DASA 2025: Application Form, Important Dates, Eligibility Criteria

DASA 2025 Application Form will be released in third week of March 2025. DASA (Direct Admission of Students Abroad) is a national level admission procedure organised once in a year. This admission procedure is organised by one of its participating institutes on a rotational basis.

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DASA 2025 Dates || Application Form

It is a scheme of Ministry of Education (MOE), Government of India to provide admission to foreign nationals, PIO & NRI candidates under UG & PG courses. Admission will be offered in Engineering, Architecture, Planning and Management fields. Selected candidates will offer seats in various NITs, IIESTs, IIITs, central universities and other centrally funded institutions.

All you need to know about DASA 2025 Exam:

• Is DASA 2025 Application Form released? Check DASA Registration details here.
• Wants to confirm if you will be eligible or not ! Find here DASA Eligibility Criteria
• Check DASA 2025 Admission procedure here. Check DASA Admission Procedure
• Are DASA Dates 2025 announced?. Check UG & PG DASA Tentative Dates

Candidates must read this article to get complete details related to DASA 2025 including important dates, application form, corrections, syllabus and many more.

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DASA 2025 Overview

DASA 2025 Important Dates

The tentative schedule of DASA 2025 will be as given in the table below:

UG Courses:

PG Courses:

DASA 2025 Application Form

Here, we have mentioned some necessary details about filling of DASA Application Form 2025:

• The DASA 2025 Application Form will be submitted through online mode.
• The filling of registration form for UG course will be started in third week of March 2025 and for PG Courses in second week of April 2025.
• Candidates will need to register to the website by entering email ID and other details to apply for admission.
• It will be mandatory for candidates to upload their necessary documents such as passport size photographs and signatures.
• Candidates must fill application form carefully, as no correction facility will be provided by authority.
• Candidates will be able to fill the registration form of UG admission till the second week of April 2025 and PG admission till first week of May 2025.
• Do not forget to take the printout of the submitted application form for other references.

Application Fee:

• The registration fee of DASA 2025 will be submitted via online mode.
• Candidates will have to make payment by using different payment gateways i.e. SWIFT Transfer, E-Payment, NEFT, RTGS Transfer etc.
• The application fee of DASA 2025 will  be as follows:

How to Apply for DASA 2025

The step by step procedures to apply for DASA 2025 are as follows:

• Step-1: Visit the website of DASA (link will be given above).
• Step-2: now, register on the website by entering email address and captcha in the given space.
• Step-3: Click on “Create My account”.
• Step-4: An email will be sent to the registered email address with a link to complete registration.
• Step-5: Enter email ID and password to complete account creation & fill application form carefully.
• Step-6: Upload the required documents in a prescribed format.
• Step-7: Press the “Submit” button to submit the completed registration form.
• Step-8: Download the completed registration form and take the printout of it for their own records.

DASA 2025 Eligibility Criteria

Candidates must refer following DASA Eligibility Criteria 2025 before filling the application form:

UG Courses:

• Nationality: All Foreign National students studying in any country or Indian Nationals students studying abroad will be eligible to apply for DASA.
• Age: Candidates born on or after 1st October 2000 will be eligible as per the records of class 10th/University certificate or any Government issued certificate.
• Qualification: Candidates must have passed 12th class or equivalent with 60% of marks in aggregate from an education system recognised by Association of Indian Universities. 
• Subjects: One must have qualified class 12th with subjects like Mathematics, Physics and one of the subjects from Chemistry, Bio-Technology, Computer Science and Biology.
• Appearing: Candidates appearing for qualifying examination in year 2024-25 and expecting their final result by 31st December 2025 will also be able to apply.
• JEE Main Rank: It will be necessary for candidates to have a valid JEE (Main) 2025 Rank to apply for DASA 2025.

PG Courses:

• Nationality: All Foreign National, PIOs, OCIs who have completed their UG degree in any country or Indian Nationals/NRIs who have completed their UG from abroad will be eligible to apply.
• Age: There will be no age restriction to apply for PG Admission.
• Qualification: One must have a Four/Five years UG degree in programmes like Engineering/Technology or equivalent in relevant discipline. For admission to MBA programmes, a UG degree from any stream of education recognised by Association of Indian Universities will be required.
• Appearing: Candidates expecting their final result of qualifying examination by 30th September 2025 will be eligible to apply.
• GRE/GMAT Scores: Candidates must have a valid total of 300 GRE scores and total of 480 GMAT scores.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

DASA 2025 Merit List

The merit list of DASA 2025 will be prepared by the authority for only those candidates who have filled and submitted their online registration form. Candidates will be able to view the merit through online mode. The authority will release merit list for UG programme on the basis of JEE Main Scores 2025.

The DASA 2025 Merit List will be released in third week of April 2025. The preparation of merit list for PG programme will be based on GRE/GMAT scores. Candidates who have valid scores of JEE Main/ GRE/ GMAT/ SAT by MNNIT will be considered to be selected in merit list and seat allotment. 

DASA 2025 Counselling

DASA Counselling 2025 for UG programme will begin in fourth week of April 2025 for admission to UG courses and third week of May 2025 for PG courses. The counselling process will be organised through online mode only. Those candidates who have successfully qualified in entrance exam and listed in merit list will be called for counselling procedure.

DASA 2025 Counselling will involve various stages like registration, choice filling, choice locking, seat allotment etc. There will be four rounds of counselling for admission to UG programme and two rounds of counselling for PG programme.

DASA 2025 Selection Procedure

The selection procedure of DASA 2025 will be done based on the JEE Main Rank and choices filled by candidates in order of their merit and preferences taken together. Allotted candidates will have to report at the respective allotted institute and pay the prescribed fee to confirm their seats.

Those candidates who will be allotted seats in their first choice of institutions have to select one of the following options:

• Accept: Candidates those have satisfied with their currently allotted seats and not interested in further rounds of allotment.
• Accept & Upgrade: Candidates are accepting the currently allotted seats but also wish to be considered for upgradation to higher preferences of institutes in further rounds of allotment.
• Decline: Candidates those are not accepting the allotted seats and wish to withdraw their seats.

A provisional admission letter will be generated for those candidates who accepted the allotted seats. Candidates will have to sign the admission letter and submit it to the allotted institute at the time of admission.

DASA 2025 Participating Colleges/Institutes

Here, we have listed the DASA participating colleges/ institutes:

• National Institute of Technology, Agartala, Tripura
• Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad
• Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar
• Sardar Vallabhai National Institute of Technology, Surat
• Indian Institute of Information Technology, Himachal Pradesh
• Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur
• School of Painting and Architecture, Bhopal
• Punjab Engineering College,Chandigarh
• Netaji Subhas University of  Technology,Delhi
• National Institute of Foundry and Forge Technology, Ranchi 

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