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JoSAA Counselling Opens as IITs Add 54 Computer Science Seats

A small CSE seat increase plus new interdisciplinary undergraduate programmes will keep cutoffs high and shape first-round allocations on June 13.

Overview

  • IIT Roorkee announced JEE Advanced 2026 results on June 1, and JoSAA counselling for the 2026 admission cycle opened on June 2 with choice filling open through June 11.
  • JoSAA’s 2026 seat matrix raises total Computer Science and Engineering seats across the 23 IITs by 54 to 2,183, with the largest single-campus increases at IIT Palakkad and IIT Jammu (+10 each).
  • IIT Bombay remains the largest single-campus CSE provider with 199 seats while modest rises were also recorded at IIT ISM Dhanbad and a one-seat increase at IIT Bombay compared with 2025 figures.
  • Multiple IITs have added new interdisciplinary undergraduate programmes in areas such as artificial intelligence, design, computational engineering and biomedical technology that appear in the 2026 admission lists.
  • Competition will remain intense for top branches because the seat rise is small relative to demand, and the first mock allocations are scheduled for June 8 and June 10 before Round 1 allotments on June 13.