IIIT CSE cutoffs 2026: from 8,888 at ABV-IIITM Gwalior to 59,813 at Manipur

In JoSAA 2026, B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering at ABV-IIITM Gwalior closed at a JEE Main CRL of 8,888 for OPEN seats. At the other end, IIIT Manipur closed at 59,813. Across the 24 IIITs that offer this program, the typical closing rank was 34,188.

A later closing rank means the seat was easier to get. So in 2026, half of these IIITs still filled CSE seats at a CRL of 34,188 or later in their last round.

The IIITs in JoSAA

Our JoSAA 2026 data lists 26 Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) in 18 states and union territories, offering 130 programs between them. They admit through JEE Main, alongside the NITs and other government-funded institutes (GFTIs).

Two things set IIITs apart from NITs in counselling:

• All India quota only. In our data every IIIT seat is in the All India (AI) quota. NITs also have Home State and Other State quotas; IIITs do not, so every candidate competes on the same CRL.
• Many computing programs. Besides CSE, IIITs offer Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Cyber Security and Mathematics and Computing programs. This guide compares only the plain B.Tech CSE so that each institute appears once.

How we compared

• Seats: the four-year B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering. 24 of the 26 IIITs offer it.
• Seat pool: All India quota, OPEN category, gender-neutral. These seats are ranked by the JEE Main Common Rank List (CRL).
• Closing rank: the latest closing rank over all JoSAA rounds of the year. In 2026 this is the Round 5 rank for every IIIT here.
• Change: 2026 against 2024, using the same seat pool.

CSE at all 24 IIITs, ranked by 2026 closing rank

#	Institute	State	AI OPEN seats (2026)	2024	2025	2026	Change since 2024
1	ABV-IIITM Gwalior	Madhya Pradesh	32	8,044	9,527	8,888	+10%
2	IIITDM Jabalpur	Madhya Pradesh	84	14,757	14,787	15,371	+4%
3	IIITDM Kancheepuram	Tamil Nadu	26	18,654	19,069	20,654	+11%
4	IIIT Pune	Maharashtra	100	18,252	21,029	21,116	+16%
5	IIIT Sri City	Andhra Pradesh	87	26,444	26,387	23,052	-13%
6	IIIT Guwahati	Assam	53	20,821	22,739	25,246	+21%
7	IIIT Tiruchirappalli	Tamil Nadu	19	29,303	28,335	27,913	-5%
8	IIIT Nagpur	Maharashtra	94	27,356	29,123	29,369	+7%
9	IIIT Bhopal	Madhya Pradesh	111	23,999	27,095	30,996	+29%
10	IIIT Kota	Rajasthan	55	24,416	27,400	31,149	+28%
11	IIIT Surat	Gujarat	48	25,108	28,707	31,604	+26%
12	IIIT Vadodara	Gujarat	77	21,838	24,840	31,686	+45%
13	IIIT Una	Himachal Pradesh	58	28,335	33,468	36,689	+29%
14	IIITDM Kurnool	Andhra Pradesh	22	32,761	33,147	37,282	+14%
15	IIIT Sonepat	Haryana	47	28,994	32,506	37,632	+30%
16	IIIT Ranchi	Jharkhand	47	32,429	38,063	43,556	+34%
17	IIIT Kottayam	Kerala	123	35,996	40,217	43,688	+21%
18	IIIT Raichur	Karnataka	24	34,282	36,760	43,701	+27%
19	IIIT Dharwad	Karnataka	75	37,419	41,121	45,308	+21%
20	IIIT Vadodara (Diu Campus)	Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	34	32,396	39,231	46,054	+42%
21	IIIT Kalyani	West Bengal	45	39,991	44,154	47,762	+19%
22	IIIT Bhagalpur	Bihar	58	39,481	44,476	48,416	+23%
23	IIIT Agartala	Tripura	30	39,356	44,304	50,027	+27%
24	IIIT Manipur	Manipur	45	50,509	58,080	59,813	+18%

Five IIITs closed CSE within the top 25,000, and nine closed after 40,000. The typical IIIT closed 21% later than in 2024. IIIT Vadodara moved most, from 21,838 to 31,686.

For comparison, the median 2026 closing rank for CSE at the NITs (Other State, OPEN, gender-neutral) was 13,930. Both are JEE Main CRL figures. Our NIT CSE ladder lists every NIT.

IIIT Allahabad and IIIT Lucknow

These two IIITs have no program named exactly Computer Science and Engineering, so they are not in the table. Their closest programs closed early:

• IIIT Allahabad, B.Tech Information Technology: 74 AI OPEN seats, closed at 5,420 in 2026 (5,202 in 2024). Its Information Technology-Business Informatics program closed even earlier, at 4,969.
• IIIT Lucknow, B.Tech Computer Science: 18 AI OPEN seats, closed at 9,175 in 2026 (9,824 in 2024).

The live table below shows the IIIT computing seats that closed earliest in the last JoSAA round, across all program names.

What it means for JoSAA 2027

• Fees are not in this guide. Our institute fee data is not yet checked against official documents, so look up fees on each institute's own website.
• Use closing ranks as a guide, not a promise. 22 of the 24 IIITs closed CSE later in 2026 than in 2024, but two closed earlier, and the trend can change.
• Check your own rank. Our rank tool and the cutoff explorer show every JoSAA seat you could have got in 2026.

All ranks here are JEE Main 2026 CRL closing ranks from JoSAA. A later closing rank means the seat was easier to get.