RVCE M.Tech Product Design & Manufacturing: Fees 2026, Course Duration, Dates, Eligibility

R V College of Engineering in Bengaluru offers a two-year, full-time M.Tech in Product Design and Manufacturing with 36 seats. The Mechanical Engineering department teaches it, and the course started in 2004. RVCE holds NAAC A+ and stands #50 in Collegedunia's B.Tech ranking 2026. The full fee for a KEA seat is INR 2.26 Lakhs for two years, without the college bus. You get a KEA seat through your PGCET rank, and GATE holders get seats first. KEA fills 11 of the 36 seats. The General seat closed at rank 6,433 in round 1 of 2026. The Class of 2023 averaged INR 5.85 LPA, and 15 of 28 students were placed.

RVCE M.Tech PDM Fees

The total fees with the college bus is INR 2.96 Lakhs, while the fees without the bus is INR 2.26 Lakhs. The tuition and university fee is INR 1.49 Lakhs of that. You pay INR 80,110 to KEA when you take the seat and INR 32,540 at RVCE when you report. The state fixes these fees for KEA seats. The bus is extra, and you pay it only if you use it.

RVCE M.Tech PDM Admission Dates 2026

Round 1 fee payment and reporting closed on 12 Oct 2026. The window to rearrange your options for round 2 is open from 13 to 15 Oct 2026. KEA has asked the Supreme Court for time to hold more rounds, so round 2 is expected in Nov 2026. Classes for the new batch are also expected in Nov 2026.

RVCE M.Tech PDM Eligibility

You need a B.E. or B.Tech with 50% marks in all, or 45% if you are SC, ST or Category 1 from Karnataka. You also need a PGCET M.Tech rank or a valid GATE score. KEA checks that your degree branch is on its list for this course. If your branch is not on the list, you cannot take this seat.

RVCE M.Tech PDM Admission Process

KEA allots the seat on your PGCET rank and your option entry, and GATE holders are allotted first. You then pay the fee and report at RVCE with your original documents. If you miss the fee or the reporting date, you lose the seat.

RVCE M.Tech PDM Cutoff

The General seat closed at rank 6,433 in round 1 of 2026, and the 2A seat at 7,272. These are KEA round 1 closes for Rest of Karnataka seats. The Kalyana Karnataka General seat closed at 6,561. The 2025 ranks used a different scale, so compare your rank only with the 2026 numbers.

RVCE M.Tech PDM Placements

The Class of 2023 placed 15 of 28 students, or 54%, at an average of INR 5.85 LPA. The highest offer was INR 9.25 LPA and the lowest was INR 3 LPA. The Mechanical department's PG recruiter list has Bosch, Boeing, Textron, Kennametal, Quest Global, Sansera and Molex. The placement cell brings these firms to campus.

RVCE M.Tech PDM Scholarships

Three state schemes pay back the tuition fee of INR 1.49 Lakhs, and one takes off half of it, INR 74,705. All of them need a Karnataka caste and income certificate, and you apply on SSP after you join. GATE holders can get the AICTE stipend of INR 12,400 a month, but you lose it if you take another government scholarship.

RVCE M.Tech PDM Ranking

RVCE stands #50 in Collegedunia's B.Tech ranking 2026 and in the 101 to 150 range of NIRF engineering 2025. It holds NAAC A+, and NIRF placed it #99 in 2024. These ranks judge the whole college, not this one course.

RVCE M.Tech PDM Course Structure

Semester 1 has 19 credits and semester 2 has 23, with prototyping, materials and automation courses. Semester 3 adds a minor project and a 6-week internship, and semester 4 is mostly the major project of 18 credits. The course has 80 credits in all.

RVCE M.Tech PDM Seats and Intake

The course has 36 seats a year, and KEA fills 11 of them in 2026. Ten KEA seats are for Rest of Karnataka and one is for Kalyana Karnataka. The college fills the other seats through its own quota.