JEE

With a JEE Mains rank of 5 lakh, entry into good NITs or IITs is really impossible, especially for competitive streams. But still, you can choose to take good private and semi-government colleges:

1. Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida – Offers good B.Tech courses with acceptable placement figures.
2. UPES Dehradun – Known for engineering and technology courses, offering exposure to the industry
3. Chandigarh University Provides various engineering courses with good campus placement
4. Manipal University Jaipur - For its B.Tech programs and campus infrastructure
5. VIT Bhopal For its quality education and placement in various fields of engineering

Meeting certain cutoff ranks in both JEE Mains and JEE Advanced is necessary to gain admission to the Computer Science Engineering (CSE) branch at prestigious universities like IITs and NITs.

Cutoff percentile for JEE Mains: General Category in 2024 was 93.23.
OBC-NCL Category: 79.68 was the cutoff percentile.

General Category JEE Advanced Cutoff: 30.34% was the cutoff percentile.
OBC-NCL Category: 27.30% was the cutoff percentile.

Institution-Specific Cutoffs: IITs: The starting and ending ranks for CSE change every year. For example, the CSE cutoff for the General category at IIT Kharagpur in 2024 varied from 1 to 1,000.
NITs: In 2024, the General category cutoff for CSE at prestigious NITs like NIT Trichy was approximately 5,066.

Due to higher cutoff ranks it may be difficult to gain admission to prestigious National Institutes of Technology (NITs) for subjects like Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) or the Electrical Engineering (EE) if you have an All India Rank (AIR) of 172383 in JEE Mains and fall within the OBC-NCL category.

Using data from prior years, you may be able to get into less popular branches or newer NITs.

You may want to apply to the following NITs:
NIT Arunachal Pradesh: Arunachal Pradesh's Itanagar, a more recent NIT with comparatively higher cutoff ratings that offers a variety of engineering majors.
Aizawl, Mizoram's NIT Mizoram: offers cutoff ranks for engineering courses that might match your present rank.
Nagaland's NIT: Nagaland's Dimapur provides a variety of engineering specialties chances are increased by typically higher cutoff ranks.

Due to their high cutoff ranks it is doubtful that a candidate with a JEE Main rank of 971,495 will be admitted to one of Delhi's top engineering schools, like IIT Delhi or Delhi Technological University (DTU). Nonetheless a few of private engineering schools in the Delhi NCR area may accept your rank and a two-year educational gap through direct admissions or management quota seats. Among the notable institutes are

A variety of engineering majors are available at Amity University in Noida with direct admission options.
Renowned for its engineering programs and accommodating entrance requirements is Galgotias University.
Updated curricula for industry-focused B.Tech degrees are offered by SGT University in Gurugram.