How to Apply for Colleges After JEE Main 2025? Process, Counselling & Admission Guide

How to Apply for Colleges After JEE Main 2025? Process, Counselling & Admission Guide

K Guna SahitiUpdated on 21 Aug 2025, 05:38 PM IST

How to apply for colleges after JEE Main? - Students should be thorough with the process of admission after JEE Main. Careers360 has presented the details on how to apply for colleges after JEE Main in this article. Most of the institutions either participate in a common counselling process or conduct a university-level counselling. Aspirants need to register for Joint Seat Allocation Authority for centralized allocation of seats. The authority conducts the JEE Main counselling and seat allotment process as per the schedules. Also, candidates can simply begin applying to individual colleges based on JEE Main results.

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How to Apply for Colleges After JEE Main 2025? Process, Counselling & Admission Guide
How to apply for colleges after JEE Main?

For admission into IITs, candidates have to qualify for JEE Advanced with top ranks. JEE Main is conducted for admissions into NITs, IIITs, and GFTIs and there are other institutes as well that accept JEE Main scores. After the seat allotment, candidates have to report at the allotted institution for further mission process. Read the entire article to know more about applications to colleges after JEE Main and other colleges accepting JEE Main scores.

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1. JoSAA Counselling

Candidates who want to know how to get college after JEE Mains need to follow the JoSAA counselling and seat allotment process. JoSAA counselling schedules will be available on the official website. The authority conducts JoSAA counselling and seat allotment process for JEE Main and Advanced qualified candidates, the college allotted for candidates has to be visited by candidates. The verification of documents takes place at that institute after which, further formalities regarding admission are done. The process followed at these institutes shall include the submission of documents from high school, score cards of JEE Main, and payment of admission fees.

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JEE Main Participating Institutes

There are institutes of national importance like all the National Institutes of Technology (NITs), Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) and Government Funded Technical Institutes (GFTIs). All these institutes are regarded as the JEE Main participating institutes. More than 10 lakh candidates get enrolled for the JEE Main exam for which the qualified ones and top rank holders make it to the participating institutes. Aspirants can get the JEE Main college list rank-wise pdf online.

2. State Engineering Admissions through JEE Main

Several states conduct engineering admissions based on JEE Main scores. Such state admissions through JEE Main may or may not conduct any special entrance exam for B.Tech courses, but consider JEE Main scores. Candidates have to register to participate in the state admission processes. Given below are some of the states accepting JEE Main score:

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Private Colleges Accepting JEE Main Scores

NTA conduct the JEE Main exam for admissions into top institutes like NITS, IITs, and GFTIs. However, many other private colleges accept the JEE Main score. JEE qualifying candidates will have to fill the separate application forms for private institutes through the JEE Main score as per the specific procedure. Some of those private institutes are as follows:

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Q: How to get college after JEE Mains?
A:

Candidates need to complete the JoSAA counselling registration and fill in the choice of colleges and courses. The college will be allotted based on JEE Main rank.

Q: How to get admission after JEE Main?
A:

JEE Main qualified candidates need to participate in the JoSAA counselling process for admission.

Q: Can I take admission through JEE Mains?
A:

Yes. Various government and private colleges accept the JEE Mains score for admission to engineering & technology courses.

Q: Can I apply for IIT after JEE Main?
A:

Candidates who qualify the JEE Main and are among the top 2,50,000 students have to appear for JEE Advanced for admission to IIT.

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Hello aspirant,

With a 90 percentile in JEE Mains and belonging to the EWS category, you have a decent chance for some IIITs, especially newer or lower-ranked ones like IIIT Pune, Nagpur, Vadodara, or Lucknow, or non-CSE branches in better IIITs, but getting top IIITs (like IIIT Hyderabad/Delhi) or core

Hello,

Yes, attendance is compulsory in Class XI and XII.

As per school and board rules, students must maintain minimum attendance, usually around 75%. Schools can stop students from appearing in board exams if attendance is short.

Even if a student is preparing for JEE or any other competitive exam

Hello,

You can find here the direct links to download the JEE Main last 10 years PYQ PDFs from the Official Careers360 website.

Kindly visit this link to access the question papers : Last 10 Years JEE Main Question Papers with Solutions PDF

Hope it helps !

Hello Harika,

Firstly, you cannot prepare for JEE in 8 days if you havent studied before. But still, You can try solving the previous year question papers. Here's a Link for the same

Previous Year Questions

HELLO,

If you are from General category with 57 percent in 12th then to appear for JEE Advanced you need to be in top percentile of your board as the eligibility for JEE advanced you need at least 75 percent in 12th or in the top 20 percentile of your