How Many IIT Seats Are Reserved for OBC?- JoSAA announces the IIT Seats in India for the OBC Category on the official website, josaa.nic.in. The IIT Seats for OBC Candidates include the total seats available for OBC candidates across all IITs. Candidates participating in the JoSAA 2026 counselling must be aware of the total seats for the OBC Category. The total seats available for OBC Candidates is 4,289. The JoSAA cutoff for OBC will differ from the general category cutoffs. The seat allotment will be based on the available seats and the candidate's JEE Advanced 2026 result. Candidates can check the total seats available for OBC here.
The JoSAA 2026 Seat matrix will be updated here when released. The institute-wise OBC Seat matrix based on the previous year data is mentioned below.
OBC Seat matrix - IIT Bhubaneswar
OBC Seat matrix - IIT Bombay
Course | Total OBC-NCL Seats |
Aerospace Engineering | 19 |
Chemical Engineering | 33 |
Civil Engineering | 37 |
Environmental Science and Engineering | 11 |
Computer Science and Engineering | 51 |
Electrical Engineering | 29 |
Engineering Physics | 14 |
Mechanical Engineering | 52 |
Metallurgical Engg & Materials Science | 26 |
Industrial Engg and Operations Research | 10 |
Energy Engineering | 12 |
Chemistry | 9 |
Economics | 11 |
BS in Mathematics | 4 |
Applied Geophysics | 7 |
Electrical Engg (Dual Degree) | 22 |
OBC Seat matrix - IIT Mandi
Course | Total OBC-NCL Seats |
Civil Engineering | 13 |
General Engineering | 8 |
Computer Science and Engineering | 20 |
Electrical Engineering | 17 |
Engineering Physics | 8 |
Materials Science and Engineering | 7 |
Microelectronics & VLSI | 7 |
Mathematics and Computing | 8 |
Mechanical Engineering | 15 |
Bio Engineering | 7 |
Data Science and Artificial Intelligence | 14 |
Chemical Sciences (BS) | 8 |
OBC Seat matrix - IIT Delhi
Course | Total OBC-NCL Seats |
Biotechnology & Biochemical Engineering | 15 |
Chemical Engineering | 19 |
Civil Engineering | 28 |
Computer Science and Engineering | 25 |
Electrical Engineering | 28 |
Electrical Engineering (Power & Automation) | 14 |
Engineering Physics | 18 |
Mathematics and Computing | 22 |
Mechanical Engineering | 22 |
Design | 5 |
Production and Industrial Engineering | 22 |
Textile Technology | 21 |
Engineering and Computational Mechanics | 11 |
Materials Engineering | 11 |
Energy Engineering | 11 |
Chemistry | 10 |
OBC Seat matrix -IIT Indore
Course | Total OBC-NCL Seats |
Chemical Engineering | 10 |
Civil Engineering | 13 |
Computer Science and Engineering | 21 |
Electrical Engineering | 22 |
Engineering Physics | 6 |
Mathematics and Computing | 10 |
Mechanical Engineering | 23 |
Metallurgical Engg and Materials Science | 13 |
Space Science and Engineering | 5 |
OBC Seat matrix - IIT Kharagpur
Course | Total OBC-NCL Seats |
Aerospace Engineering | 18 |
Agricultural and Food Engineering | 24 |
Biotechnology & Biochemical Engineering | 18 |
Chemical Engineering | 29 |
Civil Engineering | 31 |
Computer Science and Engineering | 37 |
Electrical Engineering | 30 |
Electronics and Electrical Communication Engg | 39 |
Instrumentation Engineering | 11 |
Manufacturing Science and Engineering | 17 |
Mechanical Engineering | 44 |
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering | 24 |
Mining Engineering | 29 |
Ocean Engg and Naval Architecture | 21 |
Industrial and Systems Engineering | 18 |
Artificial Intelligence | 13 |
Chemistry | 11 |
Economics | 15 |
Physics | 12 |
Mathematics and Computing | 18 |
Applied Geology | 13 |
Exploration Geophysics | 11 |
Architecture | 10 |
OBC Seat matrix - IIT Hyderabad
Course | Total OBC-NCL Seats |
Chemical Engineering | 12 |
Civil Engineering | 15 |
Computational Engineering | 8 |
Industrial Chemistry | 7 |
Electrical Engineering (IC Design & Technology) | 7 |
Computer Science and Engineering | 17 |
Electrical Engineering | 18 |
Engineering Physics | 10 |
Engineering Science | 11 |
Mathematics and Computing | 7 |
Mechanical Engineering | 16 |
Materials Science and Metallurgical Engg | 9 |
Artificial Intelligence | 10 |
Biomedical Engineering | 7 |
Biotechnology and Bioinformatics | 8 |
OBC Seat matrix - IIT Jodhpur
Course | Total OBC-NCL Seats |
Chemical Engineering | 12 |
Computer Science and Engineering | 20 |
Electrical Engineering | 14 |
Electronics Engineering | 12 |
Mechanical Engineering | 24 |
Civil and Infrastructure Engineering | 16 |
Bio Engineering | 13 |
Artificial Intelligence and Data Science | 18 |
Materials Engineering | 12 |
Physics with Specialization | 6 |
Chemistry with Specialization | 6 |
OBC Seat matrix - IIT Kanpur
Course | Total OBC-NCL Seats |
Aerospace Engineering | 18 |
Biological Sciences and Bioengineering | 13 |
Chemical Engineering | 27 |
Civil Engineering | 38 |
Computer Science and Engineering | 34 |
Electrical Engineering | 49 |
Materials Science and Engineering | 22 |
Mechanical Engineering | 38 |
Chemistry | 13 |
Economics | 13 |
Mathematics and Scientific Computing | 17 |
Physics | 11 |
Earth Sciences | 11 |
Statistics and Data Science | 8 |
OBC Seat matrix - IIT Gandhinagar
Course | Total OBC-NCL Seats |
Chemical Engineering | 13 |
Civil Engineering | 10 |
Computer Science and Engineering | 16 |
Electrical Engineering | 12 |
Mechanical Engineering | 12 |
Integrated Circuit Design & Technology | 7 |
Artificial Intelligence | 11 |
Materials Engineering | 11 |
OBC Seat matrix - IIT Patna
Course | Total OBC-NCL Seats |
Chemical Engineering | 18 |
Chemical Science and Technology | 11 |
Civil Engineering | 18 |
Computer Science and Engineering | 22 |
Electronics and Communication Engineering | 13 |
Engineering Physics | 11 |
Mathematics and Computing | 13 |
Mechanical Engineering | 22 |
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering | 12 |
Electrical and Electronics Engineering | 13 |
Artificial Intelligence and Data Science | 13 |
Economics | 6 |
B.Tech (ECE) + M.Tech Comm. Systems | 2 |
B.Tech (Chem. Sci. & Tech.) + MBA Health | 1 |
B.Tech (Civil Engg) + MBA | 2 |
B.Tech (CSE) + MBA Digital Business | 1 |
B.Tech (ECE) + MBA Healthcare | 1 |
B.Tech (Engg Physics) + MBA | 2 |
B.Tech (Maths & Comp.) + MBA Digital | 2 |
B.Tech (Metallurgical Engg) + MBA | 1 |
B.Tech (EEE) + MBA | 1 |
B.Tech (AI & DS) + MBA Digital | 2 |
B.Tech (Chem. Engg) + MBA Health | 2 |
B.Tech (Mech. Engg) + MBA | 4 |
B.Tech (Civil Engg) + M.Tech Geotech | 3 |
B.Tech (Civil Engg) + M.Tech Structural | 3 |
B.Tech (CSE) + M.Tech CSE | 2 |
B.Tech (ECE) + M.Tech VLSI | 3 |
B.Tech (EEE) + M.Tech Power & Control | 3 |
B.Tech (Maths & Comp.) + M.Tech Maths & Comp. | 3 |
B.Tech (Mech. Engg) + M.Tech Mechatronics | 3 |
OBC Seat matrix -IIT Roorkee
Course | Total OBC-NCL Seats |
Chemical Engineering | 30 |
Civil Engineering | 38 |
Computer Science and Engineering | 28 |
Electrical Engineering | 41 |
Electronics and Communication Engineering | 27 |
Engineering Physics | 14 |
Mechanical Engineering | 37 |
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering | 22 |
Production and Industrial Engineering | 16 |
Data Science and Artificial Intelligence | 10 |
Biosciences and Bioengineering | 13 |
Energy Engineering | 4 |
Architecture | 9 |
Geological Technology | 10 |
Geophysical Technology | 10 |
Physics (Dual Degree) | 8 |
Mathematics & Computing (Dual Degree) | 13 |
Chemical Sciences (Dual Degree) | 9 |
Economics (Dual Degree) | 8 |
OBC Seat matrix - IIT (ISM) Dhanbad
Course | Total OBC-NCL Seats |
Chemical Engineering | 14 |
Civil Engineering | 18 |
Computer Science and Engineering | 34 |
Electrical Engineering | 31 |
Electronics and Communication Engineering | 31 |
Engineering Physics | 8 |
Environmental Engineering | 12 |
Mathematics and Computing | 14 |
Mechanical Engineering | 33 |
Mining Engineering | 25 |
Mining Machinery Engineering | 15 |
Petroleum Engineering | 24 |
Mineral and Metallurgical Engineering | 11 |
Applied Geology (Dual Degree) | 6 |
Applied Geophysics | 6 |
Mining Engg + MBA | 16 |
Physical Science | 7 |
Chemical Science | 7 |
OBC Seat matrix -IIT Ropar
Course | Total OBC-NCL Seats |
Chemical Engineering | 8 |
Civil Engineering | 9 |
Computer Science and Engineering | 30 |
Electrical Engineering | 30 |
Engineering Physics | 5 |
Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering | 21 |
Mathematics and Computing | 21 |
Mechanical Engineering | 21 |
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering | 8 |
Digital Agriculture | 6 |
Electrical Engineering (ICDT) | 6 |
OBC Seat matrix -IIT (BHU) Varanasi
Course | Total OBC-NCL Seats |
Ceramic Engineering | 20 |
Chemical Engineering | 43 |
Civil Engineering | 40 |
Industrial Chemistry | 7 |
Computer Science and Engineering | 38 |
Electrical Engineering | 38 |
Electronics Engineering | 41 |
Engineering Physics | 11 |
Mathematics and Computing | 17 |
Mechanical Engineering | 48 |
Metallurgical Engineering | 29 |
Biochemical Engineering | 6 |
Bioengineering | 5 |
Materials Science and Technology | 8 |
Mining Engineering | 33 |
Pharmaceutical Engineering & Technology | 19 |
Architecture | 8 |
OBC Seat matrix -IIT Guwahati
Course | Total OBC-NCL Seats |
Chemical Engineering | 24 |
Chemical Science and Technology | 17 |
Civil Engineering | 30 |
Computer Science and Engineering | 29 |
Electronics and Communication Engineering | 27 |
Electronics and Electrical Engineering | 13 |
Engineering Physics | 18 |
Mathematics and Computing | 18 |
Mechanical Engineering | 31 |
Data Science and Artificial Intelligence | 12 |
Biosciences and Bioengineering | 18 |
Energy Engineering | 4 |
OBC Seat matrix -IIT Palakkad
Course | Total OBC-NCL Seats |
Civil Engineering | 11 |
Computer Science and Engineering | 9 |
Electrical Engineering | 11 |
Mechanical Engineering | 10 |
Data Science and Engineering | 10 |
OBC Seat matrix -IIT Tirupati
Course | Total OBC-NCL Seats |
Chemical Engineering | 10 |
Civil Engineering | 10 |
Computer Science and Engineering | 13 |
Electrical Engineering | 14 |
Engineering Physics | 2 |
Mechanical Engineering | 14 |
OBC Seat matrix -IIT Bhilai
Course | Total OBC-NCL Seats |
Computer Science and Engineering | 15 |
Electrical Engineering | 16 |
Electronics and Communication Engineering | 11 |
Mechanical Engineering | 15 |
Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering | 7 |
Mechatronics Engineering | 6 |
Data Science and Artificial Intelligence | 9 |
OBC Seat matrix -IIT Dharwad
Course | Total OBC-NCL Seats |
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering | 7 |
Computer Science and Engineering | 17 |
Electronics and Communication Engineering | 11 |
Engineering Physics | 8 |
Mathematics and Computing | 7 |
Mechanical Engineering | 16 |
Civil and Infrastructure Engineering | 6 |
Electrical and Electronics Engineering | 6 |
Interdisciplinary Sciences (Dual Degree) | 14 |
OBC Seat matrix -IIT Jammu
Course | Total OBC-NCL Seats |
Chemical Engineering | 10 |
Civil Engineering | 10 |
Computer Science and Engineering | 10 |
Electrical Engineering | 11 |
Engineering Physics | 7 |
Mathematics and Computing | 10 |
Mechanical Engineering | 8 |
Materials Engineering | 9 |
OBC Seat matrix -IIT Goa
Course | Total OBC-NCL Seats |
Computer Science and Engineering | 11 |
Electrical Engineering | 11 |
Mathematics and Computing | 8 |
Mechanical Engineering | 11 |
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
No, the authority is yet to release the JoSAA IIT OBC seat matrix 2026 online.
IIT Bombay offers the highest number of OBC-NCL seats in Computer Science and Engineering with 51 seats.
The number of seats for OBC-NCL candidates varies by institute and program. For example, IIT Bombay Computer Science and Engineering has 51 OBC-NCL seats, while IIT Delhi Computer Science has 25 OBC-NCL seats.
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