IIT CSE Cutoff 2026: What JoSAA Round 1 Likely Holds on June 13

The IIT CSE cutoff 2026 becomes a published number at 10 AM on Saturday, June 13, when JoSAA’s Round 1 seat allotment for the IITs drops. Candidate choice-locking ends at 5 PM IST today, June 11, with the mock round 2 allotment released a day earlier. For the 56,880 candidates who qualified JEE Advanced 2026, the closing rank at IIT Bombay is the most-watched number in the first batch.

The verified map candidates get before then is JoSAA’s final round from 2025 and one named forecast. With the JEE Advanced 2026 result declared on June 1 and the 2026 topper coming from the IIT Delhi zone, here is what the closing ranks did last year and where one analyst expects the 2026 IIT CSE cutoffs to land.

Choice-Locking Closes at 5 PM Today

JoSAA’s candidate registration and choice-filling window ends at 5 PM IST on Thursday, June 11, 2026, and the system auto-locks every preference list a candidate has not manually saved at that moment. The JoSAA schedule moves into data reconciliation and verification on Friday, June 12, before the first real seat allocation at 10 AM Saturday. Mock round 2 was released at 1 PM on June 10, based on choices submitted through 5 PM the day before.

JoSAA 2026 has run as a five-round process for IITs and IISc, between June and July 2026, and around 17,000 to 18,000 seats are available across 23 IITs this cycle, the Hindustan Times reported. Candidates who locked a fresh preference list before the mock allotment got a preview of where the IIT CSE cutoff 2026 might land. The final pre-allocation test is the lock at 5 PM IST today.

The Topper Came From the IIT Delhi Zone

Shubham Kumar of the IIT Delhi zone topped JEE Advanced 2026 with 330 out of 360 marks, securing AIR 1 in the Common Rank List. Kabeer Chhillar, also from the IIT Delhi zone, took AIR 2 with 329 marks, and Jatin Chahar, again from the IIT Delhi zone, took AIR 3 with 319 marks, per the JEE Advanced 2026 topper list.

I had been preparing for JEE Advanced for the past two years, and I was hopeful that my hard work would help me secure a good rank. Now that I have secured All India Rank 1, I feel very happy.

Shubham Kumar, the JEE Advanced 2026 topper, told PTI on June 1, 2026, the day his result was declared. Zone of eligibility is not the same as the campus a candidate will attend; it is the region that determines the seat quota a ranker competes in for some seats.

The IIT CSE cutoff 2026 is shaped by the choices of the whole top 100, not just the top one. In 2025, 73 of the top 100 JEE Advanced rankers chose IIT Bombay, with IIT Delhi taking 19 of the top 100 and IIT Madras taking 6, its best share in five years. The same preference order is now playing out in real time as 2026 candidates lock their lists ahead of Saturday’s announcement. The breakdown of where last year’s top 100 rankers chose makes the pattern concrete.

The 2025 IIT CSE Map

The only verified baseline for the IIT CSE cutoff 2026 is JoSAA’s published 2025 final round. The numbers in the table below are the opening and closing JEE Advanced CRL ranks for the BTech Computer Science and Engineering programme, Open category, Gender-Neutral seats, in the final round of JoSAA 2025. They are sourced from JoSAA’s published 2025 data, which the 2025 IIT CSE final round cutoffs archive makes available for trend analysis.

Two patterns stand out. The very top seats barely move between rounds, the same observation JoSAA’s own round-wise data shows. The older IITs at the top of the table sit in a tight band, with the newer IITs spread across a much wider one.

Among the original five IITs, IIT Bombay closed CSE at rank 66, the tightest cutoff in the country. IIT Delhi closed at 126, IIT Madras at 171, IIT Kanpur at 271, and IIT Kharagpur at 466. The IIT Roorkee CSE cutoff was 592, and IIT Guwahati closed at 792. The table reaches the second-generation IITs, where closing ranks stretch into the thousands, with IIT Hyderabad at 673, IIT (BHU) Varanasi at 1,489, and IIT (ISM) Dhanbad at 3,585.

The newer IITs and recently announced campuses occupy the wide tail. IIT Tirupati closed CSE at 5,034, IIT Palakkad at 6,454, IIT Goa at 6,242, IIT Jammu at 6,651, IIT Bhilai at 7,382, and IIT Dharwad at 7,208. The 2024 closing ranks, drawn from the same JoSAA archive, sit in a narrow band around the 2025 figures, with year-on-year shifts mostly in the low double digits at the top of the table.

Where Analysts Expect 2026 to Land

One published 2026 forecast names a CSE range for the three flagship IITs. Careers360’s JoSAA 2026 expected rank range, drawn from the published 2026 IIT CSE rank range, puts IIT Bombay CSE at 1 to 70, IIT Delhi CSE at 25 to 130, and IIT Madras CSE at 80 to 175. The forecast is built on JoSAA’s previous-year trends, not on a published 2026 cutoff.

That range is the closest thing to a public projection candidates can use, and the top of the range tracks 2025 closely. IIT Bombay’s 2025 final closing rank of 66 sits inside the projected 1 to 70 band. IIT Delhi’s 2025 final closing rank of 126 lines up with the upper end of the projected 25 to 130 range. IIT Madras’s 171 final closing rank in 2025 sits four ranks above the projected upper bound of 175, leaving a small margin for 2026 movement.

The forecast is one source’s view, not a JoSAA publication. The Round 1 cutoff on Saturday is a separate number, often a few ranks tighter than the final round’s closing rank, because the first round draws the most committed candidates. JoSAA’s 2025 round-wise data shows IIT Bombay CSE closed at 66 in Round 1 and held at 66 through Round 6.

Why the Top Seats Barely Move

The reason the IIT Bombay CSE cutoff is so stable across rounds is the supply-and-demand ratio behind it. JoSAA’s 2025 round-wise data shows the IIT Bombay CSE closing rank held at 66 from Round 1 through Round 6, with no meaningful relaxation in any subsequent round. Demand is so concentrated at the very top of the table that no candidate vacates a CSE seat to upgrade. The same pattern shows in the topper preference data: 73 of the top 100 JEE Advanced 2025 rankers chose IIT Bombay, an increase from 72 in 2024 and 67 in 2023.

• 56,880 candidates qualified JEE Advanced 2026, the highest in the exam’s history
• 10,107 female qualifiers, 17.77% of the total and an all-time high
• 1,79,694 candidates appeared in both papers 1 and 2 of JEE Advanced 2026
• ~17,000 to 18,000 seats available across 23 IITs for the 2026 cycle
• 5 rounds scheduled for IITs and IISc in JoSAA 2026, down from 6 in 2025

The pattern is not unique to IIT Bombay, but the scale is. IIT Delhi CSE and IIT Madras CSE see more round-to-round movement, but the absolute rank thresholds barely shift year on year. The IIT CSE cutoff 2026 will arrive Saturday with last year’s structure intact: the top IITs’ closing ranks moved in low-double-digit shifts year on year, not multi-hundred-rank swings.

From Saturday Morning Onward

JoSAA’s Round 1 seat allocation result drops at 10 AM on Saturday, June 13. The seat matrix, opening and closing ranks, and category-wise breakdowns go live on the JoSAA portal at the same moment, per the JoSAA 2026 round schedule.

The online reporting window for Round 1 runs from 10 AM on June 13 through 5 PM on June 26. The seat acceptance fee has to be paid by 5 PM on June 26 for the allotment to hold. The last day to respond to any document or query from a reporting center in Round 1 is 5 PM on June 29. Candidates who do not pay the seat acceptance fee and submit their willingness (Freeze, Float, or Slide) by the deadline lose the provisionally allotted seat.

The full JoSAA 2026 schedule walks through Rounds 2 to 5 for IITs and IISc, with the final round’s seat allocation on Thursday, July 16 at 5 PM. The NIT+ system runs an additional partial admission fee window after the IIT/IISc process closes. Counselling for IITs ends with the Round 5 query deadline at 5 PM on Tuesday, July 21, 2026.

1. Round 1 seat allocation: Saturday, June 13, 2026, 10:00 AM IST
2. Round 1 online reporting and fee payment deadline: Friday, June 26, 2026, 5:00 PM IST
3. Round 2 seat allocation: Tuesday, June 30, 2026, 5:00 PM IST
4. Round 4 seat allocation: Friday, July 10, 2026, 5:00 PM IST
5. Round 5 seat allocation (final for IITs/IISc): Thursday, July 16, 2026, 5:00 PM IST; counselling ends Tuesday, July 21, 5:00 PM IST

Frequently Asked Questions

When does JoSAA 2026 release the Round 1 IIT CSE cutoff?

JoSAA publishes the Round 1 seat allocation result at 10 AM IST on Saturday, June 13, 2026. The opening and closing ranks for Computer Science and Engineering at each IIT appear on the JoSAA portal at the same moment, accessible through the candidate login.

Where can candidates check the IIT CSE cutoff 2026?

The official JoSAA portal at josaa.nic.in publishes the opening and closing ranks for every programme, round, institute, and category. The JoSAA admissions portal also carries previous years’ final round cutoffs for trend analysis, including the 2025 data that anchors the 2026 forecast.

How is the IIT CSE cutoff determined?

The cutoff is the highest JEE Advanced CRL rank at which a CSE seat at a given IIT is allotted in a specific round. JoSAA runs a centralised allocation that respects JEE Advanced rank, the candidate’s preference list, the seat matrix, and category-wise reservations. The opening rank is the best rank allotted, and the closing rank is the last rank to receive a seat in that round.

What was the closing rank for IIT Bombay CSE in 2025?

IIT Bombay CSE closed at JEE Advanced CRL rank 66 in the final round of JoSAA 2025, Open category, Gender-Neutral seats. The closing rank was 66 in Round 1 itself, and held at 66 through Round 6. IIT Delhi CSE closed at 126, and IIT Madras CSE closed at 171 in the same category.

How many rounds are there in JoSAA 2026?

The 2026 cycle has five rounds for IITs and IISc, per the published JoSAA schedule. The NIT+ system runs additional steps after the IIT/IISc final round, including a partial admission fee payment window in the days after Round 5 closes.