Thapar Cutoff 2026 JEE AIR & %ile by Branch, Round-wise

Thapar CSE/COPC cutoff 2026 and 2025 — official round-wise table

Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology (TIET), Patiala publishes its own round-wise cutoff PDFs after each online counselling round, and each row carries a quota code. The two codes that matter for General-category candidates are GENO (General, Outside Punjab) and GENP (General, Punjab). The table below carries only the figures printed in the official TIET second-online-counselling PDFs for 2025 and 2026 — nothing estimated, nothing rounded.

Summary: CSE/COPC closed at AIR 39,265 GENO / AIR 59,508 GENP in 2026 Round 2, and at AIR 33,379 GENO / AIR 31,743 GENP in 2025 Round 2 — all official TIET figures.

📌 In one line: official closing data — year/category labeled; verify the current round on the official portal.

Official source: TIET cutoff PDFs — “Cut off — Second online counselling 2025 (AIR)” and “Cut off — Second online counselling 2026 (AIR - 2)”, published by Thapar admissions via thapar.edu. These PDFs list closing AIR with the corresponding JEE Main percentile per quota code.

The canonical way to quote the previous cycle: in TIET 2025 Round 2, CSE/COPC closed at AIR 33,379 for Outside Punjab GENO and AIR 31,743 for Punjab GENP. If you see a Thapar CSE cutoff quoted without a quota label, a round number and a year, treat it as unreliable — the GENO and GENP pools can sit tens of thousands of ranks apart in the same round, as 2026 shows.

GENO vs GENP: read the quota label before the number

TIET splits its General-category seats between two pools and publishes a separate closing rank for each. GENO covers candidates from outside Punjab; GENP covers Punjab candidates. The same branch, in the same round, closes at a different AIR in each pool because the applicant pools are different sizes and strengths. This is the single most common reading error with Thapar cutoffs: a student sees the Punjab GENP number, assumes it applies to them as an outside-Punjab applicant, and mis-plans their choice filling.

The 2026 Round 2 CSE/COPC row makes the gap concrete: GENO closed at AIR 39,265 while GENP closed at AIR 59,508 — a difference of more than 20,000 ranks between the two pools in the same round for the same branch. In 2025 the two pools were nearly level (33,379 GENO vs 31,743 GENP, with GENP actually tighter). So the relationship between the pools is not fixed; it flips year to year. The only safe habit is to read your own pool's row and ignore the other one.

Reserved-category and other quota codes also appear in the official PDFs with their own closing ranks. This page tracks the General rows because they are the reference point most aspirants search for; for any other quota code, pull the round PDF for your year or confirm with TIET admissions (thapar.edu).

How TIET counselling works — and why JoSAA never shows Thapar

Thapar is a private deemed university. It does not participate in JoSAA or CSAB, and you will never find a TIET row in those seat matrices. Admission to B.E./B.Tech runs through TIET's own JEE-Main-score-based online counselling: you register on the official Thapar admission portal, fill branch choices, and seats are allotted purely on JEE Main merit within each quota pool. After each round, TIET publishes the closing AIR and percentile per branch per quota — those PDFs are the source for every number on this page.

Because the counselling is TIET's own, the calendar is also TIET's own: rounds begin after JEE Main results and continue across multiple online rounds. The PDFs cited here are from the second online counselling (Round 2) of each year. Later rounds can close slightly deeper (more relaxed) as some allotted candidates withdraw for other institutes, but that movement is not guaranteed and varies by branch and year — confirm the current round schedule with TIET admissions (thapar.edu).

One more myth to close out: Thapar does not sell seats outside this merit process. There is no official paid “management quota” route at TIET — every B.E. seat flows through the JEE-Main-based counselling. The Thapar management quota page covers that question in full.

Cutoff trend: what changed from 2025 to 2026

Summary: the Outside Punjab GENO closing moved from AIR 33,379 to 39,265 (about 5,900 ranks deeper), while Punjab GENP moved from AIR 31,743 to 59,508 — a far bigger relaxation in the Punjab pool.

📌 In one line: official closing data — year/category labeled; verify the current round on the official portal.

Movement computed directly from the two official TIET Round 2 cutoff PDFs (2025 AIR and 2026 AIR versions, thapar.edu). Round 2 vs Round 2 is the only like-for-like comparison; do not compare a Round 2 figure with a later-round figure from a different year.

Two readings follow from this. First, the Outside Punjab pool stayed tight: a movement of roughly 5,900 ranks on a base of 33,000 is normal year-to-year drift for a high-demand CSE seat, driven by shifts in applicant volume and JEE Main normalisation. Anyone planning on the GENO pool should treat the 33,000–39,000 band as the realistic two-year closing range at Round 2, not assume the softer 2026 number will repeat. Second, the Punjab pool relaxed sharply in 2026 — from closing tighter than GENO in 2025 to closing more than 20,000 ranks later in 2026. A single year's swing like this can reverse; Punjab candidates should not bank on AIR 59,508 being available again.

Remember also that this is one branch (CSE/COPC) at one round (R2). Other branches and later rounds move on their own curves, and a strong or weak withdrawal season after Round 2 can shift final closings in either direction.

What JEE AIR should you target for Thapar CSE

Working only from the two official Round 2 closings, here is the practical targeting logic for the next cycle:

Outside Punjab (GENO): an AIR inside ~33,000 (roughly 97.8+ percentile) covered both the 2025 closing (33,379) and the 2026 closing (39,265) — that is the “safe zone” where CSE/COPC was available in Round 2 in both years. The 33,000–39,000 band is the borderline zone: it cleared in 2026 but would have missed in 2025, so whether it works depends on the year. Beyond ~39,000, CSE/COPC has not closed in either of the last two Round 2 lists, though a later round in a soft year may still reach you — keep choices filled and confirm round movement with TIET admissions (thapar.edu).

Punjab (GENP): the two-year picture is wider — 31,743 in 2025 vs 59,508 in 2026. For certainty, target inside ~31,000, which clears both years. AIRs between ~32,000 and ~59,000 worked in 2026 but not 2025, so treat that whole band as year-dependent rather than assured.

There is a second reason to chase a better AIR than the bare cutoff: TIET's official scholarship policy is ranked by JEE AIR (details below), so the difference between scraping past the closing rank and sitting comfortably inside it can be worth several lakhs in fee waivers. For context on what those fees are, the CSE-group (DSAI, COE/CSE, CSBS, ENC) total semester fee is ₹3,25,000 (≈₹6,50,000 per year academic) per the official TIET 2026-27 fee PDF — the full structure is on the Thapar fees page.

Other branches: indicative percentile bands

Summary: only CSE/COPC figures on this page are official; the branch bands below are indicative admission-trend ranges, not TIET PDF rows.

📌 In one line: official closing data — year/category labeled; verify the current round on the official portal.

The CSE/COPC rows come from the official TIET Round 2 cutoff PDFs. The other bands are indicative trends compiled for guidance and are deliberately shown as ranges; the official round PDFs for your year and quota are the only binding source. Branch-wise closing AIRs for ECE, Mechanical, Civil and Chemical are not part of the PDFs cited on this page — confirm with TIET admissions (thapar.edu).

A useful rule of thumb when the official row for your branch is not in front of you: at Thapar the computing branches close first, the electronics cluster next, and the core branches (Mechanical, Civil, Chemical) last. If your percentile misses the CSE band, check the same round's rows for ECE and the core branches before writing off TIET — and re-check in later rounds, where closings can ease.

Scholarships tied to your JEE AIR

TIET's official scholarship policy for 2026-27 ranks incoming students by JEE AIR, which makes your rank matter beyond the cutoff line:

• MS-I: the first 50 students admitted by JEE AIR, with 95% or more in 10+2, get a full tuition + development fee waiver.
• MS-II: the next 60 by JEE AIR, with 90% or more in 10+2, get a tuition fee waiver.
• MS-III: the first 10% admitted per discipline by JEE AIR, with 85% or more in 10+2, get a 50% tuition waiver.
• Merit-cum-means: tuition + development waiver in selected cases where family income is ≤₹10 lakh.

Source: TIET Scholarship Policy (2026-27) PDF, thapar.edu. Full slab-by-slab detail, continuation conditions and the lateral-entry waiver (25–50% by diploma marks) are on the Thapar scholarship page.

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