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Quick Answer The FindUrCollege MHT-CET college predictor by percentile maps your percentile to the official CAP Round I 2026-27 closing percentiles for 96 Maharashtra engineering colleges and 541 branch groups, and grades each Strong / Possible / Reach. As a guide (Computer Engineering, General Open, CAP Round I 2026-27): 99.0+ = VJTI 99.99, COEP 99.98, SPIT 99.83, PICT 99.79, DJ Sanghvi 99.61, Walchand Sangli 99.49, TSEC 99.10 and PCCOE 99.05; 98-99 = VIT Pune 98.39, Fr CRCE 98.17 and DYPCOE Akurdi 98.13; 96-98 = Vidyalankar 97.90, PVG COET 97.88, AISSMS COE 97.67 and DYPIT Pimpri 97.41; 94-96 = MMCOE Karvenagar 95.89, MIT AOE Alandi 95.47, PES Modern 95.44 and BVCOE Navi Mumbai 94.98; 90-94 = Terna 93.45, ADYPSOE Lohegaon 93.08, ICEM Pune 92.59 and SKNCOE Vadgaon 91.43; 80 to 90 percentile = Computer Engineering at metro-fringe colleges such as DY Patil Talegaon 89.90, Zeal Narhe 84.03 and Keystone 80.43. It is free with no sign-up.
MHT-CET College Predictor 2026 — free, no sign-up
Enter your percentile and instantly see which Maharashtra engineering colleges & branches you can realistically get — graded Strong / Possible / Reach. No email wall.
✅ Sourcing: every percentile below is read from the State Common Entrance Test Cell, Government of Maharashtra — “Cut Off List for Maharashtra & Minority Seats of CAP Round I, First Year Four Year Degree Courses in Engineering and Technology, 2026-27”, with the CAP Round II 2026-27 list of the same series shown beside it. Read the round label: Round I and Round II are different lists and are never blended here. Verify the current round on mahacet.org before locking your choice form.
How we source the numbers on this page
Every closing percentile here is read from one document: the State Common Entrance Test Cell, Government of Maharashtra — “Cut Off List for Maharashtra & Minority Seats of CAP Round I, First Year Four Year Degree Courses in Engineering and Technology, 2026-27”, published on the CET Cell’s FE 2026-27 admission portal (fe2026.mahacet.org; the list itself is 2026ENGG_CAP1_MH_CutOff_V1.pdf, 1,580 pages) and captured 19 August 2026. The CAP Round II figures come from the Round II list in the same series, captured the same day. The CAP Round III (published 24 August 2026) and CAP Round IV (3 September 2026) lists in the same series were captured on 6 September 2026 and are shown beside every Round I figure in the tables and in the predictor’s results. The 2025 column is the corresponding CAP Round I 2025 figure, kept so you can see which way a cut-off moved. No aggregator, no coaching-site table and no estimate is used anywhere on this page.
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Evidence note — check the round and the year beside every figure before you use it. CAP Round I, II, III and IV 2026-27 and CAP Round I 2025 are five different lists; a number that moves between them is a genuine movement, not a correction. A later round’s figure is where that round’s last seat in the group went, not an easier cut-off: of the 459 branch groups with a Round IV figure, 266 closed higher in Round IV than in Round I (a vacated seat went to a stronger candidate), 187 closed lower and 6 closed at the same percentile (groups shown as a range are compared on their lower figure). The predictor grades on Round I; the Round II, III and IV figures sit beside every result and table row (lists published 13 August, 24 August and 3 September 2026; the later two captured 6 September). Nothing here should be averaged across rounds or multiplied, and none of it is a projection of what the institute-level round closed at.
How this MHT-CET college predictor works
In one line: for every college and branch group it compares your percentile against the closing percentile published in the State CET Cell’s CAP Round I 2026-27 cut-off list, and grades the result.
Strong chance — your percentile is clearly above the CAP Round I 2026-27 closing band.
Possible / borderline — you are inside or just under the band; realistic in CAP Round I–II.
Reach — below the band; possible only in later rounds, vacancy rounds or institute-level rounds.
Pick a reserved category and the predictor switches to that category’s own official closing percentile in the same list — it does not apply a relaxation to the Open figure. Where the list records no allotment in your category at a college, that college is not shown for that category, and the result says how many were left out. If you are in the 80 to 90 percentile MHT-CET band, the 80-85 and 85-90 tables below show where Computer Engineering and IT are still realistic at solid metro-fringe colleges.
Read the CET Cell’s list the way it is written
Every seat in that list carries two numbers. The large one is the Maharashtra State General Merit Number; the bracketed one is the Merit Percentile. This page speaks only in percentiles, and a merit number is never quoted here as one — they are different quantities and swapping them is the most common way a cut-off gets misreported.
This is a college predictor based on your percentile, not your marks or rank. The CET Cell declares MHT-CET results as a percentile, and its cut-off lists carry a merit number with the percentile in brackets — never marks. Its own Document on Normalization (listed on cetcell.mahacet.org as “MHT-CET 2026: Document on Normalization”, captured 5 September 2026) says the marks obtained are transformed into a percentile scale “for each session of examinees” and that the “percentile score is not the same as percentage of marks obtained” — so there is no single marks-to-percentile table, and a chart on any other website is that website’s estimate. The rank you may be looking for is the Maharashtra State General Merit Number, which the CET Cell assigns in the CAP merit list from your percentile; the cut-off list prints that merit number beside each percentile, and this page quotes only the percentile.
The category codes have their own grammar: the first letter is G for General or L for Ladies, and the last is H for Home University, O for Other than Home University and S for State Level. The General Open figure shown here is the Home University pool at colleges that have one, and the State Level pool at autonomous, government and university institutes, which is what the list itself publishes. Two colleges here are women-only — Cummins College of Engineering for Women and Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering for Women — and have no General pool at all, so their Ladies Open figure is used and labelled as such on every row.
How the branch groups on this page are formed
In one line: the CET Cell publishes a cut-off per course code, not per “branch”, so this page groups those course names and shows the range across the group — the low end is the softest course in the group, the high end the hardest. Nothing is renamed: every course name below is the CET Cell’s own.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Science; Artificial Intelligence and Data Science; Computer Science and Engineering (Artificial Intelligence and Data Science); Computer Science and Engineering(Data Science)
AI & ML
Artificial Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning; Computer Science and Engineering (Artificial Intelligence); Computer Science and Engineering(Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning)
E&TC
Electronics and Telecommunication Engg
Electronics
Electronics Engineering; Electronics Engineering ( VLSI Design and Technology); Electronics and Communication(Advanced Communication Technology)
Electrical
Electrical Engineering; Electrical Engineering (Electronics and Power)
Civil Engineering; Civil and infrastructure Engineering
Chemical
Chemical Engineering
Other listed branches
Automation and Robotics; Automobile Engineering; Bio Medical Engineering; Bio Technology; Computer Science and Business Systems; Computer Science and Design; Computer Science and Engineering (Cyber Security); Computer Science and Engineering (Internet of Things and Cyber Security Including Block Chain; Computer Science and Engineering (IoT); Cyber Security; Electronics and Computer Engineering; Electronics and Computer Science; Instrumentation Engineering; Instrumentation and Control Engineering; Internet of Things (IoT); Manufacturing Science and Engineering; Mechatronics Engineering; Metallurgy and Material Technology; Printing and Packaging Technology; Production Engineering; Production Engineering[Sandwich]; Robotics and Artificial Intelligence; Robotics and Automation; Textile Technology; VLSI Design and Embedded Systems
Top MHT-CET colleges for 99+ percentile (CSE/IT/branches, General Open, CAP Round I 2026-27)
In one line: these branch groups closed between 99.00 and 99.99 percentile in CAP Round I 2026-27, so a percentile at or above the figure in the fourth column secured a seat in that group last round. Rounds II, III and IV and the 2025 figure are shown beside it so you can see which way each one moved — a later round often closes higher, not lower.
Official source: State CET Cell, Government of Maharashtra — CAP Round I and Round II 2026-27 cut-off lists for First Year Engineering (captured 19 August 2026) and the CAP Round III and Round IV 2026-27 lists (captured 6 September 2026); the 2025 column is from the CAP Round I 2025 list. Full document names are in the sourcing box near the top of this page.
Top MHT-CET colleges for 98-99 percentile (CSE/IT/branches, General Open, CAP Round I 2026-27)
In one line: these branch groups closed between 98.12 and 98.99 percentile in CAP Round I 2026-27, so a percentile at or above the figure in the fourth column secured a seat in that group last round. Rounds II, III and IV and the 2025 figure are shown beside it so you can see which way each one moved — a later round often closes higher, not lower.
Official source: State CET Cell, Government of Maharashtra — CAP Round I and Round II 2026-27 cut-off lists for First Year Engineering (captured 19 August 2026) and the CAP Round III and Round IV 2026-27 lists (captured 6 September 2026); the 2025 column is from the CAP Round I 2025 list. Full document names are in the sourcing box near the top of this page.
Top MHT-CET colleges for 96-98 percentile (CSE/IT/branches, General Open, CAP Round I 2026-27)
In one line: these branch groups closed between 96.44 and 97.96 percentile in CAP Round I 2026-27, so a percentile at or above the figure in the fourth column secured a seat in that group last round. Rounds II, III and IV and the 2025 figure are shown beside it so you can see which way each one moved — a later round often closes higher, not lower.
Showing the 40 hardest of 49 branch groups in this band; the predictor above searches all 541.
Official source: State CET Cell, Government of Maharashtra — CAP Round I and Round II 2026-27 cut-off lists for First Year Engineering (captured 19 August 2026) and the CAP Round III and Round IV 2026-27 lists (captured 6 September 2026); the 2025 column is from the CAP Round I 2025 list. Full document names are in the sourcing box near the top of this page.
Top MHT-CET colleges for 94-96 percentile (CSE/IT/branches, General Open, CAP Round I 2026-27)
In one line: these branch groups closed between 94.50 and 95.96 percentile in CAP Round I 2026-27, so a percentile at or above the figure in the fourth column secured a seat in that group last round. Rounds II, III and IV and the 2025 figure are shown beside it so you can see which way each one moved — a later round often closes higher, not lower.
Showing the 40 hardest of 55 branch groups in this band; the predictor above searches all 541.
Official source: State CET Cell, Government of Maharashtra — CAP Round I and Round II 2026-27 cut-off lists for First Year Engineering (captured 19 August 2026) and the CAP Round III and Round IV 2026-27 lists (captured 6 September 2026); the 2025 column is from the CAP Round I 2025 list. Full document names are in the sourcing box near the top of this page.
Top MHT-CET colleges for 90-94 percentile (CSE/IT/branches, General Open, CAP Round I 2026-27)
In one line: these branch groups closed between 92.34 and 93.97 percentile in CAP Round I 2026-27, so a percentile at or above the figure in the fourth column secured a seat in that group last round. Rounds II, III and IV and the 2025 figure are shown beside it so you can see which way each one moved — a later round often closes higher, not lower.
Showing the 40 hardest of 90 branch groups in this band; the predictor above searches all 541.
Official source: State CET Cell, Government of Maharashtra — CAP Round I and Round II 2026-27 cut-off lists for First Year Engineering (captured 19 August 2026) and the CAP Round III and Round IV 2026-27 lists (captured 6 September 2026); the 2025 column is from the CAP Round I 2025 list. Full document names are in the sourcing box near the top of this page.
Top MHT-CET colleges for 85-90 percentile (CSE/IT/branches, General Open, CAP Round I 2026-27)
In one line: these branch groups closed between 87.12 and 89.97 percentile in CAP Round I 2026-27, so a percentile at or above the figure in the fourth column secured a seat in that group last round. Rounds II, III and IV and the 2025 figure are shown beside it so you can see which way each one moved — a later round often closes higher, not lower.
Showing the 40 hardest of 69 branch groups in this band; the predictor above searches all 541.
Official source: State CET Cell, Government of Maharashtra — CAP Round I and Round II 2026-27 cut-off lists for First Year Engineering (captured 19 August 2026) and the CAP Round III and Round IV 2026-27 lists (captured 6 September 2026); the 2025 column is from the CAP Round I 2025 list. Full document names are in the sourcing box near the top of this page.
Top MHT-CET colleges for 80-85 percentile (CSE/IT/branches, General Open, CAP Round I 2026-27)
In one line: these branch groups closed between 81.22 and 84.94 percentile in CAP Round I 2026-27, so a percentile at or above the figure in the fourth column secured a seat in that group last round. Rounds II, III and IV and the 2025 figure are shown beside it so you can see which way each one moved — a later round often closes higher, not lower.
Showing the 40 hardest of 54 branch groups in this band; the predictor above searches all 541.
Official source: State CET Cell, Government of Maharashtra — CAP Round I and Round II 2026-27 cut-off lists for First Year Engineering (captured 19 August 2026) and the CAP Round III and Round IV 2026-27 lists (captured 6 September 2026); the 2025 column is from the CAP Round I 2025 list. Full document names are in the sourcing box near the top of this page.
Top MHT-CET colleges for Below 80 percentile (CSE/IT/branches, General Open, CAP Round I 2026-27)
In one line: these branch groups closed between 74.82 and 79.84 percentile in CAP Round I 2026-27, so a percentile at or above the figure in the fourth column secured a seat in that group last round. Rounds II, III and IV and the 2025 figure are shown beside it so you can see which way each one moved — a later round often closes higher, not lower.
Showing the 40 hardest of 166 branch groups in this band; the predictor above searches all 541.
Official source: State CET Cell, Government of Maharashtra — CAP Round I and Round II 2026-27 cut-off lists for First Year Engineering (captured 19 August 2026) and the CAP Round III and Round IV 2026-27 lists (captured 6 September 2026); the 2025 column is from the CAP Round I 2025 list. Full document names are in the sourcing box near the top of this page.
Colleges this predictor cannot grade — they are not in CAP 2026-27
In one line: the four colleges below do not appear in the CET Cell’s CAP Round I or Round II 2026-27 cut-off lists at all, so there is no CAP percentile to quote for them — and anyone quoting one is not reading the official list.
MIT-WPU admits through allotment rounds it runs itself, on a JEE Main, MHT-CET or PERA-CET score plus a statement of purpose — not through CAP. The other three carried a 2025 CAP figure on this page and no longer appear in the 2026-27 list; where a college has left CAP, its seats are filled through its own process, so ask the institute directly rather than working from a CAP percentile. Anti-assumption note: absence from the CAP list is not a judgement on the college — it only means CAP is not the route in.
Official source: State CET Cell, Government of Maharashtra — CAP Round I and Round II 2026-27 cut-off lists for First Year Engineering (captured 19 August 2026) and the CAP Round III and Round IV 2026-27 lists (captured 6 September 2026); the 2025 column is from the CAP Round I 2025 list. Full document names are in the sourcing box near the top of this page.
MHT-CET college predictor — FAQs
Which colleges can I get at 96 percentile in MHT-CET?
At 96 percentile, Computer Engineering is a strong chance at PES Modern COE, GCOEARA Avasari, BVCOE Navi Mumbai and Atharva, and out of reach at PICT, COEP and VJTI. That is the General Open picture from the CAP Round I 2026-27 list: those four closed at 95.44-95.53, 95.50, 94.98 and 94.85, and JSPM JSCOE Pune (94.77) and MES Wadia (94.45) sit below them. Borderline for Computer at 96: SIES GST Navi Mumbai (96.32), SFIT Mumbai (96.01), KKWIEER Nashik (95.94), MMCOE Pune (95.89) and MIT AOE Alandi (95.47-96.56). Closed above 96 in Round I, so reach-only at 96 or not shown at all: PICT (99.79), COEP (99.98), VJTI (99.99), VIT Pune (98.39-99.09), PCCOE (99.05) and DYPCOE Akurdi (98.13). A 96 does buy a core branch at a college whose Computer branch closed above 96: E&TC at GCOE Amravati closed at 95.61 (its Computer at 97.45), Electronics (VLSI Design and Technology) at AISSMS COE at 95.58 (Computer 97.67, E&TC 96.59) and Mechanical at PVG COET at 95.44 (Computer 97.88). Run the predictor above for all 541 branch groups.
Which colleges can I get at 94 percentile in MHT-CET?
At 94 percentile, Computer Engineering is a strong chance at Terna Navi Mumbai, DMCE Airoli, NMIET Talegaon and ADYPSOE Lohegaon, and borderline at BV Lavale and Sinhgad SCOE Vadgaon. General Open closings in the CAP Round I 2026-27 list: Terna 93.45, DMCE 93.23, NMIET 92.62-93.13, ADYPSOE 93.08, then GCOE Jalgaon 92.86, Rizvi Mumbai 92.83, GHRCEM Wagholi 92.82 and ICEM Pune 92.59. Borderline: BV Lavale 94.37, Sinhgad SCOE Vadgaon 94.25 and YCCE Nagpur 92.64-95.62. Reach only at 94 in Round I: BVCOE Navi Mumbai 94.98, Atharva 94.85, GCOEARA Avasari 95.50, PES Modern 95.44-95.53, MMCOE 95.89, KKWIEER 95.94 and SFIT 96.01. Later rounds moved some of these down and some up in the same list — BVCOE Navi Mumbai closed at 94.19 in CAP Round II, KKWIEER at 97.21 — so read the round-wise figure the predictor shows, not the label. At 94 the stronger colleges open through other branches: IT at JSPM JSCOE (93.67) and Sinhgad SCOE (93.20), E&TC at KKWIEER (93.48) and MES Wadia (93.40), Mechanical at GCOEARA Avasari (93.17). Pick a reserved category in the predictor and it switches to that category’s own official closing figure.
Which colleges can I get at 90 percentile in MHT-CET?
At about 90 percentile (General Open) the official CAP Round I 2026-27 list still had Computer Engineering open at SKNCOE Vadgaon (91.43), JSPM's BSIOTR Wagholi (90.76) and MMIT Lohgaon (90.60), and just under 90 at DY Patil Talegaon (89.90) and NBN Sinhgad (89.04). At the same college, Information Technology and AI & Data Science close a little softer than Computer Engineering, so one tier up stays reachable. Core branches - Mechanical, Civil and E&TC - open at stronger colleges at the same percentile. Use the predictor above for your exact list.
What colleges for 80 to 85 percentile MHT-CET CSE?
In CAP Round I 2026-27 (General Open) Computer Engineering closed inside the 80-85 band at DY Patil Technical Campus Talegaon (84.94), PDEA COE Manjari and Zeal COER Narhe (84.03 each), Genba Sopanrao Moze Baner (83.96), MES Mukunddas Lohia (82.46), PGMCOE Wagholi (82.14), KJ COEMR Pisoli (81.86), Sinhgad Institute of Technology Lonavala (81.64), VPS Lonavala (80.79), SKN Sinhgad Lonavala (80.53) and Keystone School of Engineering (80.43). Branded city colleges are out of reach in this band. Reserved categories get a wider list - pick your category in the predictor and it uses the official category cut-off, not an estimate.
What is the MHT-CET cutoff for PICT, COEP and VJTI CSE?
In CAP Round I 2026-27 (General Open, State Level seats) Computer Engineering closed at 99.99 percentile at VJTI and 99.79 at PICT, and Computer Science and Engineering closed at 99.98 at COEP - the official CET Cell figures this predictor uses. The same three read 99.95, 99.71 and 99.90 in CAP Round I 2025, so all three hardened. Every course listed at these three colleges closed at 98.30 percentile or higher; VJTI's Textile Technology, at 98.30, was the softest of them.
Is the predictor accurate and is it free?
Yes, it is free, and it grades your percentile against the State CET Cell's own CAP Round I 2026-27 cut-off list - 96 colleges and 541 branch groups - and it is free, with no sign-up and no email wall. Reserved-category results are the official category cut-offs from that same list rather than an estimated relaxation. Two things to read literally: a college with no CAP Round I allotment in your category is not shown at all, and Round II figures are a different round, so compare like with like before you conclude a cut-off moved.
Does a lower percentile get AI & Data Science more easily than CSE?
A little, not a lot. Across the 46 colleges on this page that list both in CAP Round I 2026-27, AI & Data Science closed below Computer Engineering at 37 of them, but the median gap is only 0.55 percentile - so the common claim of a 2 to 3 point discount does not hold. Information Technology is the wider gap, a median 1.10 percentile below Computer Engineering at the same college. Filter by branch group in the predictor to see it college by college.
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Where these figures come from. Every closing percentile on this page is read from the State Common Entrance Test Cell’s official CAP Round I to Round IV 2026-27 cut-off lists and its CAP Round I 2025 list, captured on the dates named in the sourcing box near the top of this page. Admissions aggregator websites are not admissible sources for any figure we print — not even as corroboration.
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