COMEDK 2026 Round 3 Seat Allotment

Round 3 is the third of four planned rounds in COMEDK's (Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka) UGET counselling for 2026, which allots merit-based Convener Quota seats across roughly 150+ private engineering colleges in Karnataka. Unlike KCET, which is restricted to Karnataka-linked candidates through various eligibility routes, COMEDK counselling remains open to candidates from any Indian state, with no domicile requirement — making Round 3 relevant to a genuinely nationwide applicant pool.

Eligibility in Round 3 covers candidates who accepted a Round 1 or Round 2 seat under the Upgrade option and are still hoping for a better allotment, plus anyone who remains unallotted from earlier rounds. Because Upgrade guarantees your current seat as a floor — you cannot be moved to something worse — there is little downside to continuing to select it through Round 3 unless you have already secured your first-choice college and branch. Candidates who chose Freeze in Round 1 or Round 2 do not participate in Round 3 at all; their admission is already locked in.

Seat availability by Round 3 looks noticeably different from Round 1. Flagship colleges — RV College of Engineering, MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology, BMS College of Engineering, PES University — are almost always fully subscribed for their top CSE and ISE branches by this stage. Round 3 vacancies concentrate instead in colleges just below this top tier, newer or less-established campuses, and branches that see lower initial demand such as Civil or Mechanical Engineering, even at otherwise well-regarded institutes. Occasionally, a Round 1 or Round 2 allottee at a strong college fails to report or upgrades elsewhere, freeing up a genuinely competitive seat — but this is the exception rather than a pattern to rely on.

As with earlier rounds, remember that COMEDK's Round 3 seat matrix reflects only the Convener Quota share of each college's total intake — NRI and management-quota seats at the same colleges are filled separately by the institutions themselves and do not appear in COMEDK's published vacancy figures. If you're weighing whether to keep floating through Round 3 versus exploring management-quota options directly, comparing your current seat against realistic Round 3 movement using the COMEDK College Predictor can help set expectations.

Reporting and fee-payment deadlines remain tight at this stage — typically just a few days after the Round 3 result — so candidates who receive an upgrade must act quickly. If Round 3 doesn't bring the outcome you want, one more round (Round 4) follows, along with a final Spot Admission stage; see our COMEDK 2026 final round guide for what to expect there.