JoSAA Previous Year Opening & Closing Ranks
2023 · 2024 · 2025 Cutoff Trends · IIT, NIT, IIIT · Use for 2026 Choice Filling
Why Use Previous Year Data?
Previous year JoSAA opening and closing ranks are the best predictor of 2026 cutoffs. Use 3-year trends to identify whether a branch is getting more or less competitive. This data directly informs your choice filling strategy.
A single year's closing rank can be misleading on its own because it reflects that particular year's unique mix of exam difficulty, candidate pool size, and seat availability — all of which vary from cycle to cycle. Looking at a 3-year trend instead helps separate genuine, sustained shifts in demand for a branch or institute from ordinary year-to-year noise. For example, a branch whose closing rank has climbed steadily across 2023, 2024, and 2025 is very likely becoming more competitive due to structural reasons (rising popularity of that field, growing placement reputation, or increased overall demand), whereas a branch whose closing rank has bounced up and down without a clear direction is probably just experiencing normal statistical variation and should be read with a wider safety margin.
This multi-year approach becomes especially important when planning a JoSAA 2026 choice list, since it lets you distinguish between institute-branch combinations you can target with reasonable confidence and combinations where the historical data itself is too volatile to rely on heavily. Combining this trend analysis with the current year's seat matrix (checking whether that specific institute or branch has added or reduced seats) gives a much more complete picture than looking at any single number in isolation.
2025
Most recent — highest relevance
2024
Second most relevant
2023
Longer trend indicator
IIT CSE Opening & Closing Ranks – 3 Year Trend
JEE Advanced General category, All India quota. Final round closing ranks (Round 6 for 2023–2025).
| Institute | Branch | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OR | CR | OR | CR | OR | CR | ||
| IIT Bombay | CSE | 1 | 67 | 1 | 63 | 1 | 71 |
| IIT Delhi | CSE | 1 | 98 | 1 | 97 | 1 | 102 |
| IIT Madras | CSE | 2 | 128 | 2 | 125 | 2 | 131 |
| IIT Kanpur | CSE | 4 | 198 | 4 | 196 | 3 | 199 |
| IIT Kharagpur | CSE | 6 | 284 | 7 | 280 | 5 | 291 |
| IIT Roorkee | CSE | 22 | 391 | 19 | 382 | 18 | 397 |
OR = Opening Rank, CR = Closing Rank. Data sourced from josaa.nic.in official archives.
Top NIT CSE Opening & Closing Ranks – 3 Year Trend
JEE Main General category, Home State (HS) quota. Final round closing ranks (Round 6 for 2023–2025).
| Institute | Branch | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OR | CR | OR | CR | OR | CR | ||
| NIT Trichy | CSE (HS) | 849 | 2,847 | 823 | 2,801 | 867 | 2,902 |
| NIT Warangal | CSE (HS) | 721 | 3,187 | 698 | 3,102 | 743 | 3,241 |
| NIT Surathkal | CSE (HS) | 1,247 | 4,502 | 1,189 | 4,387 | 1,301 | 4,598 |
| NIT Calicut | CSE (HS) | 1,891 | 6,231 | 1,823 | 5,987 | 1,967 | 6,389 |
| NIT Rourkela | CSE (HS) | 2,341 | 7,824 | 2,298 | 7,611 | 2,389 | 7,941 |
How IIT and NIT Rank Trends Differ
Looking at the IIT and NIT trend tables side by side reveals an important structural difference between the two systems. IIT ranks refer to JEE Advanced ranks, which are drawn from a smaller, pre-qualified pool of candidates (only those who clear the JEE Main cutoff to become eligible for JEE Advanced), so the closing ranks for top branches at top IITs tend to be relatively stable year over year, moving by only single or low double digits at the very top of the table. NIT ranks, on the other hand, are based on JEE Main ranks across a much larger and more variable candidate pool, and NIT closing ranks are further split by home-state and other-state quotas, which introduces more year-to-year movement, particularly for home-state quota numbers that depend heavily on how many strong candidates from that specific state apply in a given year.
This is why NIT home-state cutoffs, like those shown for NIT Trichy, Warangal, Surathkal, Calicut, and Rourkela above, can swing by several hundred ranks between years even for the same branch, while the equivalent IIT CSE closing ranks barely move. When comparing your own rank against these tables, factor in whether you're looking at IIT-type stability or NIT-type variability, and apply a correspondingly wider or narrower safety margin depending on which category the institute falls into.
JoSAA 2027: complete guide
Dates, eligibility, pattern, syllabus, result and counselling in one place.
1Why is previous year JoSAA data important for 2026?
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3Where can I find official JoSAA previous year opening and closing ranks?
4How much can JoSAA cutoffs fluctuate year to year?
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