HSTES Haryana College Predictor 2026 – Institute & Cutoff Guide

HSTES (Haryana State Technical Education Society) runs centralized counselling for diploma engineering and lateral-entry B.Tech admissions at government and private polytechnic and engineering institutes located across Haryana — including districts like Hisar, Karnal, Faridabad, Panchkula, and others. Admissions follow an online choice-filling and merit-based seat allotment system run across multiple rounds.

There's no official predictor tool from HSTES — candidates compare their merit position to previous years' institute-wise, branch-wise closing figures published after each round to gauge their chances honestly.

Cutoff trends across Haryana's HSTES-affiliated institutes generally follow these patterns:

• Government polytechnics close at the best (lowest) merit positions due to high demand and lower fees.
• Government-aided institutes follow closely behind government colleges.
• Private self-financed institutes have comparatively relaxed cutoffs, often accepting candidates across a wide merit range.
• Branch-wise, ECE and CSE/IT consistently close earlier than core branches like Civil and Mechanical at the same institute.

Reserved categories (SC, BC-A, BC-B, EWS) maintain separate, more relaxed cutoffs per Haryana state policy, and domicile status can further affect eligibility for certain seats.

For general HSTES admission process details, see our HSTES College Predictor 2026 guide. If you're a Class 12 student with a JEE Main rank targeting regular first-year B.Tech at NITs, IIITs or GFTIs, our JEE Main College Predictor uses real multi-year JoSAA cutoff data — read how accurate these predictions really are before relying on its output.