IIIT Cutoff Analysis 2026: The Ranks, and How Far They Move

By Sampath Kumar · Updated 9 Sept 2026

The IIITs are the part of the JoSAA system students research least and misjudge most. Computed from JoSAA's own 2026 result, here is where their ranks actually sit — and why waiting for a later round matters more here than anywhere else.

Where each category actually reaches

Round 5, gender-neutral seats. Each row is that category’s own rank scale, so read down a row, never across one. “Best” is the single hardest seat in the whole IIIT system for that category; “median” is the midpoint of every branch.

Every IIIT seat is All India

Worth stating plainly, because students assume otherwise: in JoSAA 2026 every single IIIT seat was allotted under the All India quota. There is no home-state reservation at any IIIT, unlike the NITs where roughly half the seats are held for the institute’s own state. Your domicile buys you nothing here, so pick an IIIT on the branch and the campus rather than on how close it is to home.

Female-only seats, measured

The IIITs create supernumerary seats for women on top of the sanctioned intake. Same branch, same category, same round — another clean same-scale comparison. Across 459 matched pairs the female-only closing rank is a median 1.20× looser than the gender-neutral one.

How much Round 1 to Round 5 actually moves

Across 1,295 branch-category-quota combinations that appear in both rounds, the IIIT closing rank loosens by a median of 15.0% between Round 1 and Round 5.

That is a real shift. Seats genuinely open up here in the later rounds, which is why withdrawing early or skipping the remaining rounds costs IIIT candidates more than it costs IIT candidates.

Round by round, so you can see where in the schedule the movement actually happens rather than assuming it is spread evenly:

Nearly all of it lands in one place: Round 1 to Round 2 (+8.9%). After that the median closing rank barely shifts at all. So the round boundary worth staying in for is that one — the later rounds are mostly about seats being confirmed, not about the bar dropping.

The hardest seats in the IIIT system

OPEN category, gender-neutral, Round 5 — common rank list, so these are directly comparable with each other.

And the most reachable

The same list from the other end. These are where an OPEN-category candidate with a modest rank still has a real chance.

Campuses

Campus photographs published by the institutes themselves, on their own websites. 4 of the 24 IIITs on this page publish one that is a photograph of the campus rather than an event or a poster; the rest are not shown because nothing verifiable was available.

Frequently asked questions

Source and method

Every number on this page is computed from the Joint Seat Allocation Authority’s own 2026 opening and closing rank file — Rounds 1 to 5, all institutes, branches, quotas, categories and gender pools — published at josaa.nic.in. Medians are taken over matched pairs, so a comparison only counts where both sides of it exist in the same round. Ranks are a record of what happened in 2026 and are not a promise about 2027; JoSAA republishes the file every session. Confirm anything you are about to act on against the official portal.

Related guides:
Central Government Institutes · IIT Cutoff Analysis · NIT Cutoff Analysis · All IITs, NITs & IIMs + Quota Rules