AICTE Shutdowns Colleges and Discontinued Courses in India
So, over 55 engineering and technical colleges across India got shut down during the 2025–26 academic year. That’s what the All India Council for Technical Education, AICTE, reported. But here's the thing students the ones already enrolled? They’re fine. They get to finish their deGrees.
The council actually uses two ways to shut things down. Progressive closure, that’s one way. It basically stops new admissions but lets the current students stick around and graduate. Then there’s complete closure. That means programs are fully stopped and students have to move somewhere else entirely. PTI picked up on this mechanism.
Why all this action? The council says it usually boils down to some basic stuff. Low student intake, not enough faculty to handle things, or just failing to meet the required infrastructure norms. It’s a messy situation for those places.
They discontinued over 950 technical courses during that time period alone. That number is huge.
A senior AICTE official mentioned something about the progressive closure aspect. Fifty-eight institutions were put under that system. So, colleges can't take new first-year students in. But existing students? They keep going. Finish up their courses.
It seems most of these affected spots were private managed. Only three were government-aided. The regulator pointed out this too. And those 950 discontinued courses that’s another layer to the story.
Where did this hit hardest? Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra really topped the list for closures, with twelve each. Madhya Pradesh followed with eight. Telangana and Punjab also saw some impact, four institutions each in those states. But you see it everywhere else too. Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Haryana, Odisha, Uttarakhand, West Bengal all had affected places.
AICTE is the body overseeing all that technical education stuff. Engineering, architecture, management, pharmacy programs. They set the standards for everything.
Now, something new is coming up. AICTE decided to implement biannual admissions for engineering, management, and polytechnic courses this year. It’s a two-phase system. The first session will run between July and August. Then there's the second phase, January to February. If someone can’t get in the first time for whatever reason, they get another shot in the second window. They are borrowing ideas from other foreign systems for this setup.
It just shifts things around again. Admissions happening twice a year. It feels like constant adjustment.
Written by Gree News Team — Senior Editorial Board
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