NTA Opens NCET 2024 Applications for UG-BEd Courses

The National Testing Agency (NTA) is going to conduct, in Jun 2024, the National Common Entrance Test (NCET) for admission to 4-Year Integrated Teacher Education Programme (ITEP) in selected Central / State University / Institutions including IITs, NITs, RIEs, and Government Colleges. And it has now started accepting online applications for the same.

Course(s) offered: BA-BEd, BSc-BEd, BCom-BEd (4 Year Integrated programmes)

About the 4 Year Integrated Teacher Education Programme: The ITEP is a Dual Major Programme:

- first major is in Education with School Specific Stage specialization and

- second major is in an opted discipline.

Beyond the teaching of cutting-edge pedagogy, the teacher education will include a grounding in sociology, history, science, psychology, early childhood care, and education, foundational literacy and numeracy, knowledge of India and its values / ethos / art / traditions, and more. [NEP 2020: 15.5]

List of Universities/Institutions: There are 64 participating universities/institutes.

- BA-BEd is offered In 51 Universities / Institutes

- BCom-BEd is offered in 14 Universities / Institutes

- BSc-BEd is offered n 42 Universities / Institutes

Please note that not all courses are offered at every institute. Institute wise list of offering is provided in Annexure II of NTA brochure.

Key dates

Application window: 13 Apr to 30 Apr 2024

Date of entrance test: 12 Jun 2024

Counseling: Candidates who will be appearing in NCET will participate in the Counselling / admission process of any Central / State University / Institution (IITs, NITs, RIEs, and Govt. Colleges) which have been granted recognition by NCTE for ITEP for the academic session 2024-25. University/ Institution / Govt. College may fill up the vacant seats thereafter from the pool of NCET-qualified candidates.

Check NCET-ITEP for complete details about eligibility, test pattern, application procedure, test centres etc.