has to join an online meeting with the verification team at the allotted institute. The online meeting link will be provided by the allotted Institute through your(student’s) registered email. You will be directed to provide your willingness for internal sliding/not for internal sliding/cancellation of admission.

Announcement of vacant seat matrix for Special round: The new seat matrix will be displayed on the DASA website after internal sliding for the special round.

Choice refilling for DASA 2025 Special Round: The Candidates who are already registered but have not received any allotment till now are eligible for the choice refilling for the Special Round against vacant seats. After the candidate login in the counselling portal, the candidate has to choose one of the following options:

1. Participate in Special Round: Candidate may opt for this option to fill the choices. Candidates allotted a seat in the special round will not be eligible for any refund.
2. Exit: The candidate may opt for this if s/he doesn’t want to participate in counselling. The candidate is exited from the whole counselling process. The full tuition fee will be refunded as per refund rules.

Special Round Allotment and physical reporting: The special round set allotment result is announced. The candidates allotted seats after the special round and also in rounds 1, 2, 3 and 4 have to physically report to allotted Institutes for admission.

The candidates can fill in the choices of courses and institutes in order of their preference after their DASA registration is successful. Candidates must submit as many choices as possible and submit the filled choices before the deadline is over. The choice filling and submission is an online process only and a one-time process. Candidates MUST “submit” their saved choices. Candidates who do NOT submit their saved choices in the time window given, their last saved choices will be submitted automatically when the time window for filling the choices ends.

DASA 2025 seat allotment will be based on JEE Main rank and the choices given by the applicant in the order of their merit and priority taken together. Based on the DASA merit list drawn, the allotment of Institutions and course would be made as per the choices indicated by the applicant in his/her application form. An applicant appearing higher on the merit list would get higher priority in allotment of course/ Institution of his/ her choices as compared to an applicant appearing lower in the merit list. In case the institute/course of the first preference indicated by the applicant is not available, he/ she will be allotted the 2nd preference (Institute/ course) and so on. Such of those applicants who have not been allotted any seat will be indicated as Not allotted in the allotment list. In such cases, the applicants will be eligible for the subsequent rounds of allotment against the vacancies.

All eligible applicants would be considered for allotment. The allotments shall be displayed on the DASA 2025 applicant portal dasanit.org as per the schedule mentioned on the DASA website. No individual allotment letters/emails will be sent to applicants who get a seat allotment. Applicants who are allotted seats are required to confirm their options.

1. Applicants who are allotted their first choice of Institute/course, would have two options - Accept or Decline.
2. Applicants who are allotted any choice of Institute/course other than the first choice, would have three options - Accept, Accept & Upgrade and Decline.
3. Applicants who are not allotted any choice of Institute/courses, have to wait for the next allotment.

Candidates allotted seats in the various allotment rounds can practice the following choices with their allotted seats:

Accept: Press Accept if you are satisfied with the currently allotted seat and do not want your higher preference choices to be considered in other rounds of seat allotment. The Provisional Admission Letter would be generated in this case.

Accept and Upgrade: Press Accept & Upgrade if you are accepting the currently allotted seat but are interested in being considered in other rounds of allotment for upgradation of the Institute/ course as per the original choices given at the time of filling out the application. The Provisional Allotment Letter would be generated in this case. If the applicant gets a seat that has higher preference in his/her list of choices in the next round, the applicant will automatically forfeit his/her claim on the seat previously allotted i.e. the applicant cannot have the liberty of choosing between the seats allotted in successive rounds. In case, no upgradation takes place due to the unavailability of vacancies in the higher choices during the next round, the allotment in the current round will be retained.

Decline: Press Decline if you do not wish to accept the allotted Institute/Course and a Seat Cancellation/ Withdrawal letter will be generated. By pressing Decline, you will lose your right to any further seat allotment in subsequent rounds. The seat so vacated would be available for re-allotment in subsequent rounds for other eligible applicants. All eligible refunds will be processed after the completion of the admission process and no requests for refund before this will be considered.

Only applicants who have been assigned specific institutions/courses from the DASA 2025 allotment list and have accepted their seat allotment within the specified time frame will be sent to the relevant institution for provisional admission. It is strongly recommended that applicants check the status of their allotment on the specified dates without fail.

The Provisional Admission Letter must be submitted to the Allotted Institute at the time of admission (as per dates mentioned in the schedule on the DASA website). After four rounds of allotment, provisionally selected applicants must report to the allotted Institutes for admission on the specified dates mentioned in the schedule on the DASA website. All admissions are subject to the verification of original certificates/documents and satisfactory physical fitness, as prescribed by the concerned Institutes during the time of admission. Failure to report to the allotted Institute during the specified period will result in the cancellation of the allotted seat and forfeiture of the full fee.

The remaining vacant seats following the internal sliding at the respective Institutes will be made available on the DASA 2025 website, following the schedule. Eligible applicants who have paid the fee but have not been allotted a seat in earlier rounds will be included in the Special Round. In this round, applicants must submit new choices, and any choices submitted before the first round will be cleared. Applicants who have declined their allotments or withdrawn/cancelled their applications at any stage are ineligible for the DASA 2025 special round.

The admission authority will release the DASA UG cutoff 2025 after the seat allotment result of each round is declared. the cutoff is made available as opening and closing ranks for all the participating colleges and courses. The preparation of the cutoff marks depends upon various parameters like the number of applicants, seat availability, etc.

The participating colleges of DASA UG counselling are:

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