PICT NIRF Ranking 2026 — What It Means, Cutoffs, Fees & Placements

Pune Institute of Computer Technology occupies an unusual position: its NIRF rank understates it, and its MHT-CET cutoff tells the truer story. PICT closes CSE admissions around the 99 percentile — second only to COEP in Pune and above several institutions that rank higher nationally. That gap exists because of how NIRF is constructed. NIRF weights research output, doctoral programmes, faculty qualifications and perception heavily alongside graduation outcomes. An institution focused on producing strong undergraduate engineers, with a comparatively small research footprint, will rank below one that publishes more, even where undergraduate placement outcomes are equal or better. PICT is a clear example of that pattern. What undergraduates actually get at PICT is a long-established reputation for software engineering, a competitive peer group that raises the level of everyone in it, and aided-college fees of ₹1.2L to ₹1.5L a year against average placements in the ₹9–10 LPA band. On a cost-to-outcome basis that is among the strongest propositions in the city, second only to COEP. Verify the current NIRF position and any figures on the official NIRF and institute pages for the year you are applying, since ranks and cutoffs both move.