Vaishnavi Shukla | April 13, 2026 | 09:55 AM IST | 2 mins read
JoSAA Counselling 2026: NIT Trichy opened BTech CSE admissions at 659 and closed rank at 1449 for the open category under 50% other state quota seats in the last round of admission
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Getting into NIT Tiruchirappalli’s BTech CSE programme is the toughest among all NITs, as per the previous session’s JoSAA counselling data analysis. NIT Tiruchirappalli BTech CSE’s closing rank was the highest at 1449, while NIT Nagaland closed with the lowest cutoff at 39594 in the last round of admissions across NITs. JEE Mains 2026 Live Updates
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The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) conducts counselling for admission to 23 IITs, 31 NITs, IIEST Shibpur, 26 IIITs, and 47 Other-Government Funded Technical Institutes (GFTIs). JoSAA will publish the opening and closing ranks for BTech admission for each round separately, once the counselling begins.
National Institute of Technology (NITs) will accept admission to its BTech courses through JoSAA counselling based on Joint Entrance Exams (JEE Mains 2026) AIR ranks and merit. The National Testing Agency (NTA) has issued the JEE Mains 2026 session 2 provisional answer key, and the objection window will close on April 13.
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Notably, only 22 NITs offer admission to BTech electrical engineering programme. The closing rank for the last academic session’s NIT Rourkela EE programme was 10623, the highest among all NITs.
The closing ranks for BTech CSE across NITs under unreserved gender-neutral seats for the 50% other state quota, as per JoSAA counselling’s last round data, are given below.
Institute | Opening Rank | Closing Rank |
NIT Tiruchirappalli | 659 | 1449 |
NIT Karnataka, Surathkal | 1191 | 1827 |
NIT Warangal | 1521 | 2409 |
NIT Rourkela | 2442 | 3431 |
Motilal Nehru NIT Allahabad | 2730 | 4594 |
NIT Calicut | 3651 | 5222 |
Malaviya NIT Jaipur | 3027 | 5601 |
Visvesvaraya NIT Nagpur | 4442 | 6359 |
NIT Kurukshetra | 5180 | 7037 |
NIT Delhi | 2363 | 7651 |
Sardar Vallabhbhai NIT Surat | 6343 | 8130 |
NIT Jamshedpur | 6378 | 8902 |
Maulana Azad NIT Bhopal | 5942 | 9249 |
NIT Durgapur | 6565 | 9836 |
Dr. B R Ambedkar NIT Jalandhar | 7991 | 11262 |
NIT Hamirpur | 9637 | 12586 |
NIT Silchar | 8010 | 12665 |
NIT Raipur | 8140 | 13559 |
NIT Goa | 10279 | 13640 |
NIT Patna | 10529 | 14996 |
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur | 13917 | 16765 |
NIT Andhra Pradesh | 11739 | 18183 |
NIT Uttarakhand | 16359 | 18491 |
NIT Puducherry | 11429 | 19758 |
NIT Agartala | 13104 | 22013 |
NIT Meghalaya | 20712 | 24074 |
NIT Srinagar | 15080 | 26171 |
NIT Sikkim | 15389 | 26616 |
NIT Arunachal Pradesh | 27500 | 30607 |
NIT Manipur | 26617 | 33098 |
NIT Mizoram | 35504 | 37751 |
NIT Nagaland | 32717 | 39594 |
Last year’s JEE Mains closing rank at NIT Trichy for all categories under the 50% other state general-neutral seats in the sixth round of JoSAA counselling is shown in the table below.
Institute | Seat Type | Opening Rank | Closing Rank |
NIT Tiruchirappalli | OPEN | 659 | 1449 |
NIT Tiruchirappalli | OPEN (PwD) | 43 | 43 |
NIT Tiruchirappalli | EWS | 177 | 257 |
NIT Tiruchirappalli | OBC-NCL | 253 | 434 |
NIT Tiruchirappalli | OBC-NCL (PwD) | 18 | 18 |
NIT Tiruchirappalli | SC | 56 | 283 |
NIT Tiruchirappalli | ST | 29 | 64 |
NTA will announce the JEE Mains 2026 April session results by April 20, along with final answer keys. Only the top 2.5 JEE qualifiers will be eligible for the JEE Advanced 2026 exam, which is scheduled on May 17 for admission to IITs.
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