What is the full form of JoSAA?
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JoSAA is the short form for Joint Seat Allocation Authority. It acts as an agency under the Ministry of Education that administers. It manages the joint seat allocation for the 2023–24 academic year for 118 institutes. JoSAA holds common seat allotment of candidates based on JEE Main and JEE Advanced rankings. JoSAA 2024 will have seats available at the IITs, NITs, IIITs, and a few other GFTIs. JoSAA provides a level-playing field by making sure that seat allotment is done on the basis of merit and choice institutes and branches of study.
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JoSAA stands for Joint Seat Allocation Authority. JoSAA Counselling is conducted by JoSAA, which is an authority set up by the Ministry of Education to manage and regulate the counselling process. It provides admission to 118 institutes in India. The JoSAA counselling is held to provide admissions to NITs, IIITs, GFTIs, and IITs to eligible candidates. Admission to all the academic programmes offered by these Participating Institutes is made via a single platform.
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- Candidates should have JEE Advanced rank.
- Candidates must have at least 75% aggregate marks in class 12 and SC, ST and PWD candidates must have atleast 65% marks.
- Candidates must be within the category wise top 25 percentile of successful candidates of their respective class 12 boards.
No, your candidature will be rejected as you need to have minimum of 75% in class 12 to be eligible for admisison to the IITs, NIT, IIITs and GFTIs via the JoSAA counselling. Even if you pass JEE Advanced and JEE Main, of you do not have 75% minimum marks in class 12 boards you will no get admissions.
The JEE Advanced JoSAA counselling dates will be made available on the official website of JoSAA - josaa.nic.in. Usually, the JoSAA counselling registration starts a day after the JEE Advanced result is anniunced. Complete schedule will be available on the official website.
No, one does not have to apply separately at IIT Madras website after JoSAA counselling. This is because the institute follows a common admission process for its BTech course just like the other IITs. Shortlisted students who get a seat through the JoSAA counselling, simply need to report for document verification and pay the acceptance fees. All the details of the students will be forwarded to IIT Madras by JoSAA directly. Information about the orientation, fee payment, and hostel allocation will be mailed online.
The seats offered via JoSAA counselling vary every year. In 2025, the number of seats offered was as follows:
| Institute | Total seats on offer in 2025 | Number of seats added in 2025 | Total seats on offer in 2024 |
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| Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) | 18,160 | 400 | 17,760 |
| National Institute of Technology (NITs) | 24,525 | 296 | 24,229 |
| Indian Institute of Information Technology | 9,940 | 1394 | 8,546 |
| Other-Government Funded Technical Institutes | 10,228 | 826 | 9,402 |
| Total | 62,853 | 2916 | 59,937 |
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