Madhya Pradesh · Affiliating + Teaching university
RGPV
Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya
Bhopal
~490
Affiliated colleges
1998
Established
no grade found
NAAC
Not ranked
NIRF 2025
Admissions & entrance exams
B.Tech (first year)
- JEE Main (MP DTE online counselling, rounds on JEE Main merit)
- Class 12 merit (separate DTE round for seats left after JEE rounds; Physics and Maths compulsory, 45% General / 40% SC-ST)
After diploma · lateral entry
MP DTE lateral entry counselling (dte.mponline.gov.in) for 3-year engineering diploma holders (B.Sc with Maths may be eligible) into 2nd year B.E. No entrance test; merit is from qualifying marks per MP admission rules. Seats are AICTE lateral-entry seats (supernumerary plus vacant 1st-year seats); exact share is in the DTE rule book.
Track LEET dates →M.Tech / MBA / MCA
- GATE (M.Tech, via MP DTE counselling)
- MP DTE counselling on qualifying marks for M.Tech seats left after GATE
- CMAT / MAT for MBA via MP DTE
Counselling: MP DTE online counselling at dte.mponline.gov.in: JEE Main rounds first, then a Class 12 merit round, then college-level counselling (CLC). MP domicile rules apply; 5% NRI seats.
Popular programs
~490 affiliated colleges
All types (engineering, pharmacy, management, MCA); aggregator figure. Wikipedia lists about 200 engineering, 98 pharmacy, 95 MCA, 4 architecture and 85 diploma institutes plus 5 teaching institutes. Dated figure, not from an official RGPV list.
As of Undated (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (aggregator, unverified)
Flagship institutes
- 1University Institute of Technology (UIT-RGPV), BhopalRGPV's own teaching institute, started in 1986 as Government Engineering College, Bhopal
- 2School of Information Technology (SoIT), RGPV, BhopalUniversity teaching department; B.Tech CSBS, M.Tech IT and Data Science
- 3Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology and Science (SGSITS), IndoreGovernment-aided autonomous college
- 4Ujjain Engineering College, UjjainGovernment college
- 5Samrat Ashok Technological Institute (SATI), VidishaGovernment-aided college
- 6Lakshmi Narain College of Technology (LNCT), BhopalPrivate; NIRF 2025 Engineering band 201-300
Recognition & ranking
- UGC
- State university of Madhya Pradesh, set up under MP Act 13 of 1998
- AICTE
- B.Tech/diploma programmes in affiliated colleges and UIT are AICTE-approved
- NAAC
- Not accredited (RGPV's NIRF 2025 filing says no valid NAAC accreditation; an earlier 'A' grade has lapsed and Cycle 2 is in progress)
- NIRF
- Not ranked (NIRF 2025). RGPV submitted data but is not in the Engineering top 300 or the University list.
Placements
NIRF 2025 data: 532 UG (4-year) students placed in 2023-24 at RGPV's own campus departments. Affiliated colleges report separately.
Average / median
₹7.10 LPA (median)
Highest
Not published
RGPV campus departments only (UG 4-year), not affiliated colleges · 2023-24 · source
Affiliated colleges place students on their own, so figures vary widely from college to college.
Industry & incubation
- RGPV Cisco Networking Academy on campus
- Startup Policy 2018 and an E-Cell that runs the 'Imprenditore' event
- Participated in the World Bank-backed TEQIP-III programme
Good to know
- State technological university for all of Madhya Pradesh, covering engineering, pharmacy, MCA, architecture and diploma colleges
- CGPA to %: Percentage = CGPA x 10 (as reported by students from the back of RGPV marksheets; no RGPV notice found online)
- Grade sheets and results are published on result.rgpv.ac.in