NIT

With an OBC NCL category rank of 1,51,000, it becomes quite challenging to secure a seat in the core branches of NITs or IIITs through JoSAA rounds. However, a few newer IIITs or GFTIs may still have openings in streams like Metallurgy, Production, or even Civil in later rounds. Keep an eye on spot round announcements and also consider private colleges with good reputations and lateral entry or transfer options in the second year.

Since you have a 98.83 percentile in JEE Main, there are great chances of computer Science (CS) branch in various good NITs. Although you may find it quite competitive to secure CS in the best NITs like the Trichy, Warangal and Surathkal, chances are you will get CS in NIT Delhi, NIT Kurukshetra, NIT Durgapur, NIT Jalandhar, NIT Patna, NIT Raipur, NIT Hamirpur, NIT Goa, NIT Silchar and NIT Andhra Pradesh. Your prospects are better still, when you have a home-state quota or fall under one of the reserved categories. Make sure that the cut offs of the previous year are looked up in JoSAA counselling.

You can study a 5-month online Professional Certificate Course in Data Engineering offered by IIT Kanpur after completing your graduation in a related field. For the NITs, none of them offer a dedicated Data Engineering course as yet, but you can have a look at related courses like BTech in AI and Data Science or BTech CSE with some elective modules on Data Engineering basics.

Yes, definitely you can pursue Masters in Technology M.Tech in Data Science from Indian Institute of Technology IITs and National Institute of Technology NITs through Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering GATE because both the institutions accepts GATE entrance exam scores primarily for admission to MTech. There are some other colleges in Delhi who offers M.Tech course through Gate scores like Delhi Technological University DTU, Amity University Noida, Netaji Subhas University of Technology NSUT, Indraprastha Institution of Information Technology IIIT Delhi.

Yes, you can get some NIT which are situated near Uttar Pradesh which have low cutoff ranks including NIT Patna, NIT Allahabad and NIt Bhopal. You may be able to get branches like Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering in NIT Patna or NIT Allahabad.

If you got 98.8 percentile in JEE Mains exam then it is considered as most best score 

The possible NIT names are given as following 

1 MNIT Allahabad 

2 VINIT Nagpur 

3 NIT Surathkal 

4 NIT Rourkela 

5 NIT Trichy 

With JEE Main CRL rank 99500 and OBC-NCL rank 33000, consider:

- *NITs:* NIT Patna, NIT Jamshedpur, NIT Allahabad, NIT Bhopal, NIT Calicut

- *Branches:* Electronics, Electrical, Mechanical Engineering

- *Next Steps:* Check JoSAA website for cutoff ranks and participate in counseling for seat allocation.

You might not get good NIT colleges and also good branch in NIT, you might have to take lower NIT and the branches will be like civil, chemical, environmental engineering

While for IIIT, you can try for IIIT Nagpur with lower branch, also, you can try. IIIT Ranchi. 

No, it's not possible to get a seat at NIT in admission process 2025 with this JEE Mains score because your score 61 would be around 70-80 percentile which is very low as compared to the cutoff percentile of NITs even it is very difficult to get a lower ranked NITs like NIT Patna, Bhagalpur if you belong to Unreserved category there may be chance if you belong to SC ST category to get low ranked NITs.

The JEE Main scores are admitted at all of 31 National Institutes of Technology (NITs) in India to various courses of Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech). These are famous NITs such as NIT Trichy, NIT Warangal, NIT Surathkal, MNIT Jaipur, NIT Rourkela and many others scattered in various states. Your JEE Main rank will determine whether you get an admission into a particular college and in a particular branch and category, cutoffs change every year with variables such as the difficulty of the exam and its number of applicants.