Tamil Nadu Agricultural University

Admission Procedure

Candidates desirous of applying to Undergraduate Programs have to get the necessary application from.

The Dean and Chairman Admissions
Agricultural College and Research Institute
Tamil Nadu Agricultural University
Coimbatore-641003 India

Application can be obtained by paying an application fee of Rs.600 (Rs.300 for SC/ST) as Demand Draft drawn in favor of Dean. The filled in application has to be sent to the Dean on or before June 15, 2007 for the current admission. The same application can be used for applying to self supporting B.Tech. Programs of TNAU. The application can also be downloaded online. The downloaded application should be printed in a laser printer for use. The filled in downloaded application should be attached with necessary application fee of Rs. 600 (Rs.300 for SC/ST) as Demand Draft drawn in favor of Dean.

Degree Programs

• B.Sc.(Agriculture)
  
• B.Sc.(Horticulture)
  
• B.Sc.(Forestry)
  
• B.Sc.(Home Science)
  
• B.Tech.(Agricultural Engineering)
  
• B.Tech.(Food Process Engineering)
  
• B.Tech.(Horticulture)
  
• B.Tech.(Biotechnology)
  
• B.Tech.(Energy and Environmental Engineering)
  
• B.Tech.(Bioinformatics)
  
• B.S.(Agribusiness Management)
  
• B.Tech.(Agricultural Information Technology)

Mode of selection

Candidates will be selected on the basis of the ranks computed from marks in their qualifying examination as illustrated below:

Mark in each of the four qualifying subjects would be converted to 50 as follows:

Mark Obtained
--------------------- X 50
Maximum Mark

Aggregate of the four subjects would be taken for ranking for maximum of 200 marks (50 x 4=200).

In the case of qualifying examination other than Tamil Nadu Higher Secondary (HSC) Examination, normalization procedure as ordered in Tamil Nadu Admission in Professional Educational Institutions Act 2006 (Tamil Nadu Act No 3 of 2007), G.O. M.S.190 Agriculture (AP.6) Department dt. 16.05.2007 and G.O. M.S.191 Agriculture (AP.6) Department dt. 16.05.2007 shall be adopted for computing minimum eligibility and ranking.

In cases where more than one student have got the same marks in the common merit list, the inter-se merit among such students shall be determined in the order of preference as specified below:

1. Marks out of 50 in Mathematics or Botany or Biology
   
2. Marks out of 50 in Physics
   
3. Marks out of 50 in Chemistry
   
4. Date of birth - eldest first