College of Engineering Pune (COEP Technological University) Admission 2026: Cutoff, Fees & Placements

COEP publishes a single first-year fee circular covering every admission category, signed by the Registrar. The figures below are that table as printed. Each column total is the sum of its own five heads, and every one reconciles against the total the document itself states.

COEP first-year B.Tech and B.Planning fees, AY 2026-27 — payable at the time of admission

Admission category	Tuition	Development	Other	Exam	Misc.	Total payable
CAP — All India Quota (JEE)	₹87,000	₹49,000	₹48,030	₹5,000	₹6,760	₹1,95,790
CAP — Open	₹87,000	₹25,000	₹48,030	₹5,000	₹6,760	₹1,71,790
CAP — J&K Migrant / NE	₹87,000	₹25,000	₹48,030	₹5,000	₹6,760	₹1,71,790
CAP — EWS / EBC / SEBC with valid certificate (income below ₹8 lakh)	₹43,500	₹25,000	₹48,030	₹5,000	₹6,760	₹1,28,290
CAP — VJ/NT/SBC/OBC with valid NCL (income below ₹8 lakh)	reimbursed *	₹25,000	₹48,030	₹5,000	₹6,760	₹84,790
CAP — TFWS	reimbursed *	₹25,000	₹48,030	₹5,000	₹6,760	₹84,790
CAP — Girls, Open/OBC/SBC/EWS/SEBC (income below ₹8 lakh)	reimbursed *	₹25,000	₹48,030	₹5,000	₹6,760	₹84,790
CAP — SC / ST / PWD	reimbursed *	reimbursed *	reimbursed *	₹5,000	₹6,760	₹11,760
CAP — PMSSS	reimbursed *	reimbursed *	reimbursed *	₹5,000	₹6,760	₹11,760
ACAP — SC / ST / PWD	reimbursed *	reimbursed *	reimbursed *	₹5,000	₹6,760	₹11,760
ACAP — VJ/NT/SBC/OBC	₹87,000	₹25,000	₹48,030	₹5,000	₹6,760	₹1,71,790
ACAP — EWS / EBC / SEBC	₹87,000	₹25,000	₹48,030	₹5,000	₹6,760	₹1,71,790
ACAP — All Girls (except SC/ST)	₹87,000	₹25,000	₹48,030	₹5,000	₹6,760	₹1,71,790

Official source: COEP Technological University, Fees Structure for Students Admitted in AY: 2026-2027 — B.Tech (First Year, All Disciplines) & B.Planning, issued by the Registrar. The Miscellaneous head of ₹6,760 comprises deposit and caution money ₹6,000, alumni association membership ₹750 and disaster relief fund ₹10.

The All-India quota pays the most, not the least. A candidate admitted through the All-India JEE quota pays ₹1,95,790 against ₹1,71,790 for a CAP Open candidate — ₹24,000 more, entirely because the Development Fee is ₹49,000 for that column instead of ₹25,000. Everything else is identical. This is the opposite of what most applicants assume, and it is worth building into the budget before you rank an All-India seat.

The girls' concession is the largest single reduction in the table. A girl candidate in the Open, OBC, SBC, EWS or SEBC categories with family income below ₹8 lakh pays ₹84,790 rather than ₹1,71,790 — the tuition head is reimbursed in full, cutting the first-year outlay by roughly half. SC, ST and PWD candidates pay ₹11,760, being exam and miscellaneous heads only.

The trap is the ACAP round. Read the bottom four rows against their CAP equivalents. A VJ/NT/SBC/OBC candidate pays ₹84,790 through CAP but ₹1,71,790 through ACAP — the same category, the same institute, ₹87,000 more, because the tuition waiver does not carry into the ACAP round. The same applies to EWS/EBC/SEBC and to girls. If you are weighing a CAP seat against an ACAP seat, the fee difference belongs in that decision.

An asterisk is a reimbursement, not a discount. COEP's note is explicit: for SC, ST, PWD, VJ/NT, OBC, SBC, EWS, SEBC and PMSSS candidates the starred heads are reimbursed by the State or Central Government as freeship or scholarship, and the student must apply on the MAHADBT portal within the stipulated period. The circular states plainly that if the student does not apply, they must pay the full fees applicable to an Open-category student — and that if the Government does not reimburse for any reason, the difference becomes payable within three weeks of that information appearing on MAHADBT. Treat the concession as conditional on a deadline you personally have to meet.

COEP's own note adds that this structure applies to students newly admitted for AY 2026-27 and may change from time to time under State Government and university guidelines. The university lists 020-25507056 as the scholarship section contact for freeship and scholarship deadlines.

COEP Technological University is listed by the Maharashtra State Common Entrance Test Cell under institute code 16006, with its status printed on the official cut-off list as University Autonomous and Home University shown as "Autonomous Institute". That status has a direct counselling consequence: COEP's closing scores appear under State Level rows only, so there is no Home University versus Other-Than-Home split to compare against.

COEP B.Tech admission routes and what each one requires

Route	Selection basis	What to verify
Maharashtra State CAP	MHT-CET merit through the State CET Cell	Category, seat type, branch choice code, round and reporting deadline
All-India CAP	JEE Main merit through the State CET Cell	All-India merit number, programme choice code and round
Institute level / management quota	Does not exist at COEP	The 2025-26 seat matrix records institute seats as 0 for every branch

Official source: Government of Maharashtra, State Common Entrance Test Cell — CAP Round I cut-off list and seat matrix for 2025-26, institute code 16006.

This is the single most useful fact about COEP admission. Across all nine branches the official seat matrix records zero institute-level seats: 240 Maharashtra plus 60 All-India in Computer Science and Engineering, 120 plus 30 in each of Civil, Electrical, Electronics & Telecommunication and Mechanical, and so on down the list — with nothing in the institute column. Every seat is allotted on CAP merit.

So if anyone offers a "COEP management quota seat", a "direct admission" or an "institutional seat", there is no such seat pool to offer. The only route is the CET Cell option form, on merit, in a published round. We can help you read the routes, order preferences and prepare documents — nobody can allot a COEP seat outside CAP.

The table below is the 2025-26 State CET Cell seat matrix for institute 16006, reproduced as published. Note the consistent 80/20 split between Maharashtra and All-India seats, and the zero institute column across every row.

COEP sanctioned intake and route-wise seats, 2025-26 State CET Cell seat matrix

Branch	Choice code	Sanctioned	Maharashtra	All India	Institute
Computer Science and Engineering	1600624210	300	240	60	0
Civil Engineering	1600619110	150	120	30	0
Electrical Engineering	1600629310	150	120	30	0
Electronics and Telecommunication Engg	1600637210	150	120	30	0
Mechanical Engineering	1600661210	150	120	30	0
Manufacturing Science and Engineering	1600662710	75	60	15	0
Metallurgy and Material Technology	1600669410	75	60	15	0
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning	1600692110	75	60	15	0
Instrumentation and Control Engineering	1600646410	60	48	12	0
Total	—	1,185	948	237	0

Official source: State CET Cell Seat Matrix 2025-26, institute code 16006. The total row is the sum of the published branch rows.

What the intake shape tells you. Computer Science and Engineering alone carries 300 of the 1,185 seats — roughly a quarter of the institute — while Instrumentation and Control has 60. That matters when you read cutoffs: a branch with 300 seats reaches further down the merit list than a branch with 60, so a large intake and a high closing percentile together mean genuinely heavy demand rather than simple scarcity.

The three smallest branches — Manufacturing Science, Metallurgy and AI & Machine Learning at 75 seats each — behave very differently from one another in the cutoff table below, which is the clearest evidence that seat count alone does not set the bar.

These are 2025-26 figures. The 2026-27 seat matrix is published by the CET Cell each cycle and can change; confirm the current matrix before you fill the option form.

COEP CAP Round I closing merit number, State Level Open (GOPENS): 2025, 2024 and 2023

Branch	2025 (AY 2025-26)	2024 (AY 2024-25)	2023 (AY 2023-24)
Computer Science and Engineering	243	96	151 (listed as Computer Engineering)
Electronics and Telecommunication Engg	736	635	346
Electrical Engineering	1,481	1,341	1,044
Mechanical Engineering	1,756	2,109	1,983
Instrumentation and Control Engineering	1,814	1,521	1,775
Manufacturing Science and Engineering	3,105	3,877	4,729
Civil Engineering	4,694	4,466	4,676
Metallurgy and Material Technology	5,522	6,313	6,691
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (code …92110)	352	not listed	not listed
Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (code …26610)	not listed	476	797

Official source: State CET Cell Cut Off List for Maharashtra & Minority Seats of CAP Round I for 2025-26, 2024-25 and 2023-24, institute code 16006 (listed as 6006 in the 2023 document). Figures are Maharashtra State General Merit Numbers for the State Level Open (GOPENS) seat pool.

Why merit numbers and not percentiles here. CAP allots against the state general merit number, and it is the value that can be read unambiguously from all three documents. A lower number is a harder seat.

Two branch changes you must not read across. In 2023 COEP's computing seat was listed as Computer Engineering under choice code ending 24510; from 2024 it appears as Computer Science and Engineering under code ending 24210. Those are different CET Cell course codes, so the 2023 figure describes a differently-coded seat and the three years are not a clean like-for-like series. Separately, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (code ending 26610) ran in 2023 and 2024 but is absent in 2025, while AI & Machine Learning (code ending 92110) appears only in 2025. They carry different codes, so we show them as separate rows rather than implying one became the other.

What the three years show where the series is clean. The two hardest engineering branches moved in opposite directions to the easiest ones. Computer Science closed at merit 96 in 2024 and 243 in 2025, so the seat got materially easier to reach in the most recent round. Electronics & Telecommunication moved the other way across the full period, from 346 to 736 — roughly twice as far down the merit list. Meanwhile the branches at the back of the list eased consistently: Manufacturing Science went 4,729 → 3,877 → 3,105 and Metallurgy 6,691 → 6,313 → 5,522, both tightening year on year. Civil sat almost still across all three, between 4,466 and 4,694.

None of this predicts 2026. Closing merit numbers move with the applicant pool, the seat matrix and how candidates order preferences in that cycle. Three years is a short series, and one of its rows changes course code partway through. These are Round I values only; later rounds close at different points, and a branch that looks out of reach in Round I can move.

COEP's Training and Placement Cell publishes something unusual and genuinely useful: a median salary per branch, alongside the average. Most institutes publish only the average, which a handful of large offers can pull upward. Where the two differ, the median is the better guide to what a typical graduate of that branch actually received.

COEP B.Tech placement statistics, AY 2025-26 (as at 1 July 2026)

Branch	Registered	Total placed	% placed	Median (LPA)	Average (LPA)	Maximum (LPA)
Computer Science and Engineering	185	168	90.81	16.15	17.95	60.30 (DE Shaw)
Electronics & Telecommunication	86	61	70.93	12.00	14.31	40.07 (Texas Instruments)
Instrumentation and Control	35	34	97.14	9.00	11.49	38.25 (Texas Instruments)
Manufacturing Science	67	56	83.58	10.00	10.21	18.00 (Havelock One)
Planning	9	6	66.67	6.38	10.10	18.00 (Havelock One)
Civil Engineering	43	28	65.12	8.50	10.04	20.88 (Bharat Petroleum)
Mechanical Engineering	147	135	91.84	9.00	9.92	23.50 (Meesho)
Electrical Engineering	75	74	98.67	8.50	9.23	14.15 (ZS Associates)
Metallurgy and Material Technology	55	52	94.55	6.50	8.37	22.00 (DMW Corporation)
All branches	702	614	87.46	10.50	12.50	—

Official source: COEP Technological University, Training and Placement Cell — B.Tech Placement Statistics for AY 2025-26, Programme-wise Placements (Minimum/Maximum Salary), dated 1 July 2026. Total companies visited: 302.

Read the median column first. For the institute as a whole the median is ₹10.50 LPA against an average of ₹12.50 LPA — a ₹2 lakh gap that tells you the average is being lifted by a smaller number of high offers. The gap is widest in Instrumentation and Control (₹9.00 median against ₹11.49 average) and in Planning (₹6.38 against ₹10.10), where a single large offer moves the average a long way on a small cohort. In Manufacturing Science the two are almost identical (₹10.00 and ₹10.21), which indicates a tightly clustered outcome.

Placement rate and salary are not the same signal. Electrical Engineering placed 98.67% of registered students — the highest rate at COEP — on a median of ₹8.50 LPA. Computer Science placed 90.81% on a median of ₹16.15 LPA. A high placement percentage tells you how many found a role; the median tells you what that role paid. Metallurgy shows the same pattern from the other side: 94.55% placed, on the lowest median at COEP of ₹6.50 LPA.

Core versus non-core matters here. The same report splits placements into core and non-core roles. Computer Science placed all 168 of its students in core roles. Electronics & Telecommunication placed 37 in core and 24 in non-core, so roughly two in five placed E&TC students took a role outside their discipline. Mechanical placed 129 core against 6 non-core. If working in your own branch matters to you, that split is worth as much attention as the salary.

COEP B.Tech placement, prior year AY 2024-25 (undergraduate, as at 28 August 2025)

Branch	Enrolled	Placed	% placed
Electrical Engineering	67	67	100.00
Computer Engineering	159	146	91.82
Instrumentation and Control	30	27	90.00
Manufacturing Science	54	46	85.19
Mechanical Engineering	124	105	84.68
Electronics & Telecommunication	73	60	82.19
Metallurgy and Material Technology	52	35	67.31
Civil Engineering	65	40	61.54
Planning	6	2	33.33
Total undergraduate	630	528	83.81

Official source: COEP Technological University, Total Placement Details: 2024-25, as at 28 August 2025. Total companies visited: 245.

One reconciliation note, stated rather than hidden. COEP's own placement page also carries a three-year summary showing 631 students enrolled and 534 placed (85%) for 2024-25 with 248 companies, while the detailed sheet above records 630 enrolled, 528 placed (83.81%) and 245 companies as at 28 August 2025. The difference is a snapshot-date effect — the detailed sheet was frozen in August 2025 and the summary was updated later. We publish the detailed sheet because it is dated and branch-wise, and flag the summary rather than silently choosing whichever number reads better.

Note also that the 2025-26 table counts registered students and the 2024-25 table counts enrolled students. Those denominators are not the same thing, so the two years' percentages should not be subtracted from one another to claim a trend.

COEP admits entirely through CAP, so the State CET Cell's round mechanics decide the outcome as much as your score does. These rules are published in the Information Brochure for Academic Year 2026-27 dated 2 July 2026 and apply to every participating institute.

CAP Round I outcomes and what each commits you to (Information Brochure, AY 2026-27)

What CAP allots you	What happens automatically	Still eligible for later rounds?
Your first preference	Allotment is auto-freezed; you must accept, report to the ARC or self-scrutinise your uploaded documents, and pay the seat acceptance fee online.	No — this allotment is final.
Not your first preference, and you are satisfied	You may freeze through your login, then report or self-scrutinise and pay the acceptance fee.	No — freezing makes it final.
Not your first preference, accepted without freezing	You confirm acceptance and hold the seat.	Yes — eligible for betterment in later rounds while holding it.
Not your first preference, not accepted	The seat is not confirmed to you.	Yes — but you hold nothing meanwhile.
Any allotment where you miss reporting or self-scrutiny	Your claim stands forfeited automatically and the seat is released.	No, in the auto-freeze and freeze cases.

Official source: Government of Maharashtra, State Common Entrance Test Cell, Information Brochure for Admission to Under Graduate and Post Graduate Technical Courses (2026-27), dated 2 July 2026 — Conduct of CAP Round-I.

What this means for a COEP preference list. Putting COEP Computer Science and Engineering at preference 1 is a decision, not an aspiration: if it is allotted, the seat auto-freezes and your counselling ends there. Given COEP CSE closed at merit 243, most candidates listing it first will not be allotted it — but the ones who are should be certain they want it, because Round II will not be available to them.

The quieter risk is forfeiture, which needs no decision from you at all. Missing the ARC reporting window or failing to complete self-scrutiny releases the seat by default. Diarise the reporting deadline the day the allotment is published.

COEP's admission process is unusually simple — one route, published merit — which is precisely why the errors below are so costly. Each row names the confusion and the official reference that settles it.

Common COEP application errors and the official reference that resolves each

The mistake	Why it misleads	What to read instead
Looking for a COEP management or institute quota	The 2025-26 seat matrix records institute seats as 0 in all nine branches. There is no such pool, so any offer of one is not an offer of a COEP seat.	The seat matrix table above, institute column
Comparing COEP's row with another college's Home University row	COEP is University Autonomous, so its cutoffs are published under State Level (GOPENS) only. A non-autonomous college's GOPENH row is a different seat pool.	The State Level row for COEP; the matching pool for any college compared
Assuming every COEP branch is near-unreachable	Closing merit numbers within COEP ranged from 243 in CSE to 5,522 in Metallurgy in Round I 2025 — a spread of over 5,000 ranks.	The full nine-branch cutoff table, not just the CSE row
Reading a percentile where the allotment uses a merit number	CAP allots against the state general merit number. The percentile is a derived label on the same row.	The closing merit number column
Treating Round I closing values as a 2026 threshold	Round I is one round of one cycle; later rounds close elsewhere and each year moves with the applicant pool and seat matrix.	The current year's CET Cell cut-off list once published
Listing only COEP branches on the option form	All nine are in one institute, so a heavy year moves them together and leaves no fallback.	A preference list with institutes at genuinely lower closing merit numbers

Official sources: State CET Cell CAP Round I cut-off list 2025-26 and Seat Matrix 2025-26, institute code 16006; State CET Cell Information Brochure AY 2026-27 dated 2 July 2026.

None of these is a scoring problem, which is why they are worth checking twice. A valid merit number still loses the seat if the option form is filled against the wrong row, and no counselling service — including ours — can reopen a round once it closes.

The three institutes Maharashtra candidates weigh against each other are COEP, VJTI Mumbai and PICT Pune. All three appear on the same State CET Cell cut-off list for CAP Round I 2025, which makes a like-for-like comparison possible without relying on anyone's marketing.

COEP, VJTI and PICT on the same CAP Round I 2025 list — State Level Open, computing branch

Decision axis	COEP Technological University	VJTI Mumbai	PICT Pune
CET Cell institute code	16006	03012	06271
Status as printed on the cut-off list	University Autonomous	Government-Aided Autonomous	Un-Aided Autonomous
Computing branch	Computer Science and Engineering	Computer Engineering	Computer Engineering
Closing merit number, State-Level Open	243	103	791
Closing percentile, State-Level Open	99.8985029	99.9522882	99.7116474
Institute-level / management seats	0	See VJTI seat matrix	117 other-than-NRI plus 39 NRI
Branch breadth	Nine branches including civil, mechanical and metallurgy	Full-spectrum including civil	Five, all computing and electronics
City	Pune	Matunga, Mumbai	Dhankawadi, Pune

Official source: State CET Cell Cut Off List for Maharashtra & Minority Seats of CAP Round I, 2025-26, State Level rows for institute codes 16006, 03012 and 06271; Seat Matrix 2025-26 for the institute-seat column.

What the merit numbers say. For the computing seat in that round, VJTI closed hardest at merit 103, COEP next at 243, and PICT at 791. The ordering is consistent on percentile too. A candidate around merit 500 was out of range for both VJTI and COEP computing that year, but within range at PICT — which is a real, checkable planning fact rather than a ranking opinion.

Where the axes genuinely diverge. The status line drives cost: COEP is a state university, VJTI is government-aided, PICT is un-aided. We are deliberately not printing a fee comparison, because PICT's fees have been verified against its own fee page and COEP's and VJTI's have not — an unverified cost comparison is worse than none. The second divergence is breadth: COEP spans nine branches including civil, mechanical and metallurgy, while PICT is computing and electronics only. If a core branch is a real possibility for you, COEP and VJTI can serve it and PICT cannot.

The third is structural: COEP has no institute-level pool at all, so CAP merit is the only way in. PICT publishes institute-level and NRI seats alongside CAP. That changes what a fallback plan can look like at each institute.

This section exists because a page that only argues for a college is not much use during choice filling. Each point below rests on the same official material used elsewhere on this page.

Candidate profiles that fit COEP poorly, and the published basis for each

If this describes you	What the official record shows
You were counting on a management or institute-level route	The 2025-26 seat matrix records institute seats as 0 across all nine branches. CAP merit is the only entry, so a candidate outside merit range has no alternative door here — unlike institutes that publish an institute-level pool.
Your merit number is well outside the published bands and you have no fallback	Round I 2025 closed between merit 243 (Computer Science and Engineering) and 5,522 (Metallurgy and Material Technology). A list built only around COEP, with nothing at a materially higher merit number below it, carries avoidable risk.
You want a computing-only, specialist environment	COEP is a full-spectrum engineering university spanning civil, mechanical, electrical, metallurgy and manufacturing alongside computing. If you want an institute where nearly everyone is doing computing, a specialist campus is a closer fit.
You need the hostel position settled before you commit	First-year tuition fees are verified and published on this page, but COEP's hostel charges and capacity have not been read from an official document, so this page does not state them. If a hostel seat is part of your budget, get that figure from COEP directly before you rank it — do not rely on any site, including this one, for a number without a named source.

Official sources: State CET Cell Seat Matrix 2025-26 and CAP Round I cut-off list 2025-26, institute code 16006; COEP first-year fee circular AY 2026-27 for the fee position.

None of this argues against COEP for the candidate it suits. A 1,185-seat public engineering university with nine branches and a fully merit-based intake is a strong, transparent proposition, and the absence of any institute quota is a point in its favour on fairness. The honest caution is narrower: there is no second door, so the merit number has to be there.

This page was rebuilt on 2 August 2026 after an audit found that the closing percentiles previously published here did not match the State CET Cell's own cut-off list. The table below records exactly which document each surviving figure came from.

Source of every figure currently published on this page

Figure on this page	Document it was read from	Status
Closing merit numbers and percentiles, nine branches	State CET Cell, Cut Off List for Maharashtra & Minority Seats of CAP Round I, 2025-26, institute code 16006	Verified against the source document
Sanctioned intake, Maharashtra / All-India / institute seats	State CET Cell Seat Matrix 2025-26, institute code 16006	Verified against the source document
Institute status (University Autonomous) and choice codes	Same CAP Round I cut-off list, header rows for institute 16006	Verified against the source document
Freeze, float and forfeiture rules	State CET Cell Information Brochure, Academic Year 2026-27, dated 2 July 2026	Verified against the source document
First-year fees by admission category, AY 2026-27	COEP, Fees Structure for Students Admitted in AY 2026-2027, B.Tech First Year all disciplines and B.Planning, issued by the Registrar	Verified — all 13 column totals reconcile against the document's own stated totals
Hostel and mess charges, hostel capacity	—	Awaiting an official COEP hostel document; deliberately not stated
Branch-wise placement median, average, maximum and percentage, AY 2025-26	COEP Training and Placement Cell, B.Tech Placement Statistics for AY 2025-26, dated 1 July 2026	Verified against the source document
Branch-wise undergraduate placement, AY 2024-25	COEP, Total Placement Details 2024-25, as at 28 August 2025	Verified against the source document
Institute history, status and campus location	COEP Technological University, About University page (coeptech.ac.in)	Verified against the source page
2026-27 seat matrix and cut-offs	—	Not published by the CET Cell at the time of writing

Why the blanks are deliberate. An earlier version of this page carried a fee table, a four-year total and a placement median attributed to a NIRF submission. None of those could be traced to a document we had opened, and the cutoff figures alongside them proved to be wrong — so the honest position is to publish nothing in those rows until the source exists. A blank with a reason attached is more useful to someone making a ten-lakh decision than a number with no provenance.

If you hold an official COEP fee circular, hostel notice or placement report, we will read it and publish what it actually says, with the document named and dated on this page.