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Indian Institute of Technology Bombay has declared the UCEED 2026 seat allotment and Round 1 cut off on April 21, 2026. Candidates can now check their allotment status on the official website. However, the final UCEED 2026 cutoff is yet to be released, so the focus has now shifted to the expected cutoff trends. Based on student feedback and exam analysis, UCEED 2026 was relatively easy. This trend may push the UCEED 2026 cut off higher compared to previous years. To secure admission, candidates must first clear the UCEED 2026 part A cutoff and then meet the overall UCEED 2026 cut off. The authorities released the UCEED 2026 Part A cutoff online on February 5, 2026. Read the complete article by Careers360 to analyze the expected UCEED 2026 final cut off
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The UCEED 2026 entrance exam was conducted on January 18, 2026 for admission into IIT B.Des programmes. IIT Bombay has declared the UCEED 2026 result on March 6, 2026. A good score in UCEED 2026 for the general category is expected to be around 180–200+ marks, which can improve the chances of getting a seat through the UCEED 2026 seat allotment process.
Candidates have to clear two types of UCEED cut-offs. First, they must obtain the minimum qualifying marks for part A of UCEED 2026. Only such candidates are evaluated for their performance in part B. The UCEED 2026 analysis indicates that the question paper was relatively easy, which means the UCEED expected cutoff 2026 will trend on the higher side. Given below are the UCEED cutoff predictions for part A and B.
Candidates can check the table below to see the opening and closing ranks for the UCEED Round 1 cutoff for all the categories:
| Open | Open-PwD | EWS | EWS-PwD | OBC-NCL | OBC-NCL-PwD | SC | SC-PwD | ST | ST-PwD | FN | ||||||||||||
| Institute | Opening | Closing | Opening | Closing | Opening | Closing | Opening | Closing | Opening | Closing | Opening | Closing | Opening | Closing | Opening | Closing | Opening | Closing | Opening | Closing | Opening | Closing |
| IIT Bombay | 1 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | - | - | 6 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | - | - | 1 | 5 | - | - | - | - |
| IIT Delhi | 17 | 28 | - | - | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 31 | - | - | 8 | 10 | - | - | 9 | 10 | - | - | - | - |
| IIT Guwahati | 15 | 77 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 16 | - | - | 19 | 44 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 22 | - | - | 2 | 11 | - | - | - | - |
| IIT Hyderabad | 19 | 40 | - | - | 9 | 14 | - | - | 16 | 41 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 18 | - | - | 7 | 7 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| IIT Indore | 42 | 66 | - | - | 18 | 19 | - | - | 36 | 48 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 27 | - | - | 12 | 12 | - | - | - | - |
| IIT Roorkee | 59 | 90 | - | - | 15 | 20 | - | - | 37 | 51 | - | - | 23 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 17 | - | - | - | - |
| IIITDM Jabalpur | 91 | 142 | 11 | 11 | 21 | 29 | - | - | 52 | 70 | 5 | 5 | 28 | 37 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 22 | - | - | - | - |
UCEED Part A was for 200 marks. The UCEED cut-off 2026 for the general category is determined by adding half the standard deviation of the mark distribution of all candidates’ marks in Part A to the average marks of all candidates in Part A.
For the OBC and EWS categories, the UCEED 2026 cut-off marks for Part A will be 0.9 times that of the general category. For the SC and ST category, the UCEED cut-off 2026 will be 0.5 times that of the general category.
The mean and standard deviation for Part-A (UCEED 2026) are 70.86 and 25.77, respectively.
The exam analysis and trends indicate that a good score in UCEED 2026 is expected to be around 180-200+ marks out of 300 marks. The UCEED 2026 cut-off rank will be determined by combining the scores of the candidate in parts A and B of the exam.
The UCEED expected cutoff 2026 for the open category will be determined based on the All India rank. However, for other categories, the category rank will be considered to determine the UCEED 2026 expected cutoff.
The UCEED 2026 expected cut-off for the general category is expected to be a rank less than 100 to get an IIT B.Des seat. Given below are the expected cut-off ranks for various UCEED participating institutes and categories of candidates based on last year's trends. The UCEED 2026 expected cut-off ranks are not expected to differ much from the previous year.
IIT | Open (All India rank) | EWS (Category rank) | OBC-NCL (Category rank) | SC (Category rank) | ST (Category rank) |
IIT Bombay | 14 | 4 | 13 | 7 | 5 |
IIT Delhi | 41 | 15 | 28 | 11 | 8 |
IIT Guwahati | 96 | 21 | 50 | 27 | 7 |
IIT Hyderabad | 61 | 19 | 44 | 19 | 11 |
IIT Indore | 119 | 23 | 61 | 31 | 13 |
IIT Roorkee | 111 | 18 | 56 | 33 | 12 |
IIITDM Jabalpur | 267 | 39 | 104 | 51 | 19 |
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