JEE Main 2026: IIT Delhi closing ranks for top BTech courses under open category

Vaishnavi Shukla | November 9, 2025 | 03:39 PM IST | 2 mins read

JoSAA 2026: EE closing rank rose by 20 points to 605, compared to last year’s 625, and BTech CSE cut-off fell by 10 points from 126 to 116 under the open general category.

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According to the JoSAA 2025 cut-offs, the closing rank for the Electrical Engineering (EE) programme under the open category rose by 20 points to 605, compared to last year’s 625. The BTech CSE closing rank fell by 10 points from 126 to 116 under the open general category. Both CSE and EE were top most opted courses at IIT Delhi this year. JEE Main 2026 live updates

A total of 79 seats were offered for the 4-year BTech CSE programme, with 20 reserved for female candidates. The 5-year BTech CSE programme had 29 seats in total, and 8 were reserved for females.

For the EE programme, 88 seats were available under the gender-neutral category, while 22 seats were for female candidates.

According to the IIT Kanpur’s Joint Implementation Committee (JIC) Report 2025, the first most opted course was Computer Science Engineering (CSE), and the second choice was EE.

A total of 27,697 students opted for CSE, and 23,503 chose EE. The least opted programme was BTech in design , with only 3,173 candidates choosing it.

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IIT Bombay’s CSE closing rank dropped by two points from 68 to 66, showing an increase in cutoffs as compared to last year. The institute offered 159 seats under the gender-neutral category and 39 supernumerary seats exclusively for female candidates.

JEE Main 2026: IIT Delhi closing ranks

The closing ranks at IIT Delhi for various BTech programmes under the open category are as follows.

Courses

Closing ranks

Civil Engineering

Gender neutral - 4302

Female only - 9193

Electrical Engineering

Gender neutral - 605

Female only - 2627

Electrical Engineering (Power and Automation)

Gender neutral - 823

Female only - 2886

Computer Science Engineering

Gender neutral - 126

Female only - 498

Chemical engineering

Gender neutral - 2548

Female only - 5968

Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering

Gender neutral - 4999

Female only - 8927

Mechanical Engineering

Gender neutral - 1862

Female only - 5178

Mathematics and Computing

Gender neutral - 323

Female only - 1234

BTech Design

Gender neutral - 12217

Female only - 23166

Textile Technology

Gender neutral - 5733

Female only - 11158

Engineering physics

Gender neutral - 2565

Female only - 6755

Production and Industrial Engineering

Gender neutral - 3223

Female only - 7617

Chemical Engineering (5-year)

Gender neutral - 3454

Female only - 7561

Mathematics and Computing (5-year)

Gender neutral - 355

Female only - 2258

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has begun the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2026 registration process for the session 1 exam on the official website, jeemain.nta.nic.in. The testing agency will hold JEE Main 2026 session 1 from January 21 to 30 and session 2 from April 2 to 9. NTA has also increased the number of JEE cities from 284 to 323 this year.

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