Set branch capacity and merit basis
Define each branch or specialisation with its hard seat limit and the merit basis — CGPA, entrance rank, or a composite score you supply.
Specialisations & branch change
Specialisation and branch allotment software
Allotting students to a specialisation after the first or second year — or granting branch changes on merit — is one of the highest-stakes decisions an institution makes, and one of the most frequently appealed. It is also exactly the problem Allotix's engine was designed for.
The highest-stakes allotment, run on the lowest-grade tooling.
Branch and specialisation allotment decides a student's degree. It is contested, appealed, and sometimes litigated — and it is usually resolved in a sorted spreadsheet.
- Hard branch capacity that regulators will not let you exceed
- Merit order that must be provably applied, not just claimed
- Ranked preferences across every branch a student would accept
- Appeals with no traceable record of why a student missed a cutoff
- Cutoffs recomputed by hand every time one student withdraws
How it works
How Allotix runs specialisation & branch allotment
Collect a full ranked preference list
Students rank every branch they would accept, so nobody is left unallotted because they only named one option.
Run the allotment and publish cutoffs
The engine fills branches in strict merit order. The resulting cutoff for each branch is an output of the process, not a guess made in advance.
What you get
Built for this allocation, not adapted to it
- Hard, non-exceedable branch capacity
- Merit order by CGPA, entrance rank or a supplied composite score
- Full ranked preference lists across all acceptable branches
- Cutoffs derived from the actual allotment run
- Complete audit trail for every appeal
FAQ
Specialisation & branch allotment — frequently asked questions
Can we allot branch changes on entrance rank instead of CGPA?
Yes. The merit basis is a field on the student record, so it can be CGPA, an entrance rank, or a composite score your institution computes. The engine simply processes students in that order.
How do we prove the merit order was applied correctly?
Every allocation run produces a traceable record: the order students were processed in, the preferences they submitted, and the seat state at the moment each was allotted. When a student appeals a cutoff, you can show exactly why they fell where they did.
Related allocations
Minor & Honours allocation
Allot minor streams, honours tracks and open minors from an oversubscribed pool.
Open elective allocation
The classic: rank the electives, respect the seat matrix, publish a defensible result.
Section & lab batch allocation
Split a cohort into sections, lab groups or tutorial batches under real capacity limits.