Hey aspirant

A sc candidate should get category sc rank within 5k to get admission in top NITs. This is based on previous year pattern. With 16k sc category rank you have less chance of getting admission in nit, gift. But you have a good chance of getting admission in private engineering colleges. For more details on college prediction refer the below link. https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?utm_source=qna&utm_medium=jee_cp

Hello Aspirant,

Hope you are doing well.

As per information if this rank will be considered as your category rank it will still difficult to get high demanding branches like CSE, IT, ECE etc in top NITs.

Cutoff keeps changing year to year. Keep in mind that your chances to grab a seat will vary on the following basis:

• Number of seats available
• Number of students applied for the same branch
• Performance of the students
• The category you belong to etc.

Here are some NITs where you can get admission based on your rank:

1. NIT Meghalaya
2. NIT Srinagar
3. NIT Agartala
4. Assam University
5. Birla Institute Of Technology, Misra
6. Gurukul Kangri Deemed University, Haridwar
7. Institute Of Infrastructure Technology Research and Management
8. Sant Longowel Institute Of Engineering and Technology
9. Mizoram University
10. School Of Engineering Tezpur University

Go through this link to get detailed information about total number of seats NITs :

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/nit-seat-matrix

check out the previous year's cutoff for NITs:

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-cutoff

Use this link to get more information about cutoff for IIITs :

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-cutoff-for-top-iiits

Here is the link of cutoff for GFITs :

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-cutoff-for-top-gftis

Use the below link to get list of other colleges that you can get based on your rank :

https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?utm_source=qna&utm_medium=jee_cp

check out the previous year's cutoff :

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-cutoff

You can also check out marks vs rank vs percentile from the below link:

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-marks-vs-percentile

Hope this information helps you.

Best Wishes!