IIT Delhi Abu Dhabi JEE Advanced Cutoff, Year by Year

Quick Answer

IIT Delhi Abu Dhabi JEE Advanced cutoff for Computer Science and Engineering closed at All India Rank six thousand seven hundred seventy-two in 2025, once you count the institute's admission rounds that run after JoSAA's process ends. JoSAA's own six rounds only got Computer Science and Engineering to All India Rank one thousand seven hundred sixty-one. Energy Engineering went further, closing near All India Rank seven thousand eight hundred eighty-five. Chemical Engineering closed at All India Rank five thousand seven hundred twelve. Never needed the extra rounds. For 2026, a fourth branch called Electrical Engineering was added. It got selected at All India Rank three thousand one hundred fifty-five in JoSAA Round one.

Key Takeaways

• IIT Delhi Abu Dhabi's final CSE cutoff for 2025 was AIR 6,772. This rank was achieved after JoSAA's six rounds ended at AIR 1,761. 
• The institute then conducted its Rounds 7 to 10 to fill the remaining seats. Energy Engineering followed the path. It closed JoSAA’s Round 6 at AIR 5,590. The final seat allocation came in Round 10 of the institute’s own process at AIR 7,885. 
• Chemical Engineering is different. It filled up completely within JoSAA’s six rounds. The final cutoff was AIR 5,712. No further rounds were needed. 
• There is no published cutoff for 2024. That year's admissions were handled entirely through IIT Delhi's portal. JoSAA was not involved at all. 
• Electrical Engineering joined the Abu Dhabi campus for the 2026-27 intake. It closed JoSAA’s Round 1 at AIR 3,155. 
• JEE Advanced qualifiers pay tuition fees that are equivalent to those at the Delhi campus. In addition, they receive an AED 750 per month allowance. They also get AED 2,250 per month for accommodation. 

Introduction

A rank of 1,800 in JEE Advanced won't get you Computer Science at IIT Delhi's Delhi campus. It might not even look competitive for Abu Dhabi if you only check JoSAA's own portal. However, you would have secured a place in 2025 if IIT Delhi Abu Dhabi had conducted its additional rounds to fill the seats that JoSAA left empty. I have noticed the difference between the numbers that JoSAA displays and the reality. That is why the IIT Delhi Abu Dhabi JEE Advanced cutoff deserves a detailed review separate from the Delhi campus figures and the incomplete image that most cutoff summaries provide.

The Abu Dhabi campus, IITD-AD, started admitting undergraduates in 2024, so the cutoff record is brief and the data is sparse. This guide examines the JoSAA ranks, the institute’s own additional rounds and the figures broken down by category year by year, together with a true view of the fees, seats and placement situation today. I think this helps clarify the numbers. For an admissions and campus‑life overview, our full IIT Delhi Abu Dhabi guide discusses fees, scholarships and everyday campus life; this article focuses only on the numbers.

IIT Delhi Abu Dhabi JEE Advanced Cutoff 2025: JoSAA's Six Rounds

IIT Delhi Abu Dhabi cutoff shifted during all six of JoSAA’s 2025 rounds and by the end of Round 6, the Computer Science cutoff had moved far from its starting point. I have seen how the numbers evolve. 

Open category, gender-neutral seats. Compiled from JoSAA's official round-wise counselling data.

The Real Final Cutoff: IIT Delhi Abu Dhabi's Own Extended Rounds

JoSAA's six rounds are not the end of admissions here. Once JoSAA closes, IITD-AD runs its own institute-level rounds to fill whatever seats stay vacant among its 10 JEE-Advanced-reserved spots per branch, since many JoSAA-allotted candidates never join, having floated to a Delhi branch or another IIT instead. In 2025, that meant four more rounds beyond JoSAA's six, published on IITD-AD's own admissions portal.

Compiled from IITD-AD's own published round sheets: Round 6, Round 7, Round 8 and Round 10.

Why There's No 2024 IIT Delhi Abu Dhabi Cutoff on JoSAA

There is no 2024 cutoff for IIT Delhi Abu Dhabi on JoSAA because the campus did not use JoSAA for admissions in 2024 at all. The Abu Dhabi campus began its M.Tech program in January 2024. Its first two B. Tech programsTech programs. Computer Science and Energy Engineering. The new programs were launched for the 2024-25 year. The undergraduate batch officially began on September 2, 2024. There were 30 seats for each course. Students who qualified in JEE Advanced 2024 and wanted a seat at IIT Delhi Abu Dhabi had to apply through IIT Delhi’s admissions portal. This application process was separate from the JoSAA seat allocation system. From the 2025 intake, did IITD-AD become part of the standard JoSAA process?

Looking at what Rounds 7 through 10 show about how this campus fills seats, it’s very likely that IITD-AD conducted its internal rounds in 2024. However, no public rank list from that year has surfaced in this research.

No 2024 line on the table above. Not an omission. A structural fact about how that year's admission actually worked, and one that most cutoff round-ups online quietly skip past.

Note: If you see a specific 2024 Abu Dhabi closing rank quoted anywhere, treat it with caution. The rank was not published as a JoSAA round‑wise figure in the same way that the 2025 and 2026 data have been.

IIT Delhi Abu Dhabi CSE Cutoff vs Delhi Campus CSE Cutoff

I want to point out that the gap between the Abu Dhabi CSE cutoff and the Delhi CSE cutoff is larger than most comparisons suggest. The Delhi CSE closed the 2025 round at AIR 126, an open gender‑neutral cutoff. Abu Dhabi's CSE, counting its own extended rounds, closed at AIR 6,772, not the 1,761 that JoSAA's process alone shows: roughly 54 times more relaxed, not the 10 to 14 times you'd calculate from JoSAA figures alone.

Take a student at AIR 3,000, general category. At Delhi, that clears nothing close to CSE's 126, Mathematics and Computing's 323, or even Mechanical Engineering's 1,862 (all 2025 final-round figures). Going by JoSAA's own portal, it looks like it clears nothing at Abu Dhabi's CSE either, since 1,761 is what shows there. In practice, that rank had a real shot once the institute's own later rounds opened. Still, campus prestige shouldn't override branch choice: a rank of 1,600 to 1,800 clears solid core branches at Delhi itself, so weigh CSE-label-plus-Abu-Dhabi against an actual Delhi branch, not just the CSE tag. Browse how other engineering programmes across the UAE stack up, or run your own shortlist through Study From UAE's University Finder Quiz, if the Gulf route is genuinely the plan.

IIT Delhi Abu Dhabi Cutoff for OBC, SC and ST Categories

Category-wise cutoffs run tighter than the open-category numbers early on, but the same extended-round pattern applies here too. The table below shows both JoSAA's Round 1 figure and the institute's own final Round 10 figure for CSE and Energy Engineering.

Round 1 data via JoSAA's official results; final-round data via IITD-AD's own Round 10 sheet. Chemical Engineering isn't shown here since it filled within JoSAA's six rounds.

The New Electrical Engineering Seat and the 2026 Cutoff

IIT Delhi Abu Dhabi added Electrical Engineering as its fourth undergraduate branch for the 2026-27 intake, and it opened at AIR 2,301 with a JoSAA Round 1 closing rank of AIR 3,155, according to IITD-AD's own undergraduate programmes page. Whether 2026 follows the same extended-round pattern as 2025 will only be clear once IITD-AD publishes its own post-JoSAA rank sheets for this cycle, which weren't yet available at the time of writing.

IIT Delhi Abu Dhabi Fees for JEE Advanced Qualifiers

JEE Advanced qualifiers at IIT Delhi Abu Dhabi pay roughly what they'd pay at the Delhi campus, not the sticker tuition of AED 81,375 a year (about AED 325,000 across four years) that other admits are charged, according to IITD-AD's own fee and scholarship page. That works out to a waiver of roughly 90 to 100 percent on the Abu Dhabi sticker price.

On top of the waiver, JEE Advanced admits currently receive an AED 750-a-month allowance plus fully covered shared accommodation valued at AED 2,250 a month, per that same official page. Earlier cohorts and some third-party sources have quoted a flat monthly stipend instead, so this precise allowance-plus-accommodation breakdown is the one to use going forward.

Note: Fee waivers and support figures for IITD-AD have shifted across cohorts. Confirm the current numbers on the official fee and scholarship page, or through the ROI Calculator, before you build a family budget around them.

This section carries the tuition, waiver and allowance numbers a family actually needs before the return-on-investment math makes sense, so the calculator belongs directly here. You can also run the numbers on Study From UAE's ROI Calculator directly if you'd rather skip ahead.

IIT Delhi Abu Dhabi Average Package and Placement: What's Actually Known

There is no figure for the package at IIT Delhi Abu Dhabi yet because no group of undergraduates has finished the four-year programme. The first group of BTech students studying Computer Science and Energy Engineering officially started on September 2, 2024. These students are expected to finish around 2028. 

Seats work out to 10 through JEE Advanced and 20 through CAET per branch, per the original 2024 launch announcement. Students admitted this way carry an IIT Delhi degree and, in principle, access to the Delhi campus's placement cell and alumni network, but no independently verified Abu Dhabi-specific placement percentage or package figure exists as of this writing.

Be skeptical of any specific number quoted for "IIT Delhi Abu Dhabi average package." It's either borrowed loosely from Delhi's own placement report or simply unverified, an honest gap that closes only once a batch actually graduates.

What Rank Do You Actually Need? Reading the Cutoff Ranges Right

A rank inside JoSAA's published closing range doesn't tell the whole story for Abu Dhabi, and a rank outside it doesn't necessarily rule you out either. How many candidates accept, how many later withdraw for a Delhi branch, and how far IITD-AD's own follow-up rounds run all move the real number.

Two worked examples. An SC candidate at rank 1,500 aiming for Energy Engineering looks shut out by JoSAA's Round 1 figure of 1,346, but the institute's own final round closed SC Energy at 1,109-2,741, so that rank cleared comfortably in practice. An OBC candidate at rank 1,800 eyeing Chemical Engineering clears the Round 1 OBC closing rank of 2,006 directly, since Chemical never needed an extended round.

Worth remembering: CAET exists as a separate track entirely. If you're an Indian expatriate who has completed at least five years of schooling inside the UAE, JEE Advanced isn't your only door in. Check Study From UAE's student visa guide for the documentation side of things once you have an offer in hand, whether it's JEE Advanced or CAET. And if you're planning ahead of the exam itself, JoSAA typically opens registration and choice-filling in early June each year, with all rounds wrapped up by mid-July; 2027's exact dates weren't out at the time of writing, so check the JoSAA website directly closer to the date.

Should You Take an Abu Dhabi Seat Over a Delhi Branch?

The honest answer depends on the specific branch, not campus prestige alone. Chasing the "IIT Delhi" name at Abu Dhabi over a stronger core branch back in Delhi is usually the wrong trade if your rank genuinely clears something solid there. A rank around 1,800 that clears Mechanical Engineering at Delhi is arguably better spent there than gambled on Abu Dhabi's extended rounds, unless a Gulf-focused career is the actual goal.

Where Abu Dhabi genuinely earns a look: smaller cohorts, direct proximity to UAE energy and technology employers, and a real shot at a CSE-labelled seat, via the extended rounds, at a rank that would shut you out of CSE in Delhi. Khalifa University is worth a look too for comparison shopping; it competes for similar applicants without the JEE Advanced route at all.

Two honest downsides worth sitting with. The Abu Dhabi campus is still running out of an interim facility while its permanent site gets built, and the placement history simply doesn't exist yet. Neither is a dealbreaker on its own, but both deserve real weight against the appeal of a relaxed, extended-round cutoff.

Conclusion

None of this IIT Delhi Abu Dhabi JEE Advanced cutoff data stays fixed for long, and the biggest takeaway is that JoSAA's own rounds aren't the whole story. The campus added a fourth branch in a single year and, in 2025, kept admitting CSE candidates for four rounds after JoSAA's process had closed. Treat every number here as a planning anchor, not a promise, and check IITD-AD's own portal for later rounds before writing off a rank. Study From UAE's counsellors can walk through your specific rank and help you weigh Delhi against Abu Dhabi, branch by branch.