Ph.D. in Humanities and Social Science 

at NIT Patna, Patna

The highest and average package recorded during NIT Patna placements over the past three years is mentioned below:

NIT Patna admission procedure vary from one course to another. Some of the basic rounds included for all the courses are online registration, selection rounds, release of cutoff/merit list, followed by counselling and seat allotment. In the below section, details about stages of the admission process are explained:

Step 1: Candidates seeking admission have to apply for the respective accepted exam through the conducting body official website. The application process is online for all the programmes. For some courses like PhD, aspirants need to visit NIT Patna official website to apply.

Step 2: NIT Patna accept national-level exam such as JEE Main, GATE, IIT JAM for admission to BTech, MTech, and MSc, respectively. 

Step 3: Candidates shortlisted based on exam score further have to participate in the respective counselling process such as JoSAA for BTech, CCMT for MTech, and CCMN for MSc. 

Step 4: The selected candidates have to further pay the admission fee to confirm their seats.

Getting into the flagship programme of NIT Patna i.e. BTech requires passing JEE Main. The cutoffs are usually competitive due to large number of applicants and less no. seat availability. It may be challenging for General category candidates to get into popular branches such as CSE with a 95 percentile. However, aspirants belonging to reserved category or female candidates can get admission with a 95 percentile.

Some of the eminent companies that were part of NIT Patna placements are listed below:

To get admission to NIT Patna, you must attain the rank as per the cutoff list for the category you belong to. NIT Patna JEE Main cutoff 2025 has been released for the third round. The cutoff was released for All India as well as Home State category candidates. Among the General AI category candidates, the cutoff ranks varied between 1070 and 45208.Therefore, candidate must attain a rank below 45208, if there is no choice of specialisation. 

Among the General Home State quota, the ranks closed between 4169 and 54616. Therefore, candidate must obtain a rank below 54616. 

To check all the details for NIT Patna cutoff, such as category-wise, round-wise and year-wise data, click here.

The placement highlights at NIT Patna in 2025 for UG and PG programs are mentioned below:

The branch-wise placement percentage recorded during NIT Patna BTech placements 2025 is mentioned below:

Yes, NIT Patna provides good placements to its students. The key placement highlights of 2025 and 2024 are mentioned below:

Yes, it is possible to get admission to NIT Patna with 40000 rank in JEE Main. The closing ranks for NIT Patna JEE Main cutoff 2025 was between the range of 1070 and 45208, among the General AI category candidates. Looking at the cutoff range, we can say that getting admission with a rank of 40,000 is possible. However, the choice of specialisations at this rank would be vey limited. 

Similary, the closing ranks among the OBC AI category candidates also, admission at 40000 rank is possible. For the OBC AI category, the closing ranks varied between 613 and 14809. 

For more information on category-wise, quota-wise, round-wise and year-wise cutoff data, check out this page.

NIT Patna is among the top Engineering institutes in India. Students can make a selection of college by comparing desired colleges on certain parameters to determine the ROI (return on investment). Given below is the comparison between a few NITs for their BTech course considering parameters such as total fee and average package:

NOTE: The above-mentioned fee is taken from the official website/sanctioning body. It is however subject to changes and hence, is indicative.