JEE Main College Predictor: Find college & branch based on your rank

After filling-in these details, you will be provided with a search result wherein you can view a list of colleges with their name and location. Apart from this, you can also find out the branches in which you will be offered at that rank mentioned by you in the tool. Also, details about the counselling round in which you will be offered admissions into the college as well as branch will also be mentioned. Students will also be informed about the “Closing Rank” at which the specific college and engineering branch will be offered for admissions. Find out more about JEE Main Cut-Off Predictor here.

Candidates need to note that the predictions made in the college predictor tool are done on the basis of closing ranks of JEE Main 2016.

So, to understand how to use the College Predictor tool of Shiksha, let us go through all the key feature of this tool, so that, you can quickly and easily find out the list of colleges as well as engineering course branches wherein you will be eligible for admissions on the basis of your JEE Main rank.

Step 1- Enter rank/predicted rank

In the first step, aspirants need to fill in their JEE Main rank or the rank they expect to achieve in the engineering exam (when the result has not been declared).

You are also given the option of finding your expected rank in JEE Main, all you need to do is click on a small blue link stating – “Find your Rank”. On clicking this link a window opens and here you can view the “Expected Marks in JEE Main” and the corresponding rank of students in JEE Main. However, it should be noted here that the ranks listed here are particularly shown on the basis of your JEE Main marks/predicted scores.

Use Shiksha's JEE Main rank predictor tool to find out what your rank will be in the exam. Find out how to use JEE Main 2015 Cut-off Predictor tool here.

Step 2 – Enter rank type

After entering the expected rank in the JEE Main College Predictor you will have to select from ‘Other rank’ or ‘Home State Rank’ in the – Enter Rank Type field.

In JEE Main, seats are reserved for students under the home state quota. As part of this quota, seats are reserved for aspirants on the basis of their state of eligibility, which is, state from where he/she has completed his/her Class XI and Class XII. Such, students are given preference for securing admissions in colleges located in their home state.

In the next field, you will have to select from any of the listed categories, which are – general, general-physically disabled (general-PD), other backward classes (OBC), other backward classes-physically disabled (OBC-PD), schedule caste (SC), schedule caste-physically disabled (SC-PD), schedule tribe (ST) and schedule tribe physically disabled (ST-PD), that they filled in their JEE Main application form.

In this section of JEE Main College Predictor, you need to select the counselling round for which you want to predict your college and branch. The counselling round option available for selection are – Counselling Rounds (All), Round 1, Round 2, Round 3, Spot round and Extra spot round.

In the first three counselling rounds, only government colleges are offered to shortlisted candidates. However, if after these rounds also some seats are still left vacant then two additional counselling rounds are conducted these are called spot round and extra spot round. Private engineering colleges can take part only in the spot and extra round of counselling for JEE Main.

After filling all these fields, you need to click on the “Search button”. The first time a candidate fills all the above mentioned details, a list of 15 colleges will be reflected before them. At the end of the list, there is a button stating – Load more results, on clicking this button another 15 colleges will be listed for students.

JEE Main College Predictor Tool helps to compare colleges

Students can also view more details about the colleges listed for them on the basis of their JEE Main rank or expected rank by downloading the college’s e-brochure. Apart from this, students are also provided with a feature to compare any four colleges in which they can expect to secure admissions in the counselling round specified in the College Predictor Tool of Shiksha.com.

The college compare tool will provide the below mentioned details of the colleges compared:

• Location
• Year of Establishment
• Course Name
• Alumni Rating
• Course Duration
• Mode of Study
• Affiliations
• Top Recruiting Companies
• UGC Recognition
• Fee
• Eligibility
• Hostel
• Transport Facility
• Wifi Campus
• Free Training

After viewing all these details, aspirants can vote for the colleges that they have compared.

Check out the JEE Main college predictor now!