Suviral Shukla | June 1, 2026 | 01:04 PM IST | 2 mins read
JEE Advanced 2026: A total of 121 institutes, including 23 IITs, 31 NITs, IIEST Shibpur, 26 IIITs, and 40 GFTIs, will admit students for their engineering programmes.
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The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) has issued the JoSAA Counselling 2026 schedule for admission to Engineering programmes. JEE Advanced 2026 qualified candidates will be able to register for the JoSAA counselling 2026 and participate in the choice filling process from tomorrow. The registration link will be active at 5 pm at josaa.nic.in. JEE Advanced Result 2026 Out LIVE.
The JoSAA Counselling 2026 will be held for BTech aspirants aiming to secure engineering seats at participating institutes. A total of 121 institutes, including 23 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), 31 National Institutes of Technology (NITs), IIEST Shibpur, 26 IIITs and 40 Other-Government Funded Technical Institutes (Other- GFTIs ) will admit candidates as per their rank, category, choices filling, availability of seats, academic performance.
The JoSAA Counselling 2026 will be conducted in five rounds and an additional round for IITs, and NITs system only.
Moreover, candidates who will qualify in the Architecture Aptitude Test (AAT) will be able to fill in their AAT-specific choices from June 7, according to the schedule.
The authority will publish the mock seat allocation 1 on June 7 at 8 pm. The allocation will be done on the basis of choices filled by the candidates.
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Here is the complete JoSAA counselling 2026 schedule given in the table below.
Date | Time | Event |
June 2, 2026 | 5 pm | JoSAA begins registration/choice filling for academic programs under JOSAA. Pre-payment of the JoSAA seat acceptance fee and pre-upload of documents. |
June 8, 2026 | 2 pm | Display of Mock Seat Allocation-1 based on choices filled-in by candidates as on June 7 up to 8 pm. |
June 10, 2026 | 1 pm | Display of Mock Seat Allocation-2 based on choices filled-in by candidates as of June 9, up to 5 pm Candidates can lock their choices. |
June 11, 2026 | 5 pm | Candidate registration and choice filling ends (auto/system locking of choices); Pre-payment of seat acceptance fee ends |
June 12, 2026 | Reconciliation of data, verification, and validation by JoSAA | |
June 13, 2026 | 10 am | Round 1 seat allocation |
June 14, 2026 | By 7 pm | Online reporting: fee payment, document upload, response to queries (Round 1) |
June 26, 2026 | Candidate response to queries if required (Round 1) | |
June 26, 2026 | By 5 pm | Last date for fee payment (Round 1) |
June 29, 2026 | By 1 pm | Resolution of fee payment issues for candidates who attempted payment before deadline |
June 29, 2026 | By 5 pm | Last day to respond to queries (Round 1) |
June 30, 2026 | 5 pm | Round 2 seat allocation |
June 30, 2026 | By 5 pm | Online reporting: fee payment, document upload, response (Round 2) |
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