KEAM 2026 Rank List Released; Admission Process Begins June 30

Thiruvananthapuram: The KEAM 2026 rank list for admission to the state's professional courses has been declared, with 79,717 candidates qualifying in the engineering stream and 26,943 in the pharmacy stream. Admission procedures will begin on June 30.

Of more than 96,000 students who took the engineering exam, 79,717 qualified, with 64,759 students included in the final rank list. In pharmacy, 26,943 of the 31,141 candidates who appeared for the exam made it to the final rank list.

As per All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) norms, engineering admission procedures must be completed by August 14. First-phase option registration will run from June 30 to July 4, with allotment details to be announced on July 8. Admission procedures are to be completed by the last week of July or the first week of August.

Rank holders

Engineering

Rank 1: Roshan Raju (Ayampuzha, Ernakulam) — 586.1408 marks. (He also topped the list among Kerala students in the national-level JEE exam.)

Rank 2: Dhyan Tej Manappatti (Kannur) — 586.1408 marks. (Though he scored the same marks as the topper, he was placed second based on KEAM's tie-breaker rule, which gave precedence to the higher mathematics score.)

Rank 3: Vismaya K R (Thrissur) — the highest rank among female candidates.

Rank 4: Rohith Krishna H (Chottanikkara, Ernakulam)

Pharmacy

Rank 1: Vinayak Narayanan (Porathissery, Thrissur) — 286.257 marks.

Rank 2: Jessy Justin (Ollur, Thrissur).

Rank 3: Diya Fathima (Malappuram).