Counselling for undergraduate courses in agriculture and science and technology offered by Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) will go online from this academic year.

Of the 3,422 seats, being offered by TNAU, its 14 constituent colleges and 26 affiliated privates colleges across the State, 65 per cent will be filled through state quota, TNAU Vice-Chancellor, Dr K Ramasamy told reporters here today.

The rest of the seats would be filled by colleges from the list of students who apply online on the TNAU portal, he added.

The university had been receiving application online for the past four years, he said adding from this year counselling would go online.

This would be beneficial for students, as they would not need to come here from various parts of the state to participate in the counselling process, the vice-chancellor added.

The online application process will begin from May 18 and go on till June 17 and verification of documents for special reservation will be held from June 18 to 20.

Rank list will be published on June 22 and counselling for special reservation will be held on July 7, he said adding counselling will be in two phases, Ramasamy said.

The first phase of counselling will be held from July 9 to 13 and the second from July 23 to 27, he added.