Exam

Having rank 1,142,299 in JEE Main, under OBC NCL category, admission to NITs, IIIT or GFTIs turns out to be virtually impossible, since these colleges are much tougher to get (their turning rank levels are also very high, even 1,500 points lower (below 2.5 lakh), though can be even more). The best college will be the private engineering colleges where most of them will either have direct admissions on, the 12 th marks or entrance exam of their own, or they will have management quota seats. Explore colleges which do not depend on JEE Main scores. Option one, it can be good to consider going to a state level university or college of engineering, they would possibly have an easier admission criteria.

Considering the JEE Main rank of 185,000, there are slim chances that general category student will get a CSE seat in top NIT or IIIT. But you can go ahead and check on newer NITs such as NIT Mizoram, NIT Nagaland, or NIT Sikkim, which might take CSE or some related branches under home state or reserved quota unless there are other less competitive colleges under OBC category, (as is generally the case in NITs). Such options may also include Government Funded Technical Institutes, e.g. Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University or Assam University. Also, a large number of the various private engineering colleges located in India which accept JEE main results or have their own entrance test, could also be providing CSE courses at this level. To have the best possible chances, JoSAA counseling and state-level counseling must be done actively.

According to JEE Main rank in the range of 72000, general category will be unable to get a seat in CSE in high level NITs (such as Trichy, Warangal or Surathkal). But you stand good odds in CSE/IT in new NITs like NIT Agartala, NIT Arunachal Pradesh, NIT Mizoram, NIT Nagaland, NIT Sikkim, NIT Manipur, NIT Puducherry and NIT Srinagar, especially when you can get a home-state quota or a reserved category. Also, Government Funded Technical Institutes (GFTIs) such as Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra; Assam University, Silchar and Tezpur University (in certain courses with respect to the CSE discipline) are also quite probable. You can look into good private Universities which admit JEE Main ranks. Always follow JoSAA and CSAB counseling and do a good research on previous year cutoffs.