VACANCY POSITION AS ON 12TH JULY 2011 EVENING
| Category | Anna University | Govt. &Govt.Aided | Self Financing | Grand Total |
| OC | 1431 | 95 | 36519 | 38045 |
| BCM | 192 | 52 | 4394 | 4638 |
| BC | 1436 | 224 | 32137 | 33797 |
| MBC | 1120 | 256 | 25034 | 26410 |
| SCA | 211 | 133 | 3860 | 4204 |
| SC | 991 | 590 | 19204 | 20785 |
| ST | 75 | 46 | 1270 | 1391 |
| Total | 5456 | 1396 | 122418 | 129270 |
OC – Other Caste
BCM – Backward Caste (Muslim)
BC – Backward Caste
MBC – Most Backward Caste
SCA – Schedule Caste (Arundathiar)
SC – Schedule Caste
ST – Schedule Tribes
Anna University has today started the Counseling session for the general category of students and the first batch in the session has today begun at 9 am and the next batch is to be commenced at 3.00 pm. The long gap between two sessions is to hand over the counseling call letter by the distinguished guests in the Anna University. This function will be attended normally by the Education Minister of Tamil Nadu and other educationalists.
For the first batch candidates with minimum marks of 199.75 have been called for. Once the process of allotment is over, the vacancy position will be updated by the Anna University in the internet as well as in the Large screens set up in the counseling venue in the Anna University.
Today there are three more batches of students are to be counselled at 3.00 pm, 4.30 pm and 6.00 pm. Anna University will be updating the vacancy position collegewise and branchwise, this will put the candidates in a very comfortable position to know the vacancies in each college and decide in advance about the preference of branch and college.