During Phase-I of this placement session, IIT Kanpur received 1,202 offers from a wide range of recruiters. Students accepted 1,079 offers, including pre-placement offers (PPOs). This shows a very strong placement record this year.

Students have to submit some documents for verification process during IIT Kanpur admissions & applications. The list is as below:

• Class 10 marksheet/ Certificate
• Class 12 marksheet & certificate
• UG degree certificate & marksheets 
• PG degree & Certificate
• JEE/GATE/IIT JAM/UCEED/CAT/CEED scorecard
• Passport

The JoSAA seat matrix for IIT Kanpur will be officially released on the JoSAA website prior to counselling, showing the exact number of seats for each BTech discipline. In previous years, the total combined intake for BTech (across branches) has been around what was seen in IIT Kanpur's earlier matr

IIT Kanpur BTech students had record placements, with overall average packages around INR 26 LPA and the highest domestic/international offers was around INR 1.9 crore. This shows highly competitive compensation packages from top recruiters across industries.

For IIT Kanpur BSc admission, students have to fulfil the basic eligibility. The institute selects students on an entrance basis. The requirements for BSc at IIT Kanpur are as below:

• Class 12 with PCM/ Economics and a minimum aggregate of 75%
• JEE Main + JEE Advanced

No, IIT Kanpur admissions are not possible without JEE scores if the students wants to join BTech or BSc courses. For both courses, JEE Main is mandatory. Also, for BTech admissions, students also need to appear for the JEE Advanced exam. 

Yes, a cutoff rank of 1000 in JEE Advanced is considered a safe rank for getting admission at IIT Kanpur for OBC category students. However, you can't get any BTech specialisation with this rank, as the cutoffs are on the competitive side for popular branches. Some of the available specialisations a

If you belong to the General AI category, the IIT Kanpur BTech cutoff 2026 ranged from 276 to 10552. Based on the first round closing rank 2026, BTech in CSE was the most competitive for admission with the lowest cutoff rank of 276 in the General category. 

To get the core BTech branches, such as Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, etc, the SC category students must target a cutoff rank of up to 6585 for admission in Round 1. The cutoff ranks might vary in other rounds and for other categories. Candidates can refer to the table below to view the BTech core

The IIT Kanpur M.Tech seat matrix includes 462 seats for the General category, 115 for EWS, 173 for SC, 87 for ST, and 312 for OBC. The cutoff for Civil Engineering varies based on specialization, but for Structural Engineering, it was around 540 for General, 480 for OBC/EWS, and 360 for SC/ST i