COMEDK UGET: Registration, Exam Pattern and Colleges

COMEDK conducts its own entrance test and its own centralised counselling for engineering seats at member colleges across Karnataka. It runs separately from KEA's KCET process, on a different rank scale, with a different set of decisions — and the decisions are where seats are most often lost.

Everything below comes from the official COMEDK Counselling Process Quick Guide for the 2026 cycle. Schedules change every year; read the current version before acting on any of it.

Registration is a separate step from the test

Holding a COMEDK rank card does not put you in counselling. You register through your existing application login and pay a counselling registration fee of ₹2,000, which the document states is non-refundable.

Only two seat types go through COMEDK engineering counselling: General Merit and KKR (Kalyana-Karnataka Region). There is no wider reservation structure here, which is why our COMEDK cut-off pages carry two categories while KCET carries eight.

Document verification gates everything

You upload scanned documents and COMEDK verifies them. The status appears in the Document Upload tab of your login, and only one status lets you continue: Document Approved.

The status worth watching for is Resubmit. The official document gives you 12 hours to supply the corrected document, and states that a candidature where this is missed will not be considered. That is the most time-critical window in the whole process, and it is why you check your login daily rather than waiting for an email to arrive.

A Document Rejected status ends your participation, with the reason sent by email.

A mock round, then four real ones

Before Round 1 there is a mock allotment: you fill preferences, COMEDK shows what you would have been allotted, and you can then change them. Nothing is binding.

Four rounds follow. Choice filling in Round 1 is mandatory to remain in the process at all, and your eligibility for Rounds 2, 3 and 4 depends entirely on the decision you took in the round before.

The four decisions

After each allotment you pick one of four options. Two of them sound like synonyms and behave in opposite ways.

Accept & Freeze — you are satisfied and will report to the allotted college. You leave counselling here, download the allotment letter and fee receipt, and report in person by the date on the letter.

Accept & Upgrade — you are satisfied but want to try for a higher preference. If a higher option is allotted in a later round, the earlier seat is cancelled automatically. If nothing better comes, the earlier seat stays yours. This is the option that lets you keep trying without risk.

Reject & Upgrade — you are not satisfied and are giving up the allotted seat while staying in for the next round. You keep no fallback.

Reject & Withdraw — you leave COMEDK counselling entirely.

The difference between the second and the third is the whole game. One keeps your seat while you try to improve on it; the other hands it back before you know what you will get instead.

There is a fifth outcome nobody chooses deliberately: taking no decision at all. The document is explicit that a candidate who does not act on a Round 1 allotted seat is not considered for further rounds. Doing nothing is a decision, and the worst available one.

Round 4 removes your exit

In Round 4 you do not get the option to cancel your seat or exit counselling. If a seat is allotted you must accept it and report to that college, and the fee paid is not refunded if you do not join.

The practical consequence: Round 3 is the last list you can fill casually. Anything you are genuinely unwilling to attend should come off your preferences before Round 4 begins, because by then the system will hold you to it.

What you pay, and when

You pay a single Total Fee to COMEDK — tuition plus "other fees" — at the moment you make your decision, not later at the college.

If you upgrade to a costlier college you pay the difference at that decision. If the new college costs less, the document states the excess is refunded after counselling completes.

On the published limits for this cycle: the upper annual tuition fee agreed between the State Government and the college association was ₹3,02,000 or ₹2,15,000 a year, whichever the institution opted for. Institutions may collect "other fees" of up to ₹20,000 a year, collected by COMEDK. Colleges with special skill labs may charge a further ₹10,000–₹20,000 annually where approved by VTU, plus applicable university fees, at college level.

Those are caps, not what any particular college charges. The figure for a specific college and course is in COMEDK's own seat matrix.

Never compare a COMEDK rank with a KCET one

They are different examinations with different candidate pools and different rank scales. A COMEDK rank of 40,000 and a KCET rank of 40,000 describe entirely different positions. Our predictor keeps the two exams on separate tabs for exactly this reason, and no page on this site puts them in the same table.

The full process breakdown is in our COMEDK counselling guide.