Pune Institute of Computer Technology (PICT), Pune Admission 2026: Cutoff, Fees & Placements

Domestic UG fee heads shown by PICT

PICT UG fee heads shown on the official fee page

Fee head / route	Amount	Reading note
Tuition fee - Open/FRA structure	₹1,06,956	Academic fee component
Development fee - Open/FRA structure	₹16,044	Academic fee component
Open tuition + development total	₹1,23,000	Before separately listed deposit or other applicable charges
Management seat fee	₹2,00,000	Seat-fee line; not presented here as an all-inclusive payable total
NRI seat fee	₹2,00,000	Seat-fee line; not presented here as an all-inclusive payable total
Against NRI seat fee	₹2,00,000	Seat-fee line; not presented here as an all-inclusive payable total
Caution money / deposit	₹5,000	One-time and refundable, shown separately

International-category fee table

PICT international-category fee structure displayed for 2026-27

Fee head	CIWGC	Management / NRI / OCI / FN
Tuition fee	₹1,04,783	₹1,73,914
Development fee	₹15,717	₹26,086
Other fee - SPPU	₹2,420	₹2,420
Examination fee	₹4,000	₹4,000
Eligibility fee	₹650	₹1,150
Caution money - refundable	₹5,000	₹5,000
Total	₹1,32,570	₹2,12,570

Why two management/NRI figures appear: the UG/FRA page displays a ₹2,00,000 seat-fee line, while the separate international-category page totals tuition, development, SPPU, examination, eligibility and caution-money heads at ₹2,12,570 for its combined Management / NRI / OCI / FN column. They are not interchangeable totals. The written demand for the allotted route is the final payment reference.

Official sources: PICT UG fee structure page (pict.edu/FRA_fee_structure), captured 2 August 2026, and the PICT international admission fee table. Obtain the current route-specific demand before payment.

These fees are not final. The PICT UG fee page carries an explicit note that the tuition fee and development fee are subject to revision based on the outcome of the Review Application submitted to the Fees Regulatory Authority. Treat ₹1,06,956 tuition, ₹16,044 development and the ₹1,23,000 total as the figures displayed on 2 August 2026, not as a settled amount — and budget against the written demand issued for the allotted route.

Hostel capacity

PICT hostel room and student capacity displayed by the institute

Hostel	Rooms	Occupancy	FE / SE Direct / ME-I	SE	TE	Total student capacity
Girls hostel	106	Double	94	60	58	212
Boys hostel	76	Double	86	34	32	152

Hostel charges

PICT hostel charges displayed on the official hostel page

Hostel / room type	Charge displayed	Refundable deposit	Facilities listed
Girls - double occupancy with attached WC	₹1,25,000	₹15,000	Hot water, elevator, internet, medical officer, mess and canteen, indoor/outdoor sports including gymnasium, two-wheeler parking and generator backup
Boys - double occupancy with attached WC	₹1,25,000	₹15,000	Hot water, internet, medical officer, mess and canteen, indoor/outdoor sports including gymnasium, two-wheeler parking and generator backup
Boys - double occupancy with common WC	₹1,15,000	₹15,000	Same facilities listed for the boys hostel page

Official source: PICT hostel page. Confirm availability and the entering-batch demand before relying on a hostel seat.

Read this section as an estimate, because that is what it is. PICT publishes annual fee heads and annual hostel charges. It does not publish a consolidated four-year cost, and we will not present one as though it did. What follows is our arithmetic on PICT's own published annual figures, shown line by line so you can check every step and substitute your own route.

Our computed four-year estimate for a PICT B.Tech, built from PICT's published annual heads

Component	Published annual figure	Our four-year computation
Tuition + development, Open/CAP route	₹1,23,000 per year (₹1,06,956 tuition + ₹16,044 development)	₹4,92,000 — our estimate, assuming the current figure holds for four years
Institute-level / NRI seat-fee line	₹2,00,000 per year	₹8,00,000 — our estimate on the same assumption
Caution money / deposit	₹5,000, one time and refundable	₹5,000 once, returnable at exit
Hostel, double occupancy with attached WC	₹1,25,000 per year + ₹15,000 refundable deposit	₹5,00,000 over four years — only if a hostel seat is allotted every year
Hostel, boys double occupancy with common WC	₹1,15,000 per year + ₹15,000 refundable deposit	₹4,60,000 over four years, same condition

Three reasons this estimate can move, and all three are on the record. First, PICT's own fee page states that the tuition and development fees are subject to revision based on the outcome of the Review Application submitted to the Fees Regulatory Authority — so the ₹1,23,000 base is not fixed for the current year, let alone the next four. Second, fee revisions between academic years are normal and are approved annually, so a flat four-year multiplication is a convenience, not a forecast. Third, a hostel seat is not guaranteed: published capacity is 212 student places for girls and 152 for boys, and a year spent off campus replaces the hostel line with rent we cannot source.

What this means practically: use the Open-route line if you are budgeting a CAP allotment, use the ₹2,00,000 line if you are planning for institute-level or NRI, and treat the hostel row as conditional. Then replace all of it with the written demand PICT issues for the route you are actually allotted, because that demand — not this table and not any other site's total — is the number you will pay. Personal expenses, travel, laptop and books are deliberately excluded here; we have no official source for them and will not invent one.

If you are funding any part of this with an education loan, run the figures rather than eyeballing them — our college fee EMI calculator takes a principal, rate and tenure and returns the monthly instalment and total interest, so you can see what a ₹1,23,000-per-year route costs to service against what a ₹2,00,000-per-year route costs. It computes only on numbers you enter, so nothing in it is a claim about PICT.

Basis: annual figures from the PICT UG fee structure page (pict.edu/FRA_fee_structure) and the PICT official hostel page, both captured 2 August 2026. The four-year column is our computed estimate, derived by multiplying PICT's published annual figures; PICT publishes no four-year total and has not endorsed this computation.

PICT institute-level MHT-CET closing percentile: 2025, 2024 and 2023

Programme	2025 (AY 2025-26)	2024 (AY 2024-25)	2023 (AY 2023-24)
Computer Engineering	99.2156179	99.559279	99.4695690
Information Technology	98.4106279	99.4512575	99.3126473
Artificial Intelligence & Data Science	98.9251126	99.4239309	99.2573143
Electronics & Computer Engineering	98.5686454	99.3776269	99.0609406
Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering	97.5051096	99.2070117	98.9338939

Official source: PICT institute-level cutoff page. The year labels above map to AY 2025-26, AY 2024-25 and AY 2023-24. These are institute-level MHT-CET percentiles, not CAP closing scores.

What the three years actually show. Read the table across, not down. Every one of the five programmes closed higher in 2024 than in 2023, and every one closed lower in 2025 than in 2024 — the pattern is uniform, with no branch bucking it. The movement is not uniform in size, though: Computer Engineering gave up the least ground between 2024 and 2025, while Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering moved the most, from 99.2070117 down to 97.5051096. Information Technology and Electronics & Computer Engineering sit between those two extremes.

What that does and does not tell you. A closing percentile is the score of the last candidate admitted through that route in that year — it is a record of where demand and seat supply happened to meet, not a standard the institute sets in advance. A softer year usually reflects the applicant pool and the seat matrix for that cycle, so a single year's easing is not a trend you can bank on, and three years is a short series. What the table is genuinely useful for is calibration: it shows the band PICT has closed in recently, which is what you need when ordering preferences and deciding how much fallback to build in below it.

Do not carry these numbers into the CAP section. The values above are PICT's own institute-level merit references. The CAP closing scores are a different process, a different seat pool and different numbers — for Computer Engineering the 2025 institute-level value is 99.2156179 while the CAP Round I State-Level Open value is 99.7116474. Both are correct; they describe different doors. Use the CAP Round I 2025 table if you are entering through Maharashtra or All-India CAP, and this table only for the institute-level route.

For 2026 the honest position is that no closing figure exists yet. PICT publishes institute-level closing values after the relevant round completes, so any 2026 percentile circulating before then — on a coaching post, a forum or an aggregator — is an estimate someone has constructed, not a published result. We will add the 2026 row here when PICT publishes it, and the page's Updated date will move when we do.

Completed 2023-24 placement report

PICT placement indicators from the completed 2023-24 official report

Indicator	Reported value	Scope
Overall average package	₹12.5 LPA	Institute-wide
Computer Engineering average	₹14.5 LPA	Branch-level
Information Technology average	₹13.8 LPA	Branch-level
Highest package	₹42 LPA	Headline highest
Placement percentage displayed	93.15%	Completed cycle

Official dashboard trend

PICT dashboard values copied as displayed; percentages are not recomputed

Academic year	Students enrolled	Students placed	Placement percentage displayed	Status
2021-22	730	671	91.91%	Historical dashboard year
2022-23	755	707	93.64%	Historical dashboard year
2023-24	760	708	93.15%	Completed report reference
2024-25	775	680	88.55%	Historical dashboard year; completion label not visible in supplied capture
2025-26	812	608 in trend chart; 610 in headline card	80.66%	Ongoing

PICT 2025-26 ongoing dashboard headline indicators

Indicator	Displayed value	Status
Highest package	₹53.35 LPA	Ongoing
Recruiters visited	165	Campus status

Ongoing branch-wise selections

PICT 2025-26 ongoing branch-wise selections displayed on the official dashboard

Branch	Selections displayed	Status
Computer Engineering	267	Ongoing
Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering	140	Ongoing
Information Technology	201	Ongoing
Total of displayed branch slices	608	Ongoing

Dashboard reconciliation: the three branch slices visible in the supplied chart total 608, matching its trend line, while the headline card shows 610. The separately displayed 80.66% is also preserved exactly; its denominator or calculation method is not stated in the supplied view and it should not be recomputed from 812. These are ongoing dashboard indicators, not a final five-programme placement result.

PICT publishes averages, not a median — and that limits what these figures tell you. Every placement number above is an average or a headline high. An average is pulled upward by a small number of large offers, so it describes the batch's total rather than its middle. Where a median exists it is the better guide, because it is what the middle graduate actually received. Two comparable Pune institutes publish one: COEP reports a ₹10.50 LPA institute median against a ₹12.50 LPA average for AY2025-26, and VIT Pune publishes six consecutive years of medians. That ₹2 lakh gap at COEP is the size of the distortion an average can carry.

We are not publishing a median for PICT because PICT does not publish one, and it cannot be derived — a median cannot be calculated from an average and a highest package. If you are asking PICT about placements, the single most useful question is what the median package was for your branch in the last completed cycle, rather than the institute-wide average.

Official sources: PICT Training & Placement Report 2023-24 and the PICT placement dashboard captured for this review.

PICT is an autonomous, unaided engineering institute in Dhankawadi, Pune, affiliated to Savitribai Phule Pune University. For B.Tech admission, the accepted entrance exams shown on this page are MHT-CET and JEE Main. The current first-year notice places CAP, institute-level and international-category admissions under the schedule and rules published by the Maharashtra State CET Cell.

PICT B.Tech admission routes for academic year 2026-27

Admission route	Accepted exam / selection basis	What the applicant must verify
Maharashtra State CAP	MHT-CET merit through State CET Cell CAP	Category, seat type, branch choice code, round and reporting deadline
All-India CAP	JEE Main merit through State CET Cell CAP	All-India merit number, programme choice code and round
Institute-level	MHT-CET-based institute merit as published by PICT	Official PICT application, merit list, vacancy and reporting notice
NRI / OCI / FN / CIWGC	Eligibility and document basis under the applicable State CET Cell and institute rules	Nationality or sponsorship documents, route fee, seat category and current notice

Official source: PICT first-year B.Tech admission notice for academic year 2026-27, dated 4 May 2026.

Both CAP routes run on the State CET Cell's schedule rather than PICT's own, so the exam calendar governs everything downstream — registration, merit list, option form and round dates. Our MHT-CET guide covers the exam side: eligibility, pattern and the published dates. Use it for the exam, and this page for what PICT does with the score once you have it.

PICT first-year B.Tech sanctioned intake and route-wise seats, academic year 2026-27

Programme	Sanctioned intake	Maharashtra CAP	All-India CAP	Institute level - other than NRI	NRI	OCI / FN	CIWGC
Computer Engineering	240	156	36	36	12	24	12
Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering	240	156	36	36	12	24	12
Information Technology	180	117	27	27	9	18	9
Artificial Intelligence & Data Science	60	39	9	9	3	6	3
Electronics & Computer Engineering	60	39	9	9	3	6	3
Total	780	507	117	117	39	78	39

How to read the total: Maharashtra CAP, All-India CAP, institute-level other-than-NRI and NRI add to the 780 regular sanctioned seats. The 78 OCI/FN and 39 CIWGC seats are supernumerary and are not added into the 780 figure.

Historical 2025-26 State CET Cell seat matrix

This archived matrix is useful for programme choice codes and the previous cycle's allocation structure. It is not a replacement for the 2026-27 PICT notice above.

PICT institute 06271 seat matrix for academic year 2025-26 (historical)

Programme	Choice code	Sanctioned intake	CAP	Maharashtra	All India	Institute	Orphan	EWS	TFWS
Computer Engineering	0627124510	240	192	156	36	48	2	24	12
Information Technology	0627124610	180	144	117	27	36	1	18	9
Artificial Intelligence & Data Science	0627126310	60	48	39	9	12	0	6	3
Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering	0627137210	240	192	156	36	48	2	24	12
Electronics & Computer Engineering	0627184410	60	48	39	9	12	0	6	3
Total	-	780	624	507	117	156	5	78	39

Official historical source: State CET Cell 2025SeatMatrix.pdf, PICT institute 06271, pages 613-617.

PICT's notice advises students and parents not to approach an outside person or agency for admission and warns that the institute will not be responsible for resulting consequences or financial loss.

Official source: F.Y. B.Tech Admission 2026-27 Primary Notice, PICT.

PICT CAP Round I 2025 closing reference - State-Level Open and All-India seats

Programme	Choice code	State-Level Open merit no.	MHT-CET percentile	All-India merit no.	JEE Main score
Computer Engineering	0627124510	791	99.7116474	693	98.9055469
Artificial Intelligence & Data Science	0627126310	1101	99.6203413	783	98.7958236
Information Technology	0627124610	1159	99.6021953	932	98.6644531
Electronics & Computer Engineering	0627184410	1267	99.5764117	1070	98.5290253
Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering	0627137210	2245	99.2992853	1721	97.9505857

How to read the full Maharashtra State CAP category table

State CET Cell code guide used in the supplied CAP Round I PDF

Code or marker	Meaning	How to use it
G / L	General / Ladies	Use the row matching the candidate's seat-gender pool
H / O / S	Home University / Other Than Home University / State Level	Do not compare a Home-University row with a State-Level or Other-Than-Home row
OPEN	Open category	The summary above uses the State-Level Open row; it is not a reserved-category cutoff
SC / ST / VJ / NT1 / NT2 / NT3 / OBC / SEBC	Reservation-category markers used by CET Cell	Read only the candidate's valid category and matching seat pool from the official PDF
PWD / DEF	Persons with Disability / Defence seat markers	Eligibility and document conditions apply; do not infer these values from OPEN
TFWS / EWS / ORPHAN	Tuition Fee Waiver / Economically Weaker Section / Orphan seat markers	Use the separately labelled row where published
AI	All-India seat	Use the JEE Main score and All-India merit columns, not the MHT-CET percentile
Number outside brackets	Maharashtra State General Merit Number or All-India Merit Number, as labelled	Match the merit list and route before comparing
Number in brackets	Merit percentile / score printed by CET Cell	Use the exact exam and seat-type column shown in that row

The table above is a completed Round I reference for the supplied State-Level Open and All-India seat types. The Maharashtra PDF also contains category-specific rows. Those rows must be read from the matching CET Cell code, not inferred from the Open cutoff or collapsed into one misleading “PICT cutoff”.

Official sources: State CET Cell Maharashtra, 2025ENGG_CAP1_CutOff.pdf (pages 1166-1167) and 2025ENGG_CAP1_AI_CutOff.pdf (page 103), institute code 06271.

Most candidates lose a PICT seat at the round-mechanics stage rather than the merit stage. The rules below are set by the Maharashtra State CET Cell for every CAP institute, PICT included, and they are published in the Information Brochure for Academic Year 2026-27 dated 2 July 2026. They are worth reading before the option form, not after.

CAP Round I outcomes and what each one commits you to (Information Brochure, AY 2026-27)

What CAP allots you	What happens automatically	Can you still improve in later rounds?
Your first preference	The allotment is auto-freezed. You must accept it. You then report to the ARC, or self-scrutinise your uploaded documents, and pay the seat acceptance fee online.	No. You are not eligible for subsequent CAP rounds. This allotment is final.
Not your first preference, and you are satisfied	You may freeze the seat through your login, then report to the ARC or self-scrutinise, and pay the seat acceptance fee.	No — once you freeze, that allotment is final.
Not your first preference, and you accept it without freezing	You report to the ARC or self-scrutinise to confirm seat acceptance, holding the seat.	Yes — you stay eligible for later rounds for betterment, while holding the current seat.
Not your first preference, and you do not accept it	The seat is not confirmed to you.	Yes — you remain eligible for subsequent rounds, but you are holding nothing in the meantime.
Any allotment where you fail to report or self-scrutinise in time	Your claim on the seat stands forfeited automatically and the seat is released for fresh allotment.	No — in the auto-freeze and freeze cases you are also out of the subsequent rounds.

Official source: Government of Maharashtra, State Common Entrance Test Cell, Information Brochure for Admission to Under Graduate and Post Graduate Technical Courses (2026-27), dated 2 July 2026 — section on Conduct of CAP Round-I.

The trap, stated plainly: putting PICT Computer Engineering at preference 1 is not a preference, it is a decision. If CAP allots it, the seat auto-freezes and your counselling is over — no Round II, no betterment, regardless of what else might have opened up. That is the correct choice if PICT CE is genuinely where you want to be. It is the wrong choice if you were listing it optimistically while hoping to compare offers later.

The second trap is quieter: forfeiture is automatic and requires no decision from you. Missing the ARC reporting window or failing to complete self-scrutiny releases the seat by default, and in the auto-freeze and freeze cases it removes you from the remaining rounds as well. Diarise the reporting deadline for the round you are in, from the CET Cell schedule, on the day the allotment is published.

Admission checks before submitting an application or payment

Checkpoint	Verify from	Do not proceed when
Application route	State CET Cell or the official PICT admission page	The form is hosted only on an agent's link or personal account
Merit list / allotment	Official CAP allotment or PICT merit/vacancy notice	A seat is promised without a published merit or vacancy process
Fee demand	Official route-specific demand and institute account	Cash, personal UPI or a third-party bank account is requested
Reporting	Current notice, required originals and receipt	The deadline, document list or acknowledgement is missing
Consultant role	Eligibility interpretation, document organisation and preference planning	Anyone claims they can override merit or guarantee allotment

Future Career Guidance can help a student read the route, compare options and prepare documents. The institute's own notice expressly warns against approaching an outside person or agency for admission; no counselling service should present itself as the seat-allotting authority.

Choice filling is where the whole decision gets committed, and it rewards doing the steps in order rather than starting from the branch you want. Work down the sequence below: establish which seat pool you are actually eligible for, then estimate probability against the right historical table, then confirm you can fund the route, and only then decide the order. Each step points at the table on this page that answers it.

PICT choice-filling decision sequence

Decision step	Use this table	Decision rule
Identify the eligible pool	2026-27 intake and seat matrix	Do not compare yourself with a seat type for which you are not eligible
Estimate branch probability	CAP Round I or institute-level historical cutoff	Match exam, branch, category, route and round; never mix CAP and institute-level values
Check affordability	Domestic and international-category fee tables	Budget from the allotted route and current written demand, not a general fee headline
Assess outcomes	Completed placement report	Use completed-year denominators; keep ongoing figures provisional
Plan accommodation	Hostel capacity and charge table	Treat hostel as separately confirmed until an allotment is issued
Lock preference	Current CET Cell option form	Verify institute code 06271 and the full programme choice code before submission

Order the list by what you would actually accept, not by prestige. This matters more than it sounds, because of how CAP Round I resolves: if the system allots your first preference, that allotment is auto-freezed and your counselling ends there — no Round II, no betterment. A preference list is therefore a ranked set of commitments, and anything you would hesitate to join should not sit above something you would happily join. The freeze and float rules spell out exactly what each outcome locks you into.

Build the fallback below PICT, not beside it. PICT's five programmes are all computing or electronics, so a list that contains only PICT branches has no real diversification — a weak year across the institute moves every one of your options together. Pair it with at least one institute you would genuinely attend at a materially lower closing percentile, and check that its fee structure works for you before you list it, not after it is allotted. Our engineering admission hub lists the other institutes we cover, which is a reasonable place to start building that lower tier.

Two mechanical checks before you submit, both of which cost seats every year: confirm the institute code reads 06271 and that the full programme choice code matches the branch you intend, and confirm the seat type you have selected is one you hold valid documents for. An option form is editable until the round's deadline and final after it, so the last useful thing you can do is re-read it once, slowly, the day before the window closes.

Almost every avoidable PICT loss traces back to reading the right number from the wrong table. The figures below are already published on this page; the mistake is pairing them incorrectly. Each row names the specific confusion and the table on this page that settles it.

Common PICT application errors and the official reference that resolves each

The mistake	Why it misleads	What to read instead
Treating an institute-level percentile as a CAP cutoff	For Computer Engineering the 2025 institute-level closing percentile is 99.2156179, while the CAP Round I 2025 State-Level Open closing percentile is 99.7116474. They describe different seat pools, not the same bar.	The CAP Round I 2025 table for CAP seats; the institute-level table for the institute process
Comparing an MHT-CET percentile with a JEE Main score	For the same Computer Engineering seat, CAP Round I 2025 shows a State-Level Open MHT-CET percentile of 99.7116474 and an All-India JEE Main score of 98.9055469. The two scales are not interchangeable.	The column matching the exam actually taken
Comparing PICT's row with another college's Home University row	PICT is listed as Un-Aided Autonomous with Home University shown as "Autonomous Institute", so its CAP Round I 2025 cutoffs appear under State Level (GOPENS) only. A non-autonomous college's Home-University row (GOPENH) is a different seat pool and is not comparable.	The State Level row for PICT, and the matching pool for any college being compared
Adding supernumerary seats into the sanctioned total	The 2026-27 notice shows 780 regular sanctioned first-year seats. The 78 OCI/FN and 39 CIWGC seats are supernumerary and sit outside that 780.	The 2026-27 intake table and its reading note
Assuming the ₹2,00,000 seat-fee line is the all-inclusive payable amount	The UG/FRA page shows a ₹2,00,000 seat-fee line, while the separate international-category page totals its heads at ₹2,12,570. They cover different sets of fee heads.	The written route-specific demand issued for the allotted seat
Budgeting the Open figure and then being allotted another route	Open tuition plus development is ₹1,23,000, with ₹5,000 caution money listed separately — a materially different figure from the institute-level and NRI columns.	The fee table for the route actually allotted, before locking preferences
Assuming a hostel seat follows an admission	The official hostel page publishes finite double-occupancy capacity: 212 student places in the girls hostel and 152 in the boys hostel. Publication of capacity is not allotment.	The hostel capacity and charge tables, plus a separate written hostel confirmation
Quoting an ongoing placement percentage as a completed one	The completed 2023-24 report shows 93.15% placed. The 2025-26 dashboard figure of 80.66% is labelled ongoing and its cycle has not closed.	The completed-year report for outcome evaluation
Locking a preference on the institute code alone	Institute code 06271 identifies PICT, not the programme. Each branch carries its own full choice code in the option form.	The complete programme choice code in the current CET Cell option form
Paying against an unofficial instruction	PICT's own notice warns against approaching an outside person or agency for admission. Cash, personal UPI or a third-party account is not an institute demand.	The official institute account named on the written demand, against a receipt

Official sources: Maharashtra State CET Cell, Cut Off List for Maharashtra & Minority Seats of CAP Round I, 2025-26 (institute 06271); Maharashtra State CET Cell, All India Seats CAP Round I cut-off, 2025-26; Maharashtra State CET Cell Information Brochure, Academic Year 2026-27, dated 2 July 2026; PICT UG fee structure page (pict.edu/FRA_fee_structure), captured 2 August 2026; PICT first-year B.Tech admission notice for academic year 2026-27 dated 4 May 2026; PICT official hostel page; PICT placement dashboard (pict.edu/placement), captured 2 August 2026, and the completed 2023-24 Training & Placement report.

None of these errors is a scoring problem, which is why they are worth checking twice. A candidate with a valid percentile can still lose a seat by filling the option form against the wrong row, and no counselling service — including ours — can reverse an option form once the round closes.

The three institutes Maharashtra candidates most often weigh against each other are PICT, COEP Technological University and VJTI Mumbai. Comparing them from marketing pages is unreliable, so the table below takes every figure from a single document — the State CET Cell's own CAP Round I 2025 cut-off list — where all three appear side by side on the same merit basis.

PICT, COEP TU and VJTI on the same CAP Round I 2025 list — State Level Open (GOPENS), computing branch

Decision axis	PICT Pune	COEP Technological University	VJTI Mumbai
CET Cell institute code	06271	16006	03012
Funding status as printed on the cut-off list	Un-Aided Autonomous	University Autonomous	Government-Aided Autonomous
Computing branch on the list	Computer Engineering (0627124510)	Computer Science and Engineering (1600624210)	Computer Engineering (0301224510)
CAP Round I 2025, State-Level Open closing merit number	791	243	103
CAP Round I 2025, State-Level Open closing percentile	99.7116474	99.8985029	99.9522882
Branch breadth	Five programmes, all computing and electronics	Full-spectrum, including civil and electrical engineering	Full-spectrum, including civil engineering
City	Dhankawadi, Pune	Pune	Matunga, Mumbai

Official source: Government of Maharashtra, State Common Entrance Test Cell, Cut Off List for Maharashtra & Minority Seats of CAP Round I for the year 2025-26, State Level (GOPENS) rows for institute codes 06271, 16006 and 03012. Funding status and choice codes are as printed in that document.

What the merit numbers actually say. On the same list and the same seat pool, VJTI Computer Engineering closed at general merit number 103 and COEP CSE at 243, while PICT Computer Engineering closed at 791. In plain terms, PICT's computing seat was the most reachable of the three in that round — a candidate outside the top few hundred of the state merit list had a realistic path to PICT that they did not have to the other two. That is a genuine argument for putting PICT on the list, not against it.

Where the axes genuinely diverge. The funding status printed beside each name is the single most useful line in the table, because it drives cost: PICT is Un-Aided, while VJTI is Government-Aided and COEP is a state university. We are not printing fee comparisons here — we have verified PICT's fees against its own fee page and have not done the same for the other two, and an unverified fee comparison is worse than none. Check each institute's own fee page before treating cost as a deciding factor. The second real divergence is breadth: PICT lists five programmes and all of them are computing or electronics, so it is a specialist choice, while COEP and VJTI carry full-spectrum engineering including civil. If there is any chance you will want a core branch, that difference matters more than a few decimal places of percentile.

One caution on reading any of this forward: these are 2025 Round I closing values, and CAP closing scores move every year with the applicant pool and the seat matrix. They describe what happened in one round of one cycle, not what will happen in 2026.

This section exists because a page that only argues for a college is not much use during choice filling. The points below are drawn from the same official material used elsewhere on this page, and each one is a reason a genuinely well-matched candidate might still be better served somewhere else.

Candidate profiles that fit PICT poorly, and the published basis for each

If this describes you	What the official material shows
You want a core engineering branch — mechanical, civil, chemical or electrical	The 2026-27 sanctioned intake covers five programmes only: Computer Engineering, Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence & Data Science, and Electronics & Computer Engineering. No core branch is offered, so this is a fit question, not a quality question.
You need an assured hostel seat as a condition of joining	Published capacity is 212 student places in the girls hostel and 152 in the boys hostel, against a sanctioned first-year intake of 780. The hostel page publishes capacity and charges, not an entitlement.
You are entering E&TC expecting the same recruitment volume as Computer Engineering	E&TC and Computer Engineering carry the same sanctioned intake of 240. On the 2025-26 dashboard, which is labelled ongoing, the displayed selections are 267 for Computer Engineering, 201 for Information Technology and 140 for E&TC. The cycle has not closed, so treat this as a live gap to ask about at reporting, not a final result.
The institute-level or NRI route would stretch the family budget	Open tuition plus development is ₹1,23,000, while the institute-level and NRI seat-fee line is ₹2,00,000 and the international-category page totals ₹2,12,570. Hostel adds ₹1,15,000 to ₹1,25,000 plus a ₹15,000 refundable deposit. Ask for the written demand before committing.
Your percentile sits below the published institute-level band and you have no fallback	The lowest 2025 institute-level closing percentile shown is 97.5051096 for E&TC, with Computer Engineering at 99.2156179. No 2026 closing figure exists until the relevant round closes, so these are historical references — but a preference list built only around PICT, with no realistic second option, carries avoidable risk.

Official sources: PICT first-year B.Tech admission notice for academic year 2026-27 dated 4 May 2026; PICT UG fee structure page (pict.edu/FRA_fee_structure), captured 2 August 2026 — the page states that tuition and development fees are subject to revision pending the Review Application before the Fees Regulatory Authority; PICT official hostel page; PICT institute-level cutoff page; PICT placement dashboard (pict.edu/placement) for 2025-26, captured 2 August 2026 and labelled ongoing.

None of this argues against PICT for the candidate it suits, and the completed 2023-24 report — ₹12.5 LPA overall average, ₹14.5 LPA for Computer Engineering and 93.15% shown placed — is a strong record for a computing-focused institute. The point is narrower: the published intake covers computing and electronics only, hostel capacity is finite and stated, and the route allotted decides what is actually payable. A candidate who has checked those three things against their own situation is choosing PICT for the right reasons.