OJEE 2025 Application Form: Registration Link, Last Date, Exam Fees, Process

OJEE application process 2025 will likely commence in the last week of January 2025. The registration window will be opened for approximately two months and close in the second week of March 2025, tentatively. Special OJEE/2nd OJEE registrations will also begin in the first week of June 2025, online. The schedule of every course of the OJEE 2025 exam will be announced at the same time and will be available online. 

The application schedule is announced on the official website of OJEE. The OJEE application process starts with the OJEE registration and application fee payment. Candidates have to submit their OJEE application form before the deadline. Candidates are required to choose their preferred institutes they wish to apply for MBA, and other course admissions through OJEE score. Candidates will be eligible for admission to only those institutes that they select in the OJEE application form.

OJEE previous session: OJEE registration 2024 started on January 25, 2025. The last date to fill the OJEE application form was March 22, 2025. Earlier, the last date of registration was March 15, 2025. 

Any graduate candidate with a 50 percent aggregate can apply for OJEE. The applicant must also be a citizen of India. There is no age bar for the candidates appearing for the exam. However, candidates appearing for BTech Marine Engineering exam must not be more than 22 years of age. Candidates in the final year of graduation or awaiting their result can also apply provisionally. They will be required to present their marksheets at the time of admissions.

No, the OJEE application form is available in online mode only which can be filled on the official website of OJEE or Odisha JEE. There is no provision of filling the application form offline. Candidates also need to make an online fee payment to complete the OJEE registration process.  The application forms for each course are released on the official website of OJEE and the candidates need to fill out the OJEE application form and then proceed to paying the OJEE application fee. The OJEE application procedure is completely online and there is no offline communication.

OJEE eligibility criteria are the requirements for appearing for the OJEE exam. OJEE scores are accepted in over 40 top B-schools in the country. The OJEE eligibility criteria are prescribed by the OJEE Cell, which is the OJEE exam conducting authority. The minimum requirement or eligibility criteria for appearing for OJEE is graduation. The basic OJEE eligibility criteria include:

• Age Limit: There is no age bar for the candidates appearing for postgraduate courses, however, candidates appearing for BAMS/BHMS or Pharma must be at least 17 years of age as of December 31
• Nationality: Candidates appearing for OJEE must be a citizen of India. If they wish to take admissions to government colleges in Odisha then the candidates must be a native of Odisha. 
• Minimum Educational Qualification: For undergraduate courses, the candidate must have cleared Class 12 or equivalent from a recognized board. As for postgraduate courses, the candidate must hold aDiplomaorBachelorsdegree from a recognized university or institute from a relevant stream.
• Work experience: OJEE exam eligibility criteria do not include work experience. Both working and non-working candidates can apply for the exam

Candidates can only make corrections in the OJEE application form if the correction window opens on the official website. If it does not then the applicant will have to fill out a new form and pay the application fee again. In 2023, the form correction window opened on April 1, 2023. The OJEE form correction window closed on April 2, 2023, at 11:00 PM. Once the form correction window closes, the applicants will not be able to make corrections again. Candidates must carefully fill the application form to avoid errors.

No, the OJEE exam is conducted for admission to various undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the state of Odisha. However, Special OJEE is an additional examination conducted by the OJEE Board for specific purposes. The Special OJEE is typically held to fill vacant seats in engineering, medical, or other professional courses in colleges and universities in the state of Odisha.

Therefore, the OJEE and special OJEE application forms are different. The Special OJEE application forms are usually released after the OJEE exam result is announced. Candidates who wish to take admission through the Odisha Joint Entrance Examination but were not able to appear for the exam can apply through Special Odisha Joint Entrance Examination. Special Odisha Joint Entrance Examination will be conducted for admissions to Bachelor of Technology, LeTech (Diploma), LeTech (Bachelor of Science), Master of Business Administration, Master of Computer Application, Master of Technology, Master of Planning, Master of Architecture, and Master of Pharmacy courses under Odisha Joint Entrance Examination. 

Special Odisha Joint Entrance Examination OJEE is organized for all the applicants who missed the Odisha Joint Entrance Examination Phase I exam and for filling up all the vacant seats in management, engineering, and pharmacy college. Candidates who wish to take admission through the Odisha Joint Entrance Examination but were not able to appear for the exam can apply through Special Odisha Joint Entrance Examination. Special Odisha Joint Entrance Examination will be conducted for admissions to Bachelor of Technology, LeTech (Diploma), LeTech (Bachelor of Science), Master of Business Administration, Master of Computer Application, Master of Technology, Master of Planning, Master of Architecture, and Master of Pharmacy courses under Odisha Joint Entrance Examination. The second/Special Odisha Joint Entrance Examination exam will be conducted for admission to first-year courses in all private and government colleges in Odisha against the vacant seats left after the first round of counseling of Odisha Joint Entrance Examination and the candidates belonging to states other than Odisha are not eligible for admission to government colleges, however, can opt for private colleges. Students who hold a rank in Odisha Joint Entrance Examination or Joint Entrance Examination Main, do not have to appear for Special Odisha Joint Entrance Examination. The application process for Special OJEE began on June 1 and the last date of registration was June 10. For more information, you may visit the Shiksha Odisha Joint Entrance Examination page. (https://www.shiksha.com/mba/ojee-exam). I hope this will help you.

No, Odisha Joint Entrance Examination is a state-level examination that is held in about 32 test cities. New test cities were added to the list in the year 2022. Among these 9 new test cities, Patna, Ranchi and Kolkata were the test cities outside the state of Odisha. only in the state of Odisha. OJEE test citites are:

1. Angul
2. Balasore
3. Baripada
4. Bhawanipatna
5. Jeypore
6. Malkangiri
7. Jharsuguda
8. Nabarangpur
9. Kendrapara
10. Naupada
11. Keonjhar
12. Subarnapur
13. Berhampur
14. Phulbani
15. Patna
16. Bhadrak
17. Puri
18. Ranchi
19. Bhubaneswar
20. Rayagada
21. Kolkata
22. Bolangir
23. Rourkela
24. Jagatsinghpur
25. Cuttack
26. Sambalpur
27. Boudh
28. Dhenkanal
29. Sarang
30. Paralakhemund (GAJAPATI)
31. Jajpur
32. Nayagarh
33. Balangir
34. Deogarh

Candidates appearing for the OJEE exam must download the OJEE admit card in order to know their exam centre details. The OJEE admit card will mention details such as name, application number, exam date, time, venue details, etc. The OJEE exam will likely be conducted in three slots and the candidates must ensure to reach the OJEE exam venue at least an hour before the exam begins. 

Candidates will be allowed to leave the exam centre only once the exam is over. They will not be allowed to leave the examination centre early. 

Candidates applying for the OJEE exam, need to fill the OJEE application form and pay the application fee online. The candidates need to pay an OJEE application fee of INR 1,000. Candidates need to pay INR 500 for each additional course. This means, if the candidate is appearing for MBA as well as MCA, then they need to pay INR 1000 as the base fee and INR 500 for the additional course. Hence, the total application fee turns out to be INR 1500. The Special OJEE application fee is also INR 1,500. The fee can be remitted via Debit/Credit Card/Netbanking. Candidates are suggested that they must check the OJEE eligibility criteria before filling the OJEE application form and paying the OJEE application fee.