WBJEE 2026 Spot Round

WBJEEB's centralized, rank-based counselling for WBJEE concludes in three stages — Round 1, Round 2, and the Mop-Up round (Round 3), whose allotment result was declared July 28, 2026. Once the Mop-Up round's reporting deadline passes, any seats still lying vacant are no longer processed through the common wbjeeb.nic.in portal. Instead, individual colleges — overwhelmingly private engineering institutes affiliated to MAKAUT (Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology) — take over and conduct what is commonly called a spot round or walk-in admission.

Because this stage is decentralized, there is no single common notification, timeline, or portal to track. Each college independently decides when to open its spot round, publishes its own vacant-seat list (often branch-wise), and sets its own walk-in dates. This makes the spot round fundamentally different in character from the three preceding centralized rounds, where a common algorithm and timeline applied uniformly across all participating institutes.

Government and government-aided colleges — Jadavpur University, IIEST Shibpur, and the handful of state-run engineering colleges — almost never reach the spot-round stage, since their seats are fully subscribed well before the Mop-Up round ends. Spot rounds are therefore concentrated almost entirely among private self-financing colleges, particularly for branches that historically see lower demand.

Candidates approaching the spot round should treat it differently from earlier rounds: rather than waiting for a portal notification, the practical approach is to shortlist a set of MAKAUT-affiliated colleges where Mop-Up round vacancies were visibly high, then contact their admission offices directly — by phone, email, or an in-person visit — to ask about spot-round timing and seat availability.