For All India & NRI Sponsored Candidates: means the Higher Secondary School Certificate Examination, (Standard XII,  10+2 Science stream pattern) of examination of any recognized Central/State Board of Secondary Education, including Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi, and Council for Indian School Certificate Examination, New Delhi.

OR

Intermediate Science or Two-year Pre-University Examination conducted by a recognized Board/University

OR

Final Examination of the Two-year course of the Joint Services Wing of the National Defence Academy

OR

Any Public School/Board/University Examination in India recognized by the Association of Indian Universities as equivalent to the 10+2 system, science stream

OR

H.S.C. Vocational Examination

OR

Senior Secondary School Examination conducted by the National Open School with a minimum of five subjects.

OR

Three or four-year diploma recognized by AICTE or a State Board of Technical Education

For NRI Candidates:

Means Senior Secondary (10 + 2) or equivalent with Science subjects from an academic Institutions located outside India and as recognized by the Government of India/ Association of Indian Universities (AIU) , New Delhi.

Admission to the First Year of the Bachelor of Technology shall be given as under, namely:

Gujarat Seats (50%): For the purpose of admission on Gujarat Seats, a candidate has to apply at ACPC and fulfill the criteria as per ACPC norms.

All India Seats (35%): A candidate seeking admission on All India Seats shall apply on-line, for the registration of his candidature, on the PDPU website, within the time limit specified by PDPU.

35% seats shall be reserved by PDPU, for those candidates who have passed the Qualifying Examination from the schools located in India and have appeared in JEE (Main) 2017.

NRI/NRI Sponsored Seats (15%): There is a common form for All India applicants and NRI applicants. The Indian applicant will have to specify whether his application should be considered also as NRI Sponsored application or not.

For the purpose of admission on All India Seats and NRI Sponsored Seats:  A candidate should have secured a rank in Paper – 1 of JEE (Main) 2017

AND

A candidate should have passed the Qualifying Examination with minimum 45% marks (40% in case of SC / ST) in aggregate in theory and practical of Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics.

For NRI Candidates: Candidate must have passed the qualifying examination abroad and is exempted from appearing in JEE (Main)-2017.

In case, Letter Grade / Performance Index or Graded Point Average is awarded instead of percentage marks in qualifying examination, equivalence certificate is required from the school authority.

 Such candidate will have to produce equivalence certificate of qualifying examination from Association of Indian Universities (AIU), New Delhi.

Reservation Rules: 

• Scheduled Caste (SC):15 %
• Scheduled Tribe (ST): 7.5%
• Physically Handicapped (PH): 3%