Colleges for JEE Advanced Rank 3,500 (OBC-NCL)

23 colleges and 139 programmes an OBC-NCL candidate with JEE Advanced rank 3,500 could get, from JoSAA 2026 final round (round 5) closing ranks.

JoSAA 2026 · round 5 closing ranks · All India seats

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23 colleges, 139 programmes

Every programme whose OBC-NCL closing rank in JoSAA 2026's final round was 3,500 or later, in All India seats, gender-neutral. Most competitive first. Female candidates had 106 more programmes open through female-only seats.

  1. #1

    Indian Institute of Technology - [IIT], Guwahati

    Guwahati, Assam

    • Chemical Science and TechnologyAll Indiaclosed at 3,502
    • Civil EngineeringAll Indiaclosed at 3,639
    • Biosciences and BioengineeringAll Indiaclosed at 4,389

  2. #2

    Indian Institute of Technology - [IIT], Indore

    Indore, Madhya Pradesh

    4 more programmes
    • Biomedical Engineering and Data ScienceAll Indiaclosed at 4,430
    • Metallurgical Engineering and Materials ScienceAll Indiaclosed at 4,637
    • Environmental Economics and Sustainable EngineeringAll Indiaclosed at 5,618
    • Applied and Industrial Chemistry (Bachelor of Science)All Indiaclosed at 5,870

  3. #3

    Indian Institute of Technology - [IIT], Kharagpur

    Kharagpur, West Bengal

    6 more programmes
    • Ocean Engineering and Naval ArchitectureAll Indiaclosed at 4,173
    • Agricultural and Food EngineeringAll Indiaclosed at 4,671
    • Physics (Bachelor of Science)All Indiaclosed at 5,182
    • Exploration Geophysics (Bachelor of Science)All Indiaclosed at 5,548
    • Chemistry (Bachelor of Science)All Indiaclosed at 5,798
    • Applied Geology (Bachelor of Science)All Indiaclosed at 5,803

  4. #4

    Indian Institute of Technology - [IIT], Roorkee

    Roorkee, Uttarakhand

    • Metallurgical & Materials EngineeringAll Indiaclosed at 3,585
    • Biosciences and BioengineeringAll Indiaclosed at 3,789
    • Geophysical Technology (B.Tech + M.Tech Dual Degree)All Indiaclosed at 4,080
    • Geological Technology (B.Tech + M.Tech Dual Degree)All Indiaclosed at 4,545
    2 more programmes
    • Physics (B.Sc + M.Sc Integrated)All Indiaclosed at 5,117
    • Chemical Sciences (B.Sc + M.Sc Integrated)All Indiaclosed at 5,241

  5. #5

    Indian Institute of Technology Patna

    Patna, Bihar

    • B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering) - MBA (IIM Mumbai) (B.Tech + MBA)All Indiaclosed at 3,598
    • B.Tech (Chemical Engineering) - MBA in Hospital and Health Care Management (IIM Bodh Gaya) (B.Tech + MBA)All Indiaclosed at 4,105
    • Mechanical EngineeringAll Indiaclosed at 4,317
    • B. Tech. (ME) - M. Tech. in Mechatronics (B.Tech + M.Tech Dual Degree)All Indiaclosed at 4,524
    12 more programmes
    • Engineering PhysicsAll Indiaclosed at 4,785
    • Chemical EngineeringAll Indiaclosed at 4,931
    • B.Tech (Civil Engineering) - MBA (IIM Bodh Gaya) (B.Tech + MBA)All Indiaclosed at 5,102
    • Civil EngineeringAll Indiaclosed at 5,370
    • B.Tech (Chemical Science and Technology) - MBA in Hospital and Health Care Management (IIM Bodh Gaya) (B.Tech + MBA)All Indiaclosed at 5,525
    • CE. - M. Tech. in Structural Engineering (B.Tech + M.Tech Dual Degree)All Indiaclosed at 5,585
    • Chemical Science and TechnologyAll Indiaclosed at 5,683
    • B.Tech (Engineering Physics) - MBA (IIM Bodh Gaya) (B.Tech + MBA)All Indiaclosed at 5,687
    • CE. - M. Tech. in Geotechnical Engineering (B.Tech + M.Tech Dual Degree)All Indiaclosed at 5,739
    • Metallurgical & Materials EngineeringAll Indiaclosed at 5,848
    • Economics (Bachelor of Science)All Indiaclosed at 5,923
    • B.Tech (Metallurgical and Materials Engineering) - MBA (IIM Bodh Gaya) (B.Tech + MBA)All Indiaclosed at 5,926

  6. #6

    Indian Institute of Technology - [IIT], Hyderabad

    Hyderabad, Telangana

    • Industrial ChemistryAll Indiaclosed at 3,602
    • Biotechnology and BioinformaticsAll Indiaclosed at 3,644
    • Biomedical EngineeringAll Indiaclosed at 3,839

  7. #7

    Indian Institute of Technology - [IIT BHU], Varanasi

    Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

    7 more programmes
    • Metallurgical EngineeringAll Indiaclosed at 4,494
    • Industrial ChemistryAll Indiaclosed at 4,681
    • Biochemical EngineeringAll Indiaclosed at 5,067
    • Biomedical EngineeringAll Indiaclosed at 5,156
    • Ceramic EngineeringAll Indiaclosed at 5,245
    • Mining EngineeringAll Indiaclosed at 5,329
    • Pharmaceutical Engineering & TechnologyAll Indiaclosed at 5,776

  8. #8

    Indian Institute of Technology - [IIT], Bombay

    Mumbai, Maharashtra

  9. #9

    Indian Institute of Technology - [IIT], Kanpur

    Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh

  10. #10

    Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad

    Palakkad, Kerala

  11. #11

    Indian Institute of Technology Goa

    Ponda, Goa

  12. #12

    Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar

    Gandhinagar, Gujarat

  13. #13

    Indian Institute of Technology - [IIT ISM], Dhanbad

    Dhanbad, Jharkhand

    10 more programmes
    • Petroleum EngineeringAll Indiaclosed at 4,987
    • Mining EngineeringAll Indiaclosed at 5,625
    • Mineral and Metallurgical EngineeringAll Indiaclosed at 5,669
    • B.Tech Mining Engineering and MBA in Logistic and Supply Chain Management (IIM Mumbai) (B.Tech + MBA)All Indiaclosed at 5,694
    • Mining Machinery EngineeringAll Indiaclosed at 5,933
    • Environmental EngineeringAll Indiaclosed at 6,075
    • Geophysical TechnologyAll Indiaclosed at 6,155
    • Geological EngineeringAll Indiaclosed at 6,202
    • Chemical Science (B.Sc + M.Sc Integrated)All Indiaclosed at 6,218
    • Physical Science (B.Sc + M.Sc Integrated)All Indiaclosed at 6,264

  14. #14

    Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur

    Jodhpur, Rajasthan

    4 more programmes
    • Engineering Physics (Bachelor of Science)All Indiaclosed at 5,465
    • Materials EngineeringAll Indiaclosed at 5,948
    • Bio EngineeringAll Indiaclosed at 6,116
    • Engineering Chemistry (Bachelor of Science)All Indiaclosed at 6,357

  15. #15

    Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad

    Dharwad, Karnataka

    • Electrical and Electronics EngineeringAll Indiaclosed at 4,026
    • Mechanical EngineeringAll Indiaclosed at 5,570
    • Engineering PhysicsAll Indiaclosed at 5,775
    • Major in Mathematics (Bachelor of Science)All Indiaclosed at 6,017
    3 more programmes
    • Chemical and Biochemical EngineeringAll Indiaclosed at 6,107
    • Civil and Infrastructure EngineeringAll Indiaclosed at 6,129
    • Major in Physics (Bachelor of Science)All Indiaclosed at 6,372

  16. #16

    Indian Institute of Technology Jammu

    Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir

    3 more programmes

  17. #17

    Indian Institute of Technology Ropar

    Rupnagar, Punjab

    3 more programmes

  18. #18

    Indian Institute of Technology Mandi

    Mandi, Himachal Pradesh

    5 more programmes
    • Civil EngineeringAll Indiaclosed at 5,432
    • Agricultural Engineering with Data AnalyticsAll Indiaclosed at 5,705
    • Materials Science and EngineeringAll Indiaclosed at 5,734
    • Bio EngineeringAll Indiaclosed at 5,979
    • Chemical Sciences (Bachelor of Science)All Indiaclosed at 6,312

  19. #19

    Indian Institute of Technology - [IIT], Bhubaneswar

    Bhubaneswar, Odisha

  20. #20

    Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai

    Durg, Chhattisgarh

  21. #21

    Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati

    Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh

  22. #22

    Indian Institute of Technology - [IIT], Delhi

    New Delhi, Delhi

  23. #23

    Indian Institute of Technology - [IIT], Madras

    Chennai, Tamil Nadu

    • Biological Science (Bachelor of Science)All Indiaclosed at 4,969

Questions students ask

Which colleges can I get with JEE Advanced rank 3,500 in the OBC-NCL category?

Going by JoSAA 2026 final round (round 5) closing ranks, 23 colleges had at least one programme that closed at or after rank 3,500 for OBC-NCL candidates in All India seats. The most competitive of them were Indian Institute of Technology - [IIT], Guwahati (Chemical Science and Technology, closed at 3,502), Indian Institute of Technology - [IIT], Indore (Space Sciences and Engineering, closed at 3,520) and Indian Institute of Technology - [IIT], Kharagpur (Metallurgical & Materials Engineering, closed at 3,584).

Can I get Computer Science (CSE) with JEE Advanced rank 3,500?

No college's CSE closed at or after rank 3,500 in last year's final round. Related branches such as IT or ECE often close later.

Will these cutoffs be the same this year?

No list can promise a seat: closing ranks move a little every year with the number of candidates and seats. These are JoSAA 2026 final round (round 5) closing ranks; female candidates also had 106 more programmes open through female-only seats. Use them to shortlist, and fill your choices widely during counselling.

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