IIT Roorkee: Complete Guide & JoSAA 2026 Cutoff, Round Wise
IIT Roorkee traces its roots back further than any other IIT, and carries a civil-engineering legacy few institutes in Asia can match. Here's what defines the institute today, and how its 2026 JoSAA cutoffs moved round by round.
About IIT Roorkee
Originally founded in 1847 as Thomason College of Civil Engineering – making it one of the oldest engineering institutions in Asia – the institute was later established as the University of Roorkee before being converted into an IIT in 2001. Located in Roorkee, Uttarakhand, it carries this long history into a particularly strong reputation in civil and earthquake engineering, alongside a now broad, competitive offering across every major branch.
Academic Strengths
- Civil & Earthquake Engineering: A legacy strength dating back to the institute's 19th-century origins, supported by dedicated research centres.
- Computer Science & Engineering: Now firmly established among the "old IIT" cluster for CSE demand, alongside Kanpur, Kharagpur, and Guwahati.
- Electronics & Communication Engineering: A consistently strong and growing area of demand – ECE closing ranks at Roorkee have risen year over year, reflecting increasing interest.
- Hydrology and water resources: A specialised research strength tied to the institute's engineering heritage.
JoSAA 2026 Cutoff, Round Wise
Across JoSAA 2026's five rounds – the final round declared 16 July 2026 – IIT Roorkee's CSE closing rank has typically opened in the 270s–880 range and closed between roughly 550 and 600, placing it within the broader "old IIT" band. Its ECE programme has also been drawing increasing demand, with its closing rank rising from 1,424 in 2024 to 1,486 in 2025 – making ECE the second most sought-after branch on campus after CSE.
JoSAA 2026 Cutoff, Round Wise
JoSAA 2026 ran five rounds, with the final round declared on 16 July 2026. The table below is IIT Roorkee'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. Data Science and Artificial Intelligence closed almost as tight as CSE itself, ahead of every core engineering branch on campus.
| Branch (Gender-Neutral, OPEN) | Round 5 (Final) Closing Rank |
|---|---|
| Computer Science & Engineering | 587 |
| Data Science & Artificial Intelligence | 847 |
| Mathematics & Computing (5 Yr Dual Degree) | 1,529 |
| Electronics & Communication Engineering | 1,541 |
| Electrical Engineering | 2,269 |
| Engineering Physics | 4,251 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 4,453 |
| Energy Engineering | 5,418 |
| Chemical Engineering | 5,572 |
| Production & Industrial Engineering | 5,903 |
| Economics (5 Yr Dual Degree) | 5,957 |
| Civil Engineering | 7,765 |
| Metallurgical & Materials Engineering | 7,977 |
| Biosciences & Bioengineering | 8,735 |
| Physics (5 Yr Dual Degree) | 9,749 |
| Geophysical Technology (5 Yr) | 9,779 |
| Geological Technology (5 Yr) | 11,560 |
| Chemical Sciences (5 Yr Dual Degree) | 12,132 |
| Architecture | 19,389 |
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 Roorkee, from CSE through to Civil.
We're not publishing specific OBC-NCL, SC, or ST numbers for IIT Roorkee 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 Roorkee sees strong, steady recruitment across software, core civil and mechanical engineering, and infrastructure-focused roles, reflecting its unusually deep civil engineering research base alongside its now well-established technology recruitment pipeline.