JEE Mains 2026: How tough is NIT Tiruchirappalli's BTech CSE? Category-wise cut-off trends

Suviral Shukla | January 20, 2026 | 01:22 PM IST | 2 mins read

The lowest cut-off for BTech CSE at NIT Trichy was 8020 for female-only seats, according to last year’s closing rank.

NIT Tiruchirappalli was ranked among the top 10 engineering institutes in the NIRF Ranking 2025. (Image source: Wikimedia Commons)

The Joint Entrance Examination Mains 2026 (JEE Mains) is the gateway for admission to top engineering institutes across the country, including the National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli (NIT). The Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) is the most sought-after course at the technology institute for the past several years, as per trends.

Ranked in the top 10 engineering institute list in the NIRF ranking 2025, the NIT Tiruchirappalli opened and closed its CSE admissions for the Other Backward Classes - Non Creamy Layer (persons with disability) (OBC-NCL (PwD)) at 18 rank.

The lowest cut-off for BTech CSE at NIT Trichy was 8020 for female-only seats, according to last year’s closing rank.

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JoSAA 2026

The JoSAA counselling data also showed that the NIT Triruchirappalli closed admissions to its CSE course at All India Rank of 4569 for home state (HS) open category, gender-neutral candidates.

Moreover, under the other state (OS) quota, the closing rank for open category, gender-neutral candidates for the engineering course stood at 1449, and the female-only other state seats closed at a rank of 2599.

The JoSAA is a government body which conducts counselling for admission to all the NITs, Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIITs), Indian Institute of Technology (IITs), and other colleges.

The admission will be on the basis of AIR obtained by candidates in JEE Main. The JoSAA counselling will be started after the declaration of JEE Advanced 2026 results.

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NIT Tiruchirappalli: CSE cut-offs

Candidates aiming to get admission into the BTech CSE programme at NIT Trichy should get an overview of the opening and closing rank for the last three years.

The table below contains the NIT Trichy cut-offs for the BTech CSE programme over the last three years for each category. The data has been sourced from JoSAA and reflects the final round of counselling.


2025

2024

2023

Category

Opening rank

Closing rank

Opening rank

Closing rank

Opening rank

Closing rank

OPEN

559

4569

10666

29303

22539

28888

OPEN

2040

8020

15479

32237

23908

35114

OPEN (PwD)

250

250

827

827

750

750

OPEN (PwD)

251

251

1710

1710

4639

4862

EWS

1085

4720

4678

5173

5822

6552

EWS

4950

4950

6191

6443

8515

10880

OBC-NCL

1007

1631

7941

11994

11384

14313

OBC-NCL

1918

2301

13035

15906

300

300

SC

358

1081

1360

5985

4029

5409

SC

1012

1219

6241

8427

7006

7660

SC (PwD)

46

46

1400

2170

1277

2144

ST

805

1781

3086

3293

1825

2638

ST

2250

2250





OPEN

659

1449





OPEN

899

2599





OPEN (PwD)

43

43





EWS

177

257





EWS

226

226





OBC-NCL

253

434





OBC-NCL

741

991





OBC-NCL (PwD)

18

18





SC

56

283





SC

269

618





ST

29

64





ST

250

250





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