Engineering Entrance Exam

Only in private colleges! They do take admission on the basis of board percentage and donation as well!

You can get good branch in srm but the choice needs to be yours.

You can check your chances from this link. Hope this helps. https://www.shiksha.com/b-tech/resources/jee-mains-college-predictor?utm_source=connect&utm_medium=CR_JEECP&utm_campaign=6375912
O,r you can try for your state government engineering colleges.

Hello,
Hope you are doing well. As you said you have 5K rank in JEE Mains under ST category, so you will be able to get IIIT, NIT and top government college. Go for counselling and get the best college with your marks. You will definitely get computer Science branch with this rank. All the Best.

Hello,
Hope you are doing well. Yes, definitely you will get IIIT or NIT with this rank in JEE Mains along with your branch. For your reference, I am attaching a link for you so that you will get the tentative college you will get based on your marks.
https://www.shiksha.com/b-tech/resources/jee-mains-college-predictor?utm_source=connect&utm_medium=CR_JEECP&utm_campaign=7489993.

Hey there.
You cannot go without entrance exam, so try for some other colleges using the rank of JEE.
Regards.

To be a software engineer, you have to learn the programming languages, so go for B.Tech in computer Science stream and study hard. Regards

For general category, it is impossible to get admission in this college through this rank.
But, keep trying. Hope for the best.