JEE Main 2026: IIT Delhi’s CSE, EE most opted; last 2 years' closing ranks for all categories
Vaishnavi Shukla | November 6, 2025 | 05:02 PM IST | 2 mins read
Joint Entrance Examination Main 2026: The closing rank for IIT Delhi’s BTech in Computer Science and Engineering under the open gender-neutral category dropped by 10 points – from 116 to 126 this year.
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Try NowAt the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, Computer Science (CSE) and Electrical Engineering (EE) have continued to be the most preferred choices among candidates, with 27,697 students opting for CSE and 23,503 choosing EE. The IIT Delhi’s BTech CSE closing rank fell by 10 points from 126 to 116 under the open gender neutral category, as compared to last year’s closing rank.
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According to the Joint Implementation Committee (JIC) Report 2025, the BTech Design programme was the least preferred, with only 3,173 students selecting it.
While at IIT Bombay , a total of 28,705 candidates chose the BTech CSE and 24,123 selected EE, and 21,412 opted for mechanical engineering, as per the IIT Kanpur’s JIC 2025 report.
Notably, IIT Delhi introduced the BTech Design programme with an intake capacity of 20 students, admitting candidates based on either the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) or the Undergraduate Common Entrance Examination for Design (UCEED) scores. The programme requires a total of 155 credits for completion.
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JEE Main 2026: IIT Delhi’s most, least opted courses
The least and most opted courses by candidates at IIT Delhi in the last two years are as follows.
|
Courses |
2025 |
2024 |
|
Chemical Engineering |
9920 |
9219 |
|
Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering |
9930 |
9563 |
|
Civil Engineering |
16128 |
15122 |
|
Chemical Engineering |
16591 |
15805 |
|
5-year Computer Science and Engineering
|
17825 |
16188 |
|
Electrical engineering (power and automation) |
17722 |
16226 |
|
Maths and computing |
20087 |
18760 |
|
Mechanical Engineering |
20357 |
19035 |
|
Computer Science Engineering |
27697 |
25064 |
|
Electrical Engineering |
23503 |
21855 |
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JEE Main 2025: IIT Delhi’s CSE last two year’s closing ranks
The closing ranks for IIT Delhi CSE programmes as per the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) are as follows.
|
Programme name |
Seat Type |
Gender |
Closing Rank 2025 |
Closing Rank 2024 |
|
4-year BTech CSE |
OPEN |
Gender-Neutral |
126 |
116 |
|
4-year BTech CSE |
OPEN |
Female-only (including Supernumerary) |
498 |
556 |
|
4-year BTech CSE |
OPEN (PwD) |
Gender-Neutral |
3 |
5 |
|
4-year BTech CSE |
OPEN (PwD) |
Female-only (including Supernumerary) |
20 |
68 |
|
4-year BTech CSE |
EWS |
Gender-Neutral |
34 |
35 |
|
4-year BTech CSE |
EWS |
Female-only (including Supernumerary) |
148 |
145 |
|
4-year BTech CSE |
OBC-NCL |
Gender-Neutral |
91 |
89 |
|
4-year BTech CSE |
OBC-NCL |
Female-only (including Supernumerary) |
551 |
394 |
|
4-year BTech CSE |
OBC-NCL (PwD) |
Gender-Neutral |
4 |
3 |
|
4-year BTech CSE |
SC |
Gender-Neutral |
45 |
50 |
|
4-year BTech CSE |
SC |
Female-only (including Supernumerary) |
171 |
102 |
|
4-year BTech CSE |
SC (PwD) |
Gender-Neutral |
3 |
2 |
|
4-year BTech CSE |
ST |
Gender-Neutral |
26 |
23 |
|
4-year BTech CSE |
ST |
Female-only (including Supernumerary) |
87 |
52 |
|
4-year BTech CSE |
ST (PwD) |
Gender-Neutral |
2 |
3 |
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