For taking admission to PSG College of Technology through lateral entry, there are two main ways. The first is through counseling and the second through management quota. A detailed description of the processes of both ways is listed below.

• For admission through counseling, you have to register for the counseling session that is conducted at Alagappa Chettiar University at Karaikudi.
• The chances of getting a call for counseling depend on your final year diploma result percentage. To be very clear, you will receive a call for the first day of counseling, or have a rank of at least 10, have very high chances of getting admission at PSG college of technology.
• For general category students, a percentage of at least 96% is required for PSG. For BC or MBC students, a score above 94% seems to be a good enough score and for SC/ SCA/ ST, it is 92% and above in general.
• Coming to the second way, students from any state can take admission in PSG College of Technology through management quota.
• The fees for management quota seats at PSG vary from Rs. 5 to Rs. 10 Lakhs donation amount, which is quite a huge sum.
• The application for admission of lateral entry students is issued at all government institutes in all districts of Tamil Nadu and is mostly released during mid of May.
• The application cost is free for SC/ST students provided they submit an attested copy of the community certificate during the time of application filling.

The procedure mentioned above is applicable for all of Tamil Nadu, having similar processes of application and admission.