Top Entrance Exams in India 2026
Dates, syllabus, eligibility, exam pattern & cutoffs for JEE, NEET, CAT, CLAT and 100+ national entrance exams.
The BHU UET entrance exam has been replaced by CUET PG 2024, which admits students to postgraduate programs at Banaras Hindu University.
CUSAT CAT 2026 is the university-level entrance exam conducted by Cochin University of Science and Technology for admission to B.Tech and other undergraduate programs.
The IIHM eCHAT is an online entrance exam for Class 12 students seeking admission to Hotel and Hospitality Management programs at IIHM campuses, testing English, mathematics, reasoning, and general awareness.
Entrance exam dates 2026
The exams whose conducting body has announced a date. Others are listed above without one.
Entrance exams by stream
How the 442 exams on this page break down.
Percentages are each stream's share of the 442 exams listed here. Exams without a stream recorded against them are not counted in any row.
Questions students ask about entrance exams
Answered from what this catalogue actually holds.
This page lists 442 entrance exams — 113 in engineering, 75 in management, 50 in medical, 38 in science. Each one has its own page with dates, eligibility, application process, exam pattern, syllabus, cut-offs and results.
By the number of colleges that accept the score: JEE Main (1,890 colleges), CAT (1,568 colleges), MAT (1,324 colleges), NEET (1,229 colleges), CMAT (1,212 colleges). From any exam page you can jump straight to the colleges that take that score.
Of the exams that have announced a date, the earliest is Joint Entrance Exam Main on Jan 24, 2026. Dates are shown only where the conducting body has published them; the rest are marked as awaited rather than guessed.
A UG entrance is written after Class 12 for a bachelor's programme — JEE Main for engineering, NEET for medicine, CLAT for law. A PG entrance is written after a bachelor's degree for a master's — CAT for management, GATE for M.Tech, NEET PG for medicine. Each exam page states the level so you can tell at a glance which stage it belongs to.
Usually not. Most colleges accept a national or state-level score, which is why one JEE Main or CAT attempt can be used at hundreds of institutions. A minority run their own test in addition. The colleges listed against each exam are the ones that accept that exam's score.