IIT (BHU) Varanasi: Complete Guide & JoSAA 2026 Cutoff, Round Wise

Few IITs carry as long a history under a different name as IIT (BHU) Varanasi – a century-old engineering institution that only became an IIT in the last decade and a half. Here's what defines it today, and how its 2026 JoSAA cutoffs moved round by round.

About IIT (BHU) Varanasi

Originally founded in 1919 as the Banaras Engineering College within Banaras Hindu University, the institute was converted to IIT status in 2012 – giving it a rare combination of a century-old academic legacy and IIT-era resources. It sits within BHU's large, historic Varanasi campus, and carries forward particular traditional strength in metallurgical, ceramic, and mining engineering from its pre-IIT history, alongside a now fully competitive spread of modern branches.

Academic Strengths

• Metallurgical & Ceramic Engineering: A traditional area of depth dating back to the institute's pre-IIT history, rare among the newer IITs.
• Computer Science & Engineering: Rapidly growing in demand since the institute's conversion to IIT status.
• Mining Engineering: Another legacy strength tied to the institute's original Banaras Engineering College curriculum.
• Century-old campus infrastructure: A far larger, more established physical campus than most institutes converted to IIT status around the same period.

JoSAA 2026 Cutoff, Round Wise

Across JoSAA 2026's five rounds – the final round declared 16 July 2026 – IIT (BHU) Varanasi's CSE closing rank has typically opened in the 700s–1,250 range and closed between roughly 1,250 and 1,400, placing it just behind the older, fully-established IIT cluster but ahead of most newer, post-2008 IITs.

JoSAA 2026 Cutoff, Round Wise

JoSAA 2026 ran five rounds, with the final round declared on 16 July 2026. The table below is IIT (BHU) Varanasi's complete final-round (Round 5) result, pulled directly from JoSAA's own OR-CR portal – OPEN category, gender-neutral seats, across every programme on offer. The institute's historic strengths still show up clearly at the bottom of the table – Metallurgical, Ceramic, and Mining Engineering all sit among the wider-spread branches, alongside newer additions like Pharmaceutical Engineering.

This is JoSAA 2026's final, closed result. Confirm the current year's actual figures on JoSAA's own OR-CR portal (josaa.nic.in) once that year's rounds are under way, rather than assuming this table still applies.

How Reserved Categories Compare

JoSAA keeps a separate closing rank for every category – General, EWS, OBC-NCL, SC, ST, and PwD – and each one is a position within that category's own applicant pool, not the overall merit list. As a rule, EWS tracks closest to the General figure, OBC-NCL relaxes further, and SC/ST relax the most of all, since fewer candidates compete within each of those pools. That pattern holds across every branch at IIT (BHU) Varanasi, from CSE through to its traditional core engineering departments.

We're not publishing specific OBC-NCL, SC, or ST numbers for IIT (BHU) Varanasi here – the third-party sources available for category-specific figures disagree with each other widely enough, even for well-documented institutes, that citing one as fact would be misleading. For the precise, current closing rank in your own category and branch, use JoSAA's OR-CR tool directly on josaa.nic.in.

Placements

IIT (BHU) Varanasi draws steady recruitment across software, core metallurgical and mining engineering, and mechanical roles, benefiting from both its growing technology-sector reputation and its long-standing core engineering strengths.

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