JEE Mains 2026: BTech Electrical Engineering cut-offs highest at NIT Rourkela among all NITs, IIITs, GFTIs

22 NITs, IIITs, and GFTIs offer admissions to the BTech Electrical Engineering (EE) programme and getting into NIT Rourkela’s EE course is the toughest, shows cut-off data for the EE programme in the last season. Admissions to the BTech programme at NITs, IIITs, and GFTIs are based on the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main. More than 13 lakh candidates are waiting for the JEE Main 2026 Jan results. JEE Main 2026 live updates

Government-funded Ghani Khan Choudhary Institute of Engineering and Technology, Malda, in West Bengal, has the lowest cutoff for EE admissions for the 50% other state BTech seats.

According to the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) data, which conducts counselling for BTech admissions based on the JEE Main results, NIT Rourkela’s closed admissions for BTech EE programme at the rank of 10623, only for other states, open, gender neutral-seats.

Among all NITs, the closing rank for NIT Mizoram was the lowest at 51698, whereas among IIITs, the cut-off for IIIT Shibpur was at 23081 for the 50% other state seats.

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As per the National Testing Agency (NTA), the JEE Main 2026 session 1 results will be declared by February 12 on the official website, jeemain.nta.nic.in.

JEE Mains Cut-offs 2026: BTech Electrical Engineering

The closing ranks for BTech EE programme across NITs, IIITs, and GFTIs for 50% other state, open, and gender neutral category seats are shown in the table below.

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Notably, eight NITs offer BTech courses in artificial intelligence and data science and getting into NIT Warangal’s programme is the hardest. However, the closing rank for NIT Patna for BTech-MTech CSE with specialisation in DS programme was the lowest at 17439, while BTech AI and DS cut-off was at 16537, for 50% other state seats, as per the JoSAA data.