MHT CET 2026 Engineering Admissions: 50,841 Seats Vacant After CAP Round 4
The MHT CET 2026 engineering admission through CAP is over, while the institutes are conducting the ACAP / spot round admissions now. As per the latest update, a total of 1,52,452 students have secured seats after CAP Round 4. Check vacant institutional and management quota seats and top branches.
MHT CET 2026 Vacant Seats After CAP Round 4
The State Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell, Maharashtra conducted the MHT CET counselling in four CAP rounds. A total of 2,45,646 students registered for engineering admissions this year. Overall, 380 engineering colleges offer 111 courses, with 2,18,976 seats including management quota seats. Of these, 2,03,293 seats were available through the centralised admission process. A total of 1,52,452 students have secured admission to engineering courses in Maharashtra after the completion of four rounds of the Centralised Admission Process (CAP) 2026. 74.99% of the 2,03,293 seats available through the CAP process have been filled across engineering colleges in the state.
50,841 Seats Available for Institutional Round
With all four CAP rounds completed, the admission process has now moved to the institutional-level and management quota rounds. According to the CET Cell, 50,841 seats remaining after the CAP rounds are available for institutional-level admissions. Another 15,683 seats are available under the management quota. Admissions through these rounds are scheduled to continue until September 14, 2026.
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Computer Engineering most preferred branch
Computer Engineering emerged as the most sought-after engineering branch after CAP Round 4. As many as 23,230 students secured admission in Computer Engineering. The other branches among the top 10 by number of admissions were Mechanical Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Information Technology, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, Computer Science and Engineering (Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning), and Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
Top 10 engineering branches by admissions
| Engineering branch |
Admissions |
|---|---|
| Computer Engineering |
23,230 |
| Mechanical Engineering |
16,918 |
| Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering |
15,971 |
| Computer Science and Engineering |
15,787 |
| Information Technology |
12,494 |
| Civil Engineering |
12,095 |
| Electrical Engineering |
10,192 |
| Artificial Intelligence and Data Science |
8,816 |
| CSE (Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning) |
5,480 |
| Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning |
3,936 |
Students who could not secure a seat during the four CAP rounds can now participate in the institutional-level admission process, subject to the vacancies available at individual colleges. The institutional-level and management quota admission process will remain open until September 14, 2026, as per the CET Cell’s latest announcement.
Commonly asked questions
With 97.5 percentile in MHT-CET, you have a strong chance to get admission in reputed colleges like PICT Pune, VIT Pune, SPIT Mumbai, or Thakur College of Engineering for branches such as IT, ECE, or Electrical. COEP and VJTI may be difficult for CSE. Government colleges like WCE Sangli, SGGS Nanded, and GCOE Amravati are also good options. You can get preferred branches in private colleges and core branches in government ones. Your chances further improve if you belong to a reserved category or have home university advantage within Maharashtra.
With 120 marks in MHT-CET (General category), you are unlikely to get top colleges/branches (like CSE/IT in COEP, VJTI) but can aim for mid-tier private/university-affiliated colleges in less competitive branches.
The round-wise cutoff ranks for MHT CET counselling can be checked on the counselling website at fe2026.mahacet.org. The cutoff for each round for all the participating institutes and branch is made available on the MHT CET portal. Candidates can also check MHT CET cutoff for all participating colleges on the Shiksha page.
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