Last day today: KLEE 2026 LLB option entry closes at 10 AM, LLM at 5 PM

Today, October 22, is the final day for two separate KLEE 2026 counselling deadlines. The Commissioner for Entrance Examinations (CEE), Kerala, will shut the second-round stray vacancy option entry for the 3-year LLB and integrated 5-year LLB programmes at 10 AM this morning. Later in the day, the Round 1 option registration for the LLM course will also close at 5 PM. Both windows run on the official CEE Kerala portal, and there is no sign of any further extension.

If your name is on the KLEE rank list and you are still without a seat, these are the last calls that matter. Miss them, and this round of the admission cycle passes you by.

LLB stray vacancy: the 10 AM cutoff is hours away

The stray vacancy round fills the seats left empty after the earlier allotments. CEE Kerala opened fresh option registration for this round on October 14, 2026. The first deadline was October 17, but the authority pushed it to October 22 after a wave of extension requests from students.

The new cutoff is strict: 10 AM today. Candidates seeking admission to the 3-year LLB and integrated 5-year LLB programmes in government and private self-financing law colleges across Kerala must submit their college preferences before that time. Only aspirants on the KLEE final rank list who have not been allotted a seat or have not joined a college in the previous rounds are eligible for this round.

The vacant seat matrix on the official portal lists over 200 seats for the 3-year LLB and over 600 seats for the 5-year integrated course in this round. Students who wait until the last minute risk getting locked out by heavy traffic on the portal.

Our college admission alerts section tracks deadlines like this across India, so bookmark it if you are following more than one counselling process.

“The previous deadline of October 17 was extended after students asked for more time. This time, there is no further extension on the table. Submit your options before the portal closes.”

LLM Round 1: the 5 PM last call for PG law aspirants

The LLM side of the KLEE 2026 process also reaches its deadline today. Round 1 option registration for the postgraduate law course, which started on October 1, closes at 5 PM on October 22.

This is already the second extension for the LLM round. CEE Kerala moved the deadline forward earlier this month, which tells you the authority does not want eligible candidates to slip through because of a missed date. PG candidates must log in with their application number and password, select their preferred colleges and courses, arrange the options in order of preference, and confirm the submission.

Around 200 LLM seats are expected to be filled through the first-round allotment across government and private law colleges in Kerala. The authority is yet to announce the Round 1 seat allotment and institute reporting dates.

How to fill your KLEE 2026 option entry in time

The process is fully online. Follow these steps on the official portal:

• Open cee.kerala.gov.in and click the candidate portal link for your course: 3-year LLB, 5-year integrated LLB, or LLM.
• Log in with your application number, password, and the access code shown on the screen.
• Find the “Option Registration” tab in your profile menu.
• Review the vacant seat matrix and pick the colleges and courses you want.
• Put your choices in order, with your most preferred college at the top, and save them.
• Confirm the final list and take a printout of the confirmation page for your records.

Submit early. Portal slowdowns in the final hour are common on deadline days, and a choice that is half-filled when the clock runs out does not count.

Three things to double-check before you submit

Fresh choices are mandatory in each round. Choices you filled in an earlier round do not carry over, so everyone in this round must enter preferences again.

The order of your options decides your allotment. Seats are given on the basis of rank, category, and the order in which you listed your choices. A careless order can land you a seat you ranked lower even when a better one was within reach.

Keep an eye on the rest of the law admission season too. The MH CET 3-year LLB Round 4 merit list covered Maharashtra’s latest admission round, and students planning for next year’s exams should note the CLAT 2027 registration deadline of October 31. One counselling cycle feeds directly into the next.