Cusat publishes results of BTech, LLB, PG programmes
The Cochin University of Science and Technology (Cusat) has published the final semester results for various postgraduate (PG), BTech and LLB programmes. The results are available on the student portals: https://estudents.cusat.ac.in/ and https:// https://cusat.samarth.edu.in/, according to a release.
The pass percentage for the BTech final examinations is 78.38. For the five-year LLB programme, the pass percentage is 76.4.
The results for nine BTech programmes—Civil Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Safety and Fire Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Polymer Science and Engineering, Instrumentation and Control Engineering and Naval Architecture and Ship Building—were released on June 12, 2025, the release said.
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