CSAB Cut-Off Analysis: Previous Year’s Highest Closing Ranks in NITs, IIITs & GFTIs

CSAB 2025 NITs Highest Closing Rank (Home State)

This table shows the highest closing ranks for the CSAB 2025 across the NITs in the Northeast under Home State Quota. During CSAB counseling, the Home State quota still offers admission chances in reputed NITs. Admissions at somewhat higher Common Rank List (CRL) positions were observed at several Northeastern NITs. Home state quota students having rank around these ranges can consider all the above-displayed branches across NITs while preparing their preference list during CSAB Counselling 2026.

CSAB 2025 NITs Highest Closing Rank (Outside State)

The category-wise CSAB 2025 closing ranks across NITs under the Outside State quota are presented in the above table. Students can consider NIT Agartala for BS-MS dual degree programmes in chemistry and physics through CSAB 2026.

CSAB 2025 NITs Highest Closing Rank (Home State) Without North-East

This table shows the NITs under the home state quota excluding the Northeastern colleges. Students from their respective home states across various categories can get admission to the CSE, Civil, Mechanical, and Engineering Physics branches at these NITs that are not in the northeast. Check out the above table to know the highest estimated closing ranks for getting admission in these branches at NITs during CSAB.

CSAB 2025 NITs Highest Closing Rank (Outside State) Without Northeast

This is the highest closing rank for targeting Biotechnology and Biomedical engineering at NITs excluding Northeast institutions under outside state quota through CSAB Special Rounds.

CSAB NIT Srinagar Highest Closing Rank 2025 Home State

The following table represents the highest closing ranks during CSAB 2025 specifically for NIT Srinagar under the home state quota and outside home state quota.

CSAB NIT Srinagar Highest Closing Rank 2025 Outside State

CSAB IIITs Highest Closing Rank 2025

This table is highlighting the highest closing ranks across various categories at all IIITs. IIIT Manipur exhibits the highest closing rank across all categories and students during CSAB 2026 counselling can target ECE with Specialization in VLSI and Embedded Systems at IIIT Manipur.

CSAB 2026 Vacant Seats Analysis

CSAB IIITs Highest Cutoff 2025 Without Northeast

This table highlights the closing ranks for IIITs excluding those IIITs that are located in the Northeastern part of India. Among the IIITs that are not located in Northeast, IIIT Bhagalpur witnessed the highest closing ranks across all categories for securing a seat in Mechatronics and Automation Engineering during CSAB Counselling 2026.

3 Design IIITs - ALL India Max Closing Rank 2025 (CSAB)

CSAB 2025 GFTIs Highest Closing Rank 2025

This table represents the highest closing ranks based on CSAB 2025 for the Open Category to target the Design and Manufacturing specialised IIITs in CSAB 2026 counselling rounds. Open category students interested in the B.Tech courses related to smart manufacturing, design manufacturing and integrated mechanical engineering can check out the table above for an idea of closing ranks in Design focused IIITs.

This table is showcasing the category-wise highest closing ranks across GFTIs based on the CSAB 2025 data. Students can refer to the table above to understand the expected closing ranks for carpet and textile engineering, food engineering and technology, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering for admission in GFTIs during CSAB Counseling 2026.

CSAB Counselling 2026: Important Points that Students Should Keep in Mind

CSAB 2026 special rounds are the last chance for students to secure an engineering seat in the participating institutions. However, CSAB 2026 Cutoffs will depend on the seats left vacant after the JoSAA counselling final round, branch preferences and number of students participating in the CSAB Counselling 2026. A prior strategy for choice filling can help you in securing admission in the selection process.

• Home-State quota students have better admission opportunities, so don’t miss out on the home state institutions while preparing your preference list for the CSAB 2026.

• Don’t ignore IIITs and GFTIs. Most students prefer NITs over IIITs and GFTIs but these are also leading engineering institutions that offer excellent quality education. Students missing NITs opportunities can also target IIITs and GFTIs through CSAB Counselling 2026.

• As the CSAB Cutoff 2026 is not officially announced, analysing CSAB 2025 cutoff data at this point of time will help students in understanding their admission chances in CSAB 2026. So consider last year's CSAB cutoff data as a reference for predicting your admission chances this year.

• Instead of just filling limited or few colleges or branches, try to fill the maximum choices of colleges or branches for a high chance of seat allotment.

CSAB 2026 Reservation: Category-Wise

CSAB Special Rounds use the JEE Main All India Common Rank List (CRL) for merit, not the category rank. However, students will get the reservation benefits as per their category because the seat is allocated as per the reservation rules of GoI (Government of India).

CSAB Seat Allocation: CRL Rank & Reservation

Why Should Students Participate in CSAB Counselling?

Thousands of seats remain unfilled after the JoSAA counselling process, which are filled through CSAB counselling rounds. Last year, a total of 13,727 seats were vacant across leading institutions. This year, we are also expecting that a large number of seats will be available for allotment, and CSAB is the finally key pathway to secure the CSAB vacant seats 2026 across NITs, IIITs, IIEST Shibpur, and GFTIs.

CSAB Vacant Seats 2025