JoSAA

There is no universal preference order list for JoSAA counseling. Instead, you are advised to provide a preference order on the basis of your requirements and JEE rank. Here are some useful tips to help you make a preference order list: (a) Check the previous year's opening and closing rank of the IIT, NIT, or IIIT you want to put in preference order. You can check it on the Shiksha website, which provides the closing rank of every IIT, NIT, IIIT, and GFTIS. (b) If you are confused between two colleges, prefer college having higher rank in NIRF. (c) If you are confused between two branches, then prefer a college with better placement for the same branch. (d) You can also compare colleges on placement and facility parameters with the help of reliable student reviews available on the Shiksha website for that college. Normally, students with higher rank prefer:
1. IIT Bombay
2. IIT Delhi
3. IIT Kanpur or IIT Madras
4. IIT Kharagpur and so on
than in NITs
1. NIT, Surat
2. NIT, Tiruchirappalli
3. NIT, Warangal
4. Motilal Nehru NIT, Allahabad, and so on. You have to keep in mind your rank as the possibility of getting college and branch will highly depend on your rank. For example, the CSE branch usually has a higher cutoff than the mechanical branch in the same institute.

According to the last year change in closing rank for last round, also JoSAA 2016 was very much similar to JoSAA 2017, So the following changes can be seen in the 7th round this year. NIT+System : Rank change of 5000 to 50000 can be seen for most of the NITs academic programme. There are some top institutes in which CSE, IT or ECE can have very less change. On the other hand lower ranked NITs may show changes up to 2000 ranks. IITSystem No such great change will occur in most of the institutes. You may SEE changes of 300 to 400 in branches like Chemical, Biotech, Geophysics etc. In some IITs. So large changes will occur in 7th round for NITSystem as compared to the previous rounds. I hope this will help.