Hello Buddy! Hope you're doing good.

With your rank of 176867, there's possibility of getting a seat in lower NIT with lower branch upto 6-7 rounds of JOSAA Counselling . For better branch opportunity you can opy for CSAB Counselling or better you can go through your state counselling. If you want to take GFTI then you can move forward through that for core branches or any other lower branches. With your rank you might get :-

- Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University,SRINAGAR

- Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, BILASPUR

-National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship & Management, SONIPAT

- National Institute of Foundry & Forge Technology, HATIA

- Tezpur University, TEZPUR

- Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, KATRA

- Gurukul Kangri Vaishwavidyalaya, HARIDWAR

If you are not taking GFTI, or do not participate in your state counselling, you could apply for some private colleges. You can use college predictor tool given below.

https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?icn=QnA&ic

Hope this will help you.

ALL THE BEST! WORK HARD !!