CSAB NIT Delhi Cutoff 2026 – There Is No NIT in Delhi

CSAB exists to allot leftover and vacant seats at institutes that are part of the centralized NIT/IIIT/GFTI counselling system, after JoSAA's main rounds conclude. The National Capital Territory of Delhi does not have a National Institute of Technology — the NIT system was rolled out across states that lacked a central technical institute of that stature, and Delhi already had IIT Delhi and strong state universities, so it was never allocated a separate NIT.

As a result, there is no seat matrix, no cutoff rank, and no vacancy count for an "NIT Delhi" in any CSAB round — SR1, SR2, or otherwise. Students who search for this term are almost always looking for one of three real Delhi-based institutes: Delhi Technological University (DTU), Netaji Subhas University of Technology (NSUT), or IIIT-Delhi. None of these three participate in CSAB or JoSAA.

The Real Delhi-Based Alternatives

DTU and NSUT are Delhi state government universities that admit via JEE Main rank, but through their own Joint Admission Counselling (JAC Delhi) process — a completely separate system from JoSAA/CSAB. IIIT-Delhi similarly runs its own centralized admission process based on JEE Main rank. If you want a seat at any of these three, you must register separately with the relevant body; a CSAB choice list has no bearing on admission to them.

If the NIT tag itself matters to you — rather than just a Delhi location — the closest genuine NITs that are part of JoSAA and CSAB are NIT Kurukshetra (Haryana, roughly 160 km from Delhi) and NIT Jalandhar (Punjab). Both admit through JoSAA based on JEE Main rank, with any leftover vacancies handled by CSAB's special rounds.

CSAB 2026 registration closed on August 3, with the SR1 result declared on August 6 and the SR2 result declared on August 12, 2026 — both special rounds are now complete for this cycle. Use our CSAB college predictor to check your realistic options among the institutes that actually exist in the CSAB system.