PANAJI
The centralised admissions for undergraduate courses across 40 government and aided colleges will commence from Monday with the Directorate of Higher Education (DHE) set to accept online applications for the academic year 2026-27.
Over 16,000 students cleared their Class 12 exams 2026. A total of 10,000 seats are available across these 40 colleges. Candidates have to apply through the Samarth e-Gov portal available on https://www.dhe.goa.gov.in.
Director DHE Bhushan Sawaikar said the admissions are available for UG programmes such as BA, BCom, BSc, music, theatre, home science, BVoc, BCA, BBA, BA BEd, BSc BEd, BPEd, BA LLB, BSc Agriculture etc.
“Centralised admissions will be carried out for all government and aided UG programmes under the administrative control of DHE Goa,” Sawaikar said.
Colleges offering BBA and BCA programmes will conduct an offline entrance exam for applicants. But each candidate must register only once on the Samarth e-Gov portal.
The candidates can apply to a maximum of five colleges/programmes of their choice. They may also apply to multiple programmes within the same college. “The preparation of merit list and counselling will be done by the respective colleges,” the DHE said.
Students will require their SSC marksheet, HSSC marksheet, Aadhaar card or passport copy, all in the PDF format, besides a passport-size colour photo in the JPEG format, and signature in the JPEG format while applying online. Additionally, candidates applying under the reservation categories (SC/ST/OBC/EWS/PH) must provide a valid certificate.
DHE had introduced a centralised online admission system in 2020.
