JoSAA Counselling Round 1 Cutoff 2025 (OUT): Check Opening and Closing Ranks for IITs, NITs, IIITs, GFTIs

JoSAA counselling will start in June 2026, a day after the JEE Advanced 2026 result is announced. The dates for JoSAA 2026 has been announced on the official website of JoSAA - josaa.nic.in. The counselling will include at least 6 rounds of seat allotment.

JoSAA counselling is usually held in 5 or 6 rounds. The admission process for admissions in 23 IITs, 31 NITs, IIEST Shibpur, 26 IIITs and 40 Other-Government Funded Technical Institutes (Other-GFTIs) will be done by JoSAA in various rounds deending on various factors. In these rounds, candidates are allotted seats based on their JEE Main or JEE Advanced rank and preferences filled by them during registration. Candidates who are allotted seats have to either accept or float the seat.

Yes, there are chances. CFTIs admit JEE Main candidates with ranks up to round 10,50,000 in the open and gender-neutral categories. They offer courses like Food Technology and Management, Dairy Engineering, Handloom and Textile Technology, and others to candidates with ranks above 1 lakh.

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.

Admission to IIIT D B.Tech courses is via the JAC Delhi counselling only. Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-Delhi) do not offer admission via JoSAA counselling. Therefore candidates have to apply for JAC Delhi counselling for B.Tech admission to IIIT D. Joint Admission Counseling Delhi conducts JAC Delhi counselling for admission to BE/B.Tech and B.Arch degree programmes offered by 5 technical universities/institutes of the Government of NCT, Delhi. These institutes/universities include Delhi Technological University (DTU), Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women (IGDTUW), Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-D), Delhi Skill and Entrepreneurship University (DSEU), and Netaji Subhas University of Technology (NSUT). .

The filling-in of choices on the online portal is free of cost. The candidate must pay the seat acceptance fee before continuing with the JoSAA process till the end to avail the seat in an IIT or NIT. The documents uploaded by the candidate will not be verified unless the candidate pays the seat acceptance fee. General/Open category candidates are required to pay a fee of INR 35,000, whereas SC, Gen-PwD, ST, OBC-NCL-PwD, ST-PwD, and SC-PwD have to pay INR 17,500. The fees will be included in the semester fees once students confirm their admission.

There is no fee for JoSAA registration. Candidates have to login to the JoSAA portal with their JEE Main application number and password to start their JoSAA counselling process.

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.