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Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor of Technology · 4-year programme

Bachelor of Technology

4 years

72 colleges

Last updated JoSAA 2025 · By Divyansh Agarwal

About Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering is offered through JoSAA counselling at 72 centrally funded Indian institutes. Admission is merit-based — IIT seats are allocated from the JEE Advanced rank list; NIT, IIIT, and GFTI seats use JEE Main. Every institute below takes the branch through the Bachelor of Technology, 4-year programme.

The table shows the latest JoSAA counselling year's Open category, Gender-Neutral closing rank for each institute offering this branch, sorted by how competitive the cutoff is. Click any institute name to see its full branch list, NIRF history, and other branches on offer.

Colleges offering Mechanical Engineering

Institute	Type	State	NIRF rank	Opening rank	Closing rank	Deep cutoffs
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay	IIT	Maharashtra	3 (2025)	490	1,834	View
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi	IIT	Delhi	2 (2025)	1,156	1,862	View
Indian Institute of Technology Madras	IIT	Tamilnadu	1 (2025)	868	2,468	View
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur	IIT	Uttar Pradesh	4 (2025)	1,589	2,771	View
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee	IIT	Uttrakhand	6 (2025)	2,155	3,897	View
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	IIT	West Bengal	5 (2025)	2,773	4,016	View
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad	IIT	Telangana	7 (2025)	2,837	4,443	View
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati	IIT	Assam	8 (2025)	3,984	4,892	View
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar	IIT	Gujarat	25 (2025)	4,409	6,904	View
Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi	IIT	Uttar Pradesh	10 (2025)	4,787	7,286	View
Indian Institute of Technology Indore	IIT	Madhya Pradesh	12 (2025)	4,522	7,545	View
Indian Institute of Technology Ropar	IIT	Punjab	32 (2025)	7,135	9,115	View
Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur	IIT	Rajasthan	27 (2025)	7,550	9,569	View
Indian Institute of Technology Mandi	IIT	Himachal Pradesh	26 (2025)	8,023	10,267	View
Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad	IIT	Jharkhand	15 (2025)	7,662	10,273	View
Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar	IIT	Orissa	39 (2025)	7,759	11,678	View
Indian Institute of Technology Patna	IIT	Bihar	19 (2025)	8,588	11,758	View
National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal	NIT	Karnataka	17 (2025)	7,778	12,126	View
Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati	IIT	Andhra Pradesh	57 (2025)	9,551	12,143	View
Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad	IIT	Kerala	64 (2025)	8,596	12,606	View
Indian Institute of Technology Goa	IIT	Goa	101 (2025)	9,914	13,451	View
Indian Institute of Technology Jammu	IIT	Jammu & Kashmir	56 (2025)	11,301	14,453	View
Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai	IIT	Chhattisgarh	72 (2025)	11,516	14,788	View
Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad	IIT	Karnataka	77 (2025)	11,721	14,852	View
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli	NIT	Tamilnadu	9 (2025)	9,004	14,978	View
National Institute of Technology, Warangal	NIT	Telangana	28 (2025)	11,409	17,643	View
Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur	NIT	Rajasthan	42 (2025)	11,118	19,756	View
National Institute of Technology Delhi	NIT	Delhi	65 (2025)	16,336	21,049	View
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad	NIT	Uttar Pradesh	62 (2025)	15,115	21,070	View
National Institute of Technology Calicut	NIT	Kerala	21 (2025)	13,760	21,336	View
National Institute of Technology, Rourkela	NIT	Orissa	13 (2025)	16,389	21,488	View
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur	NIT	Maharashtra	44 (2025)	16,270	21,612	View
Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat	NIT	Gujarat	66 (2025)	21,785	27,882	View
National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur	NIT	Jharkhand	82 (2025)	24,054	28,545	View
National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra	NIT	Haryana	85 (2025)	24,206	30,173	View
National Institute of Technology Durgapur	NIT	West Bengal	49 (2025)	21,285	33,709	View
Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal	NIT	Madhya Pradesh	81 (2025)	22,945	34,275	View
National Institute of Technology Patna	NIT	Bihar	53 (2025)	32,859	38,896	View
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur	NIT	West Bengal	54 (2025)	27,305	39,236	View
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Manufacturing, Kancheepuram	IIIT	Tamilnadu	151 (2025)	21,187	44,137	View
Pt. Dwarka Prasad Mishra Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Manufacture Jabalpur	IIIT	Madhya Pradesh	101 (2025)	30,160	44,435	View
National Institute of Technology, Andhra Pradesh	NIT	Andhra Pradesh	201 (2025)	30,620	44,846	View
Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar	NIT	Punjab	55 (2025)	27,135	46,722	View
National Institute of Technology, Uttarakhand	NIT	Uttarakhand	151 (2025)	40,050	52,147	View
Shri G. S. Institute of Technology and Science Indore	GFTI	Madhya Pradesh	—	49,654	55,093	View
National Institute of Technology Nagaland	NIT	Nagaland	101 (2025)	36,722	56,813	View
National Institute of Technology Raipur	NIT	Chhattisgarh	86 (2025)	45,916	59,807	View
National Institute of Technology Goa	NIT	Goa	101 (2025)	32,417	64,851	View
Institute of Infrastructure, Technology, Research and Management-Ahmedabad	GFTI	Gujarat	—	45,002	67,544	View
Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh	GFTI	Punjab	101 (2025)	49,911	67,850	View
National Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Ranchi	GFTI	Jharkhand	201 (2025)	52,251	68,000	View
National Institute of Technology, Silchar	NIT	Assam	50 (2025)	33,832	68,356	View
Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi	GFTI	Jharkhand	51 (2025)	55,683	69,698	View
Birla Institute of Technology, Deoghar Off-Campus	GFTI	Jharkhand	—	60,972	73,343	View
National Institute of Technology Hamirpur	NIT	Himachal Pradesh	97 (2025)	52,785	73,871	View
Birla Institute of Technology, Patna Off-Campus	GFTI	Bihar	—	59,900	74,710	View
Puducherry Technological University, Puducherry	GFTI	Puducherry	201 (2025)	55,415	78,585	View
School of Engineering, Tezpur University, Napaam, Tezpur	GFTI	Assam	—	74,255	91,057	View
Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, Jammu & Kashmir	GFTI	Jammu & Kashmir	151 (2024)	78,020	94,474	View
Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology	GFTI	Punjab	79 (2025)	48,955	99,763	View
School of Studies of Engineering and Technology, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur	GFTI	Chhattisgarh	—	79,980	1,03,475	View
Gurukula Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar	GFTI	Uttarakhand	—	63,748	1,06,206	View
National Institute of Technology Meghalaya	NIT	Meghalaya	83 (2025)	1,36,427	1,36,427	View
National Institute of Technology Puducherry	NIT	Puducherry	99 (2025)	31,635	1,67,788	View
National Institute of Technology Arunachal Pradesh	NIT	Arunachal Pradesh	101 (2025)	1,52,525	2,01,715	View
National Institute of Technology Agartala	NIT	Tripura	101 (2025)	1,32,304	2,04,344	View
Ghani Khan Choudhary Institute of Engineering and Technology, Malda, West Bengal	GFTI	West Bengal	—	2,17,008	2,94,449	View
National Institute of Technology, Srinagar	NIT	Jammu & Kashmir	73 (2025)	3,34,003	3,34,003	View
National Institute of Technology, Manipur	NIT	Manipur	151 (2025)	2,62,448	5,29,893	View
National Institute of Technology Sikkim	NIT	Sikkim	151 (2025)	2,95,129	6,26,461	View
National Institute of Technology, Mizoram	NIT	Mizoram	101 (2025)	8,40,727	13,14,967	View
North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology, Nirjuli-791109 (Itanagar), Arunachal Pradesh	GFTI	Arunachal Pradesh	151 (2025)	—	—	View

Using this data

To predict which colleges and branches your rank qualifies for across JoSAA, use the College & Branch Predictor.
To browse all engineering branches offered through JoSAA, head to Participating Branches.
To understand how categories, quotas, and seat pools interact with cutoffs, see the seat matrix guide.

Frequently asked questions

How many colleges offer Mechanical Engineering through JoSAA?

72 JoSAA participating institutes offer Mechanical Engineering through the Bachelor of Technology programme — including 23 IITs and 32 NITs. Full list with the latest cutoff data is on this page.

What is the duration of a Mechanical Engineering programme?

Most institutes offer Mechanical Engineering as a 4-year Bachelor of Technology programme. A few institutes may offer dual-degree variants; check the specific institute's deep page for programme-specific details.

Which rank do I need for Mechanical Engineering at the top colleges?

Cutoffs vary dramatically by institute. The table below shows the latest Open category, Gender-Neutral closing rank per institute. For a rank-based shortlist across all colleges and branches, use the RankMatrix College & Branch Predictor.

Do I need JEE Advanced for Mechanical Engineering?

You need JEE Advanced only for IIT seats. NIT, IIIT, and GFTI seats for Mechanical Engineering are allocated from the JEE Main rank list through JoSAA.

Data on this page is sourced from public JoSAA publications and cleaned for easier reference. RankMatrix is an independent project and is not affiliated with JoSAA, JEE, NTA, the IITs, NITs, IIITs, or GFTIs. Verify all schedules, rules, and cutoffs on the official JoSAA website before making admission decisions.