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    Rank Below 2 Lakh In JEE Main? List Of NITs Where You Could Get A Seat

    Rank Below 2 Lakh In JEE Main? List Of NITs Where You Could Get A Seat

    Nidhi AgarwalUpdated on 08 Apr 2024, 05:53 PM IST

    The Joint Entrance Examination Main (JEE Main), conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) for admission in undergraduate engineering programmes does not have any qualifying marks. The cut-off marks announced by the NTA with the JEE Main result are for screening students who will be allowed to appear for JEE Advanced for admission to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT). Therefore, every student who appears for JEE Main, including the ones who have got negative marks in any or all three subjects, is assigned a JEE Main rank. Plus, all students assigned ranks are eligible to participate in the seat allocation process of Joint Seat Allocation Authority, or JoSAA counselling . Screening for admissions is based on the Class 12 qualifying status and the JEE Main rank.

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    Rank Below 2 Lakh In JEE Main? List Of NITs Where You Could Get A Seat
    NIT Puducherry admit BTech students at ranks lower than 2 lakh for one course (Image: Official website)

    This means that a student who has passed Class 12 with the minimum specified marks and who has appeared for JEE Main and secured a rank will be eligible for admissions in the order of their merit, or position on the rank list. This has allowed students with relatively low ranks, such as between two lakh and eight lakh and even below, to secure admission in some of the National Institutes of Technology (NIT). This unique situation is restricted to the NITs where each institute has 50 percent seats reserved for students from the same state in which the NIT is located. This is the home state quota. Here’s a look at the NITs where students with JEE ranks from two lakh to eight lakh and below have secured admissions.

    For this analysis, Careers360 has considered only open category seats in the home state quota.

    NIT Agartala: JEE Main Ranks Below 2 Lakh

    Given below are the ranks at which general category candidates secured admission in NIT Agartala in 2023.

    Counselling Course Name

    Opening Rank

    Closing Rank

    Production Engineering

    198832

    326262

    Chemistry (5 Years BSc-MSc Dual Degree))

    250740

    316556

    Engineering Physics (5 Years BTech-MTech Dual Degree)

    233128

    295549

    Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering

    85416

    287950

    Chemical Engineering

    109154

    280589

    Civil Engineering

    94302

    245373

    Mathematics & Computing (5 Years BSc-MSc Dual Degree))

    154516

    242884

    Physics (5 Years BSc-MSc Dual Degree))

    45913

    237897

    The above table shows that at NIT Agartala, branches like Production Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering (CE) and Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering are not as popular as other branches like Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE), Computer Science Engineering (CSE) or Electrical Engineering(EE).

    The dual degree courses like Engineering Physics and Chemistry also are not as popular as the core branches.

    NIT Meghalaya: JEE Main Ranks Below 2 Lakh

    NIT Meghalaya has seen allotments to JEE Main ranks below 2 lakh but only for home state quota for three out of five branches, including Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE), ECE and CE.

    Counselling Course Name

    Opening Rank

    Closing Rank

    Civil Engineering

    142261

    257202

    Electrical and Electronics Engineering

    138346

    237583

    Electronics and Communication Engineering

    121773

    220988

    CSE and ME are the branches where students under two lakh rank opt for in NIT Meghalaya.

    NIT Sikkim: JEE Main Ranks Below 2 Lakh

    NIT Sikkim admitted students with below two lakhs to all its programmes. In one case, the closing ranking in JoSAA seat allotment dropped to below 10 lakh.

    Counselling Course Name

    Opening Rank

    Closing Rank

    Civil Engineering

    527505

    1005918

    Mechanical Engineering

    311356

    817562

    Electronics and Communication Engineering

    174848

    713531

    Electrical and Electronics Engineering

    251666

    639272

    Computer Science and Engineering

    78672

    405836

    While NIT Sikkim has seen the last seat in Computer Science Engineering, one of the most popular branches, allotted to students with JEE Main ranks around four lakh, other core branches like ME, CE, ECE and EEE have seen allotments to JEE Main ranks below six lakh.

    NIT Mizoram: JEE Main Ranks Below 2 lakh

    The table below shows that the closing rank was below six lakh to 10 lakh for several courses.

    Counselling Course Name

    Opening Rank

    Closing Rank

    Mechanical Engineering

    636017

    1014892

    Mathematics and Computing

    834722

    834722

    Electronics and Communication Engineering

    589620

    809789

    Civil Engineering

    234729

    678406

    Electrical Engineering

    560594

    661107

    Computer Science and Engineering

    284473

    516872


    Seats under the home state quota in NIT Mizoram for all branches including core branches have been allotted to students with JEE Main ranks below 2 lakh. All these courses had their cut-offs dropping to below 2 lakh, even in the first round of JoSAA counselling.

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    NIT Puducherry: JEE Main Ranks Below 2 Lakh

    Just one programme admitted at ranks lower than 2 lakh in NIT Puducherry.

    Counselling Course Name


    Opening Rank


    Closing Rank


    Civil Engineering

    186956

    225349

    The last seat in Civil Engineering at NIT Puducherry in 2023 was allotted to a home state student with a JEE Main rank below 2 lakh. NIT Puducherry is a relatively new NIT compared to NITs in Agartala, Mizoram or Meghalaya.

    NIT Manipur: JEE Main Ranks Below 2 Lakh

    All branches of NIT Manipur admitted students with rank below two lakh. Core branches like ME and EE had students with ranks above four lakhs too.

    Counselling Course Name



    Opening Rank

    Closing Rank


    Electronics and Communication Engineering

    341866

    749669

    Mechanical Engineering

    157954

    667509

    Electrical Engineering

    101231

    407152

    Computer Science and Engineering

    93261

    364827

    Civil Engineering

    97608

    229695

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