Top Entrance Exams in India 2026
Dates, syllabus, eligibility, exam pattern & cutoffs for JEE, NEET, CAT, CLAT and 100+ national entrance exams.
The Management Aptitude Test (MAT) is a national-level entrance exam for admission to MBA and allied programs, with a fee of ₹2,200 for either the paper-based or computer-based test.
The NMIMS NPAT 2026 is the entrance exam for undergraduate programs like BBA, B.Com, and BA Liberal Arts, open to Class 12 students with 60% or higher.
NMAT is a computer-based management entrance exam for admission to MBA programs at B-schools like NMIMS Mumbai, XIMB, and TAPMI, open to graduate students.
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.