Direct Admission of Students Abroad (DASA) Scheme of Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India aims to facilitate admission of Foreign Nationals / Persons of Indian Origin (PIOs) / Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) for Undergraduate & Postgraduate programmes in Engineering / Architecture / Planning and MBA in National Institutes of Technology (NITs), Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs), Schools of Planning and Architecture (SPAs) and other premier centrally-funded institutions in India.

The undergraduate admission online portal has already been launched on April 1, 2014 and the Postgraduate admission portal would be launched on May 1, 2014. Undergraduate admissions are based on SAT Subject Test Scores and PG admissions are based on GRE and GMAT respectively. More details on the programme are available at www.dasanit.org