Can I use a reservation quota at more than one IOE campus?
No. An applicant admitted under a reserved quota at one campus cannot later be admitted under a reserved quota at another, and reserved names are published only for the first three lists.
The reservation is a single use. Two separate restrictions apply and both are easy to miss.
One campus only
An applicant who has been admitted under a reserved quota at one constituent campus cannot later be admitted under a reserved quota at another campus. If you take a reserved seat and then a better list appears elsewhere, you cannot carry the reservation across to it.
First phase only
For TU constituent campuses, applicants wanting admission under any reserved quota have their names published on merit only for the first-phase admission programme, meaning the first, second and third lists. The reservation does not extend into the per-campus lists that run after the third.
What follows for how you rank your choices
If a reserved seat is the route you are relying on, the campus you actually want has to be high in your priority order from the start. Waiting to see how the first list falls and then hoping to use the reservation later does not work in either direction.
It does not replace the entrance
Reserved-category admission still requires passing the entrance and appearing on the central merit list. Reservation affects allocation, not eligibility.
Section 5.3 of the booklet, page 12.
Sources
- IOE B.E./B.Arch Booklet 2083 · published 7 August 2026 · read 18 August 2026
Last reviewed by Ram Raj Thapa, Admissions Officer, Imperial College of Engineering. Every figure on this page is cited to the document it came from.