PCCOE Pune Cutoff 2025 – The Honest MHT-CET Guide (All Branches, All CAP Rounds)

If you are a Maharashtra parent or student looking at PCCOE Pune (Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering, Institute Code 06175, SPPU), here is the number that actually matters – 98.92 percentile. That is the GOPENS closing percentile for Computer Engineering in CAP Round 1 of MHT-CET 2025. Not 96. Not “high 90s”. 98.92. Rank 3584 out of roughly 4.8 lakh MHT-CET candidates.

Now here is what every counseling agent in Pune will tell you – “PCCOE mein management quota se le lenge, 10 lakh mein ho jayega”. That is the pitch. And most parents sign a cheque before they ever see the actual cutoff table. This post exists so you never need to.

Below you will find every branch, every CAP round, every seat type – pulled straight from the official DTE Maharashtra allotment data and cross-checked on the Shooin Stars College Explorer. No agent. No pay wall. No vague ranges.

What is PCCOE and why does the cutoff look like this

PCCOE is a private autonomous engineering college in Ravet, Pune, affiliated with Savitribai Phule Pune University. It is run by the Pimpri Chinchwad Education Trust. The autonomous status matters – it means PCCOE sets its own exams and syllabus, which is why a lot of recruiters treat it as a cut above the average private engineering college in Pune.

It is not government. It is not COEP. It is the top of Tier 2 for SPPU private colleges, and in the hierarchy that most Pune parents know, it sits just below COEP, PICT and VIT Pune for Computer Engineering. This is why the cutoff stays stubbornly in the 98-99 percentile band round after round.

Here is the single most important thing to understand about PCCOE’s cutoff before you read the table below – PCCOE is an autonomous college, and autonomous colleges do not have the Home University versus Other Than Home University split at all. Regular DTE-affiliated colleges divide their seats into three buckets based on the candidate’s university region. Autonomous colleges like PCCOE do not. Every PCCOE seat is a State Level seat by design. Whether you applied from Pune SPPU, Nagpur RTMNU or Aurangabad Dr. BAMU, you compete against the whole state for the same closing rank. That is why the webapp shows only a State Level column for PCCOE – it is not a reporting gap, it is the actual seat structure for autonomous colleges under the MHT-CET CAP rules.

Branch-by-branch MHT-CET cutoff (State Level, 2025 CAP)

This is the cutoff table every parent actually needs. Because PCCOE is autonomous, every row is a State Level seat – there is no separate Home University or Other column to worry about. GOPENS = General Open State, the most watched category. CAP 1 is the tightest round because everyone still has hope. By CAP 4 the cutoff either relaxes (because strong candidates have moved up) or holds firm (because the branch is in demand).

Two things jump out. First – Computer Engineering, CSE-AIML and IT essentially do not move. They sit in a 98.4 to 98.9 percentile band across all four rounds. If you are at 97 percentile and hoping one of these seats will “open up” in CAP 4, it will not. Second – Mechanical and Civil actually rise slightly between rounds in 2025. Read the column left to right, and do not bet on cutoffs dropping.

Autonomous college seats are State Level only

This is a rule most parents and coaching teachers get wrong, so read this section twice. DTE-affiliated engineering colleges (the non-autonomous ones) divide every branch’s seats into three regional buckets – Home University, Other Than Home University, and State Level. Your eligibility for each bucket depends on where you did your 12th and which Maharashtra university that school fell under.

Autonomous colleges do not follow that rule. PCCOE, because it has autonomous status, declares all its CAP seats as State Level. There is no Pune-region advantage. There is no “Home University cutoff” for PCCOE to compare against. The one column you see in the cutoff table is the only column that exists. COEP works the same way. PICT works the same way. So does VJTI. The moment a college is marked Autonomous on the DTE list, forget the HU-Other-State split entirely for that college.

For you as a candidate this flips a common preference-form mistake. Do not skip PCCOE thinking “I am from Nagpur, it will be harder for me here” – the cutoff is the same for everyone. And do not over-rate your Pune domicile here – it does not buy you a lower closing rank.

Step-by-step admission process

Here is exactly how admission to PCCOE happens. No shortcuts, no “back door”.

That is the whole process. Four steps. No agent adds value to any of them.

Why the cutoff does not budge in later rounds

Parents keep asking why CAP 3 or CAP 4 does not give relief. Here is what actually happens.

The top 3500 or so MHT-CET rankers in the general category are almost all targeting COEP, VJTI, PICT or premier IITs via JEE. When CAP 1 closes, they mostly take their COEP or VJTI seats. The students who get PCCOE in CAP 1 are people who actually wanted PCCOE – they are not treating it as a placeholder. So the CAP 2 vacancies at PCCOE come from the few who got upgraded to a higher college, and those vacancies get filled by the next set of students who also wanted PCCOE specifically.

This is also why you see the TFWS (Tuition Fee Waiver Scheme) cutoff for Computer Engineering sitting at 99.08 percentile in CAP 1 – only students from families under Rs 8 lakh income are eligible, and among them the top rank takes the free seat instantly.

In short – PCCOE is the last stop for a lot of motivated families, not a stepping stone. That is what keeps the cutoff sticky.

Fee structure and what it actually costs

The webapp lists Rs 1,76,000 per year as total fee for PCCOE. That is your official tuition plus development plus lab fees under the FRA (Fees Regulating Authority) notification for 2025.

What it does not include – hostel if you need one (Rs 80,000 to Rs 1.2 lakh per year in Ravet), mess (Rs 40,000 to Rs 50,000 per year), books, laptop, university exam fee, uniform charges, one-time admission charges, and a refundable security deposit.

Realistic total for four years if you are a hosteller – Rs 13 to Rs 15 lakhs. Realistic total for four years if you are a day scholar from Pune – Rs 8 to Rs 9 lakhs. If anybody quotes you above Rs 16 lakhs for the standard FRA seat, something is wrong.

Do NOT pay an agent for PCCOE

If a Computer Engineering seat at 97 percentile sounds impossible through CAP, it is impossible through CAP – and it is also impossible through any agent. The cutoff data is the cutoff data. Walk away from any “guaranteed admission” pitch that quotes a percentile below what you have just read above.

How to stay on top of live seat movement

This is where Shooin Stars earns its place. We are a Maharashtra-specific MHT-CET admission app built specifically for parents who do not want to pay agents and also do not want to sit refreshing DTE circulars at 2 AM.

Inside the app, the Non-CAP Admissions section tracks exactly when PCCOE (and every other SPPU college) opens its institute-level quota, how many seats are available, and what the last-year cutoff was for that round. The Live Cutoff Tracker updates CAP round by round as DTE publishes, so you do not have to decode the PDFs yourself. And the Cutoff Predictor lets you punch in your percentile, caste and gender and see which PCCOE branch is realistically reachable.

Nothing is paywalled. Nothing is gated behind a “counselor call”. That is the entire point.

Should you actually choose PCCOE

Short answer – yes, if you are at 98+ percentile, want Computer Engineering or CSE-AIML or IT, want to stay in Pune, and cannot get COEP or PICT. No, if you are below 96 percentile hoping for CS – look at DY Patil Akurdi, MIT ADT, SIT Lonavala or Government colleges in tier 2 cities instead. Yes, if you want Mechanical at 96 to 97 percentile and want a solid Pune brand. No, if a 4 year budget of Rs 13 lakhs is going to stretch your family – there are equivalent-outcome government colleges at a quarter of the fee.

The decision is not “is PCCOE good” – PCCOE is good. The decision is “does PCCOE match your percentile, budget and branch preference”. Use the table above, not an agent, to answer that – and then confirm your specific category fit on the Shooin Stars predictor before you lock your preference form.

Data sources: closing ranks and percentiles sourced from DTE Maharashtra official CAP Round 1 to 4 allotment data (2025 admission cycle) and cross-checked against the Shooin Stars College Explorer. College profile metadata (fee, intake, affiliation, status) scraped from the Shooin Stars webapp bundle. Last updated April 2026. If DTE republishes any figure later, this post will be revised and the update timestamp above will change.