Engineering

IIT Jodhpur JEE Advanced cutoff 2025 for the BTech in Mechanical Engineering specialisations was released for all rounds and various All India categories. 

For the General AI category, the round 1 closing cutoff was 8980, which later increased to 9569 in the last round. Students can refer to the list of pointers below to know the cutoff range for IIT Jodhpur BTech cutoff 2025 for all other categories. 

• OBC: 3875 - 4024
• SC: 2155 - 2334
• ST: 1038 - 1111
• EWS: 1467 - 1594

IIT Gandhinagar CSE Cutoff 2025 was released for all rounds and categories under the All India quota. 

For the General AI category, the cutoff in the first round was 1872, and in the last round, it was 2020. On the other hand, for the OBC AI category, the overall cutoff for CSE varied between 791 and 805. Refer to the list of pointers below to know the qualifying closing ranks for all other categories. 

• SC: 420 to 428
• ST: 178 (same in the first and last round)
• EWS: 281 to 308
• PWD: 58 to 83

India has a lot of great engineering colleges, but if you're asking in a general sense, the IITs and top NITs are usually seen as the top. Apart from that, a few private institutes also get mentioned a lot, and Thapar University surely ranks among the top private engineering colleges in india because of its placements, coding culture, and overall student ecosystem. So yeah, “top” depends on what you value, but Thapar is definitely up there in the private space.

The JEE (Main) cut off for BTech CSE in NIT Durgapur is different for Home state candidates and Other state candidates. Also, the cut off varies according to the category of students (Gen/OBC/SC/ST/EWS). Usually the cut off for the General category students for BTech CSE in NIT Durgapur is 10000 to 12000.

NIT Srinagar BTech admissionsare currently not open for the academic year 2026. The institute usually opens the NIT Srinagar BTech admissions around the month of June. The admissions are decided based on the JoSAA counseling which takes into account the JEE Mains score of a candidates to allot BTech seats at NIT Srinagar.

Honestly, if you're comparing private vs government purely for software engineering, government colleges usually have stronger brand value on the degree, but the real difference comes down to environment and opportunities. A private college like Thapar University is often seen as one of the top private engineering colleges in india because it gives you a strong peer group, active coding culture, and good placement exposure, which matters just as much as brand later on. In the end, a supportive ecosystem where you actually build projects, intern, and network can beat a random government college with a name any day.

IIT Guwahati had conducted GATE exam on Feb 7 and 8 for following papers -

Candidates can check brief difficulty level of the papers below.

The IIT Dhanbad CSE cutoff 2026 was 3994 for the General AI category students in the first round. The IIT Dhanbad  JEE Advanced cutoff 2026 was announced for admission to the CSE and other specialisations for the first round. 

Students can check the table below for the round 1 cutoff for the other All India categories. 

The median package recorded during Jamia Hamdard M.Tech placements 2024 was INR 6.2 LPA. In 2023 and 2022, M.Tech median package was 5.9 LPA and 4.3 LPA.

Students placed during Jamia Hamdard M.Tech placements in the past three years is mentioned below: