✦ NRI / Foreign National quota: A smaller quota — usually 5–15% — reserved for NRI, OCI, and foreign national candidates, often with a separate (and usually higher) fee structure. ✦ Direct admission via institute’s own entrance test: Several deemed universities in Pune conduct their own management aptitude test (in addition to accepting national-level scores) and admit candidates directly based on that test plus a personal interview/group discussion. ✦ Last-round vacant-seat admission: After the centralized admission process (CAP) conducted by the Maharashtra State Common Entrance Test Cell concludes its rounds, any seats that remain vacant in government, government-aided, or university-managed institutes can be filled by the institute directly — again subject to minimum eligibility, not arbitrary selection.