IIT Mechanical Engineering Cutoff 2025 (All Rounds): JoSAA Counselling Opening & Closing Ranks

The age limit will be applicable as mentioned in JEE Main/JEE Advanced brochure and official website. There is no seperate age limit criteria prescribed for JoSAA counselling.

The Joint Seat Allocation Authority JoSAA is responsible for conducting the counselling process for admission to B.Tech courses in various colleges across India. According to an article on Shiksha. Com, JoSAA colleges include 23 IITs, 32 NITs, 26 IIITs and 33 GFTIs located across India. You can get Computer Science Engineering (CSE) in IITs, NITs and other colleges under JoSAA counselling. CSE is one of the most preferred B.Tech programmes in IITs by candidates who have qualified JEE Advanced over the last three years.

Candidates were able to make choices during JoSAA counselling till June 11.

It is possible to secure a seat at some GFTIs/CFTIs, even with a JEE Main rank above 1 lakh. But, popular branches (like CSE) or top-tier institutions will likely be closed.

The courses offered by the 23 IITs, 31 NITs, IIEST Shibpur, IISC Bangalore, 26 IIITs and 40 Other-Government Funded Technical Institutes (Other-GFTIs) via the JoSAA counselling includes:

• BTech in various Engineering disciplines.
• BSc programs in Science.
• BArch in Architecture.
• Dual Degree programs like B.Tech-MTech and BS-MS.
• Integrated M.Tech and Integrated MSc programs.

The institutes that participate in JoSAA counselling are:

1. 23 IITs
2. IISc Bangalore
3. 31 NITs
4. IIEST Shibpur
5. 26 IIITs
6. 40 Other-Government Funded Technical Institutes (Other-GFTIs)

The JoSAA 2026 counselling round 1 seat allotment result was out on June 13. Candidates can check the seat allotment result by logging into the JoSAA website.

Candidates do not need to apply for each round of JoSAA counselling. The JoSAA counselling registration and choice filling window opens only once before the seat allotments starts. Candidates have to register for JoSAA counselling during the registration window and not before every JoSAA round.

No. You are only allowed to fill choices once before entering the first round of counselling and that choice list is final. Candidates are given only one chance to enter their choice, edit the choices, rearrange them before the choice filling deadline. All candidates have to save and lock their choices within the prescribed deadline. No more chances to fill.edit/rearrange the choices will be provided in the subsequent rounds of JoSAA counselling.

Except in the last round of JoSAA seat allocation, you can change your option from float to slide/freeze and slide to freeze in the online portal.

A JEE rank of more than 70,000 is typically regarded as low, and applicants frequently give up on getting into the NITs and B.Tech programmes of their choice. The good news is that a number of universities, such as NITs and IIITs, accept JEE Main low scores up to 2,000,000. Based on the data from the previous year, NIT Mizoram has the lowest cutoff with a closing rank of 678406 for B.Tech. Civil Engineering (Gender-Neutral). It is followed by NIT Sikkim, which has a JEE Main rank of 639272 for B.Tech. EEE, and NIT Agartala, which has a JEE Main rank of 287950 for B.Tech. Biotech & Bio Chem Engineering. Therefore a rank of 9 Lacs can also have a chance of getting into colleges.

No, choosing the option “Freeze” in JoSAA counselling means that the candidate accepts the offered seat and is satisfied with the allotted course and college.