Articles in JOSAA 2016

The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) recently put up the required percentage of marks for the various educational boards across the country for admission in IITs. Candidates who have either scored top 20 percentile marks or 75% marks in their Class 12 will be eligible to seek admission in the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology […]

The Union HRD Ministry’s tweet on September 20, confirmed that no spot round would be conducted this year to fill up the 1500 vacant seats in NITs. Since August, many students have petitioned in different courts for CSAB (Central Seat Allocation Board) to conduct a spot round, saving the future of those 1500 students who […]

The Joint Seat Allocation process was over on July 20, 2016, with approximately 3,195 seats vacant across 23 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad (ISM), 31 National Institutes of Technology (NITs), 20 Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs), and 18 Government Funded Technical Institutes (GFTIs). The official seat allotment statistics were […]

The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) has declared opening and closing ranks for various undergraduate programs in Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). IIT Madras was ranked No.1 engineering college in India by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) according to a ranking survey conducted in April this year. Following are the opening and closing ranks […]

Despite six rounds of seat allocation conducted by the Joint Seat Allocation Authority 2016 (JoSAA), around 2,700 engineering seats out of the total of 34,781 seats remain vacant. These seats are vacant across 92 centrally funded technical institutes including IITs and NITs. Around 92 seats are vacant in IITs after the conclusion of the final […]

73 seats in Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and 23 seats in Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad (ISM soon to IIT Dhanbad) have been declared vacant by Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA). A total of 10,572 seats were up for grabs in 23 IITs (including ISM) this year. Out of these, 10,476 seats have been […]

After the end of the sixth round of the seat allocation process, around 187 seats in the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) will remain vacant, after the Joint Seat Allocation Authority 2016 (JoSAA) decided not to conduct any special round. Apart from the NITs, around 8 seats are now vacant in the Indian Institutes of […]

The schedule for supernumerary seats has been declared by Central Seat Allocation Board (CSAB). CSAB comes under the Ministry of Human Resource Development. The supernumerary round is for students from Union Territory (UTs) who can apply under the Home State quota at three NITs, namely Durgapur, Calicut and Surat. Students from Andaman & Nicobar Islands […]

IITs have released the following admission schedule which is applicable to those candidates who have accepted seats in undergraduate programs (other than preparatory courses) through JEE (Advanced) 2016. After the seat acceptance process for round 6 is complete by 5 pm on July 20, 2016, students will have to follow the schedule as released on the JoSAA portal for the admission […]

Engineering aspirants who have been allotted a seat in the sixth round can report to their reporting centres (RC) on July 19, 2016 and July 20, 2016 from 10 AM to 5 PM on both the days for their seat acceptance, say JOSAA authorities. However, all those candidates who have accepted seats in the  NITs/IIITs/IIEST/Other-GFTIs […]