Securing anywhere around OBC NCL Rank 2500-3000, you have fair chances of securing CSE at some of the Third Tier NITs (First Tier being NIT T, W, Surathkal & Second Tier NITs being MNNIT, MNIT, VNIT, NIT Rourkela, Calicut).

Some of these third tier NITs are

NIT Jamshedpur, Jalandhar, Durgapur, Surat, Bhopal, Raipur, Kurukshetra.

CSE at most of these NITs have Good Placements with a Fair share of Large, Mid and Small Cap IT/Software/Analytics Recruiters. For OBC NCL Rank in this range, you must atleast target a CRL anywhere between 13-14k, lets consider a Whole as 15k and a Corresponding Percentile anywhere around 98.5.

Hence, for atleast securing 98 Percentile and having a fair share of prospects among NITs, being from OBC Category, you must target a score anywhere above 150+/300. Youll have fair chances of securing CSE at some of the NITs be it third or fourth tier as well as ECE or maybe IT, Electrical at some of the Second Tier NITs.

For your Information, there are CSE at NITs at even lower OBC NCL Ranks, which offer somewhat good placements besides strong education like NIT Agartala, NIT Patna, NIT Hamirpur and Srinagar, as well as some Northeast NITs. Youll get these NITs, like CSE at Srinagar till OBC NCL of around 7k or corresponding CRL of about 25-26k.

Another Good Option is CSE at IIEST Shibpur, which is a GFTI. It has one of the best CSE Faculties in Eastern India after IIT Kharagpur, besides having at par placements with Other Good NITs. Till CRL 20-21k or corresponding OBC NCL 4.7k, youll manage securing even this College.

However, as far as target is concerned, you mist always aim at 98 Percentile for fair share of prospects during JoSAA Counselling.