JEE Main: Over the last five years, the opening cut-off for BTech in Electrical Engineering has been over 1000 rank for open category, with an exception in 2021 and 2019 - when the cutoff was in the range of 750 to 800 rank. The JEE cut-off for open female category used to be within 3000 rank in the years 2019 and 2020, but has been above the 3000 rank since then. Similarly, EWS category which was under 100 ranks in 2019 and under 200 in 2020 has been over 200 since 2021, and is now reaching nearly 300 rank. IIT Kharagpur Electrical Engineering Cut-off 2023 Category Opening Rank Closing Rank Open 1156 1723 Open (Female) 3438 3949 EWS 296 330 OBC-NCL 637 831 SC 350 497 ST 178 234 2022 Category Opening Rank Closing Rank Open 1028 1666 Open (Female) 3052 3676 EWS 284 320 OBC-NCL 590 786 SC 311 420 ST 212 278 2021 Category Opening Rank Closing Rank Open 776 1614 Open (Female) 3702 4376 EWS 236 282 OBC-NCL 507 772 SC 253 444 ST 185 268 2020 Category Opening Rank Closing Rank Open 1128 1479 Open (Female) 2099 3137 EWS 194 256 OBC-NCL 452 663 SC 304 374 ST 172 206 2019 Category Opening Rank Closing Rank Open 781 1263 Open (Female) 2443 3245 EWS 88 91 OBC-NCL 406 583 SC 204 337 ST 137 167 About IIT Kharagpur The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur was the first IIT to be established in the country. Electrical engineering has been one of the major departments in the college since its inception. The department has five research groups— Machine Drives and Power Electronics, Control Systems, Power and Energy Systems and Instrumentation and Integrated Electronics and Signal Processing and Machine Learning. These research groups offer five postgraduate programmes in their respective areas. The department has doctoral programme in the areas of Control Systems, Instrumentation, Machine Drives, Mixed Signal VLSI, Power Electronics, Power & Energy Systems, Signal Processing and Machine Learning.