Hooghly Institute of Technology

The way HETC admissions through JELET are conducted.

HETC admits JELET to lateral entry (i.e. to 2nd year) with a Diploma in engineering/ technology.


With 2024 counselling, HETC B.Tech (lateral) courses were ranked last with the general-category, with most courses ranging from in the range of 7760-7916 (across branches) to allocate seats.

Caution 410 rank is probably not high enough.

410 is a far better position than 7760 - however, JELET ranking is such that the lower the rank the better the merit. Wait, that is that 410 is higher merit than 7760.

However — there's a catch. The announced range of the scale of the rank that was used to rank in the lateral-entry seats of HETC implies that only individuals whose JELET rank was at or below 7900 were offered a seat in 2024. As 410 falls comfortably within that, one would say on that basis that 410 also should be eligible.

BUT - I had a look at several reputable cut-off lists without basing my conclusions on them and did not find Chemical Engineering on any of the lateral-entry lists of HETC. HETC appears to have B.Tech programs of traditional admission (WBJEE / JEE Main) - and lateral entry programs, to which they have few branches.


In addition, cutoffs are dependent on branches, seat-availability, number of applicants. The fact that the overall cutoff range among courses was 7760-7916 does not necessarily mean that Chemical Engineering had positions of lateral entry in your year.

My Position — You may, but you have no chances.

With JELET rank = 410:

You are high in merit position - that is in your favour.

However, since the degree of Chemical Engineering might not be offered at HETC at that time as a lateral entry option, or even seats might be looked at in some other branch, there is no assurance that you will have that branch.