JELET Seat Matrix 2026: 24,895 Seats, and Only 1,395 Government

Our sums of the portal report. An institute that offers both B.Tech and B.Pharm is counted in both institute columns, which is why the institute columns add to more than the 127 distinct institutes.

The shape matters for strategy. A candidate aiming only at government colleges is competing for 1,395 seats, most of them Home State (domicile) seats. A candidate who will take a good private college is competing for the whole matrix, where the 2025 ORCR shows private CSE still admitting Open candidates in the 4,000s.

Our sums. The 112 state-government All India seats are all at GKCIET, Malda. Private Home State seats are the reserved-category seats, which are open only to West Bengal domiciles.

The JELET bulletin sets the domicile rule: West Bengal domicile is required for any seat, including general seats, in government-aided colleges, Aliah University and Jadavpur University, and for any reserved seat anywhere. So a candidate from another state is limited to the All India seats — nearly all of the private matrix, plus the All India seats at GKCIET, UIT Burdwan, MAKAUT, Kazi Nazrul University, UBKV and BCKV.

Our sums of the 2026 Round 1 matrix. Aliah University's 10 seats appear in the matrix but Aliah has no row in the 2025 ORCR, so there is no closing rank to compare.

The matrix has ten category columns. Almost all seats are Open, because private colleges put nearly all of their seats in the Open column; reserved seats cluster in the government and university institutes.

Our sums. The 2026 matrix uses a single OBC column; the 2025 ORCR and the JELET-2026 bulletin still speak of OBC-A and OBC-B. The change follows the new OBC list notified in 2026 — candidates had to declare their OBC class between 16 and 21 June 2026 (JEEB/Reg-68/2026 and its extension). Every seat in the matrix is listed as open to both male and female candidates.

The counselling notification also says the Board will not convert or de-reserve vacant reserved seats into General seats in any round. A reserved seat that nobody claims stays empty rather than going to the Open list.

The matrix lists 59 programmes. Computer science and its offshoots dominate: plain CSE alone is 4,848 seats at 79 institutes, and adding the AI and ML, data science, cyber security, business systems and IoT variants takes the CSE family past 7,500.

The 20 largest of 59 programmes; our sums. The CSE-family figure (7,594) is our sum of CSE, CSE AI and ML, CSE Data Science, CSE Cyber Security, CSBS and CSE IoT from this table.

For a diploma holder the practical point is that the core branches — Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, ECE — each have close to 3,000 seats. A candidate from a civil or mechanical diploma who wants to stay in the same discipline has far more options than the CSE-focused coverage suggests, and in government colleges those core branches often closed later than CSE in 2025.

The JELET-2026 bulletin says last year's matrix is "available on the Board's website", but the only earlier matrix we could find on the Board's site is the Directorate of Technical Education's JELET-2023 matrix. It totals 18,828 seats. No 2024 or 2025 matrix is posted, so year-on-year growth cannot be tracked properly.

DTE, Government of West Bengal, JELET-2023 seat matrix, total line. The two matrices differ in format (2023 has no EWS column; 2026 has one OBC column), so compare totals, not categories.

The 19,336 figure that circulates on aggregator pages does not match either official matrix and gives no year. Use the portal matrix for the current year.

Three limits. The Round 1 total intake is the starting position; Rounds 2 and 3 run on vacancies, which the portal shows separately. The bulletin notes that some institutes have seats that are not offered through e-counselling, so they never appear in the matrix. And the matrix is for the current year only: the 2027 matrix will be declared by the Directorate of Technical Education before counselling, and it can add or drop programmes.