Paramedical

B.AOTT: Anaesthesia and Operation Theatre Technology

The four-year degree for the technologists who run the operating theatre and support the anaesthetist.

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Duration
4 years, including internship.
Who can apply
10+2 with Science (Physics, Chemistry and Biology), with at least 50% aggregate for the open category and 45% for reserved categories.
Entrance exam
None · admission on 10+2 eligibility
Full rules

None prescribed by NCAHP, and this is the one of the six whose curriculum never mentioned NEET at all. The Commission's 2026 corrigenda replaced the NEET clause with a 10+2 merit list for laboratory science, radiology, optometry and emergency medical technology, and physiotherapy's requirement was deferred to 2027-28. Admission is on the 10+2 eligibility; an individual university may run its own process, so we confirm the route for the college you are considering.

Where we place students
Karnataka, Bihar, Jharkhand, Delhi NCR

Verified against: University Grants Commission (checked on 11 Sept 2026); National Commission for Allied and Healthcare Professions (checked on 8 Oct 2026)

Anaesthesia and operation theatre technologists are the people who make surgery possible: preparing the theatre, running the equipment, assisting the surgical team and supporting the anaesthetist from induction to recovery. Every hospital with an operating theatre employs them.

No NEET requirement here. NCAHP’s curriculum for this course, all 278 pages, does not mention the exam, and it is the only one of the six that never did. The Commission’s 2026 corrigenda replaced NEET with a 10+2 merit list for laboratory science, radiology, optometry and emergency medical technology, and physiotherapy’s requirement was deferred to 2027-28. If a coaching centre has told you that all allied health courses now need NEET, none of these six does this year.

The degree is four years including internship. You need 10+2 with Physics, Chemistry and Biology at 50%, or 45% if you are in a reserved category, and, unusually, that relaxed figure is written into the curriculum itself rather than left to each state.

UGC’s degree notification of August 2026 fixes the qualification’s name as B.AOTT. Colleges may still describe the course as “B.Sc. OT Technology” or similar; the degree they award has to carry the specified name.

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