Comparing the official closing cutoffs of TNEA 2024 and TNEA 2025 (OC category, same college + branch), some colleges moved a lot. Big moves are worth understanding before you order your choice list — last year’s cutoff is only a guide, not a guarantee.
Biggest risers (OC cutoff, 2024 → 2025)
| College | Branch | 2024 | 2025 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dhaanish Ahmed Institute of Technology, Coimbatore | CSE (AI&ML) | 102.0 | 166.5 | +64.5 |
| Dhaanish Ahmed Institute of Technology, Coimbatore | CSE (Cyber Security) | 101.5 | 164.5 | +63.0 |
| Immanuel Arasar JJ College, Kanyakumari | IT | 109.5 | 163.5 | +54.0 |
| Tittagudi Sengunthar Engineering College | EEE | 117.0 | 171.0 | +54.0 |
| Mahalakshmi Tech Campus, Chennai region | AI & DS | 107.0 | 159.5 | +52.5 |
| Sri Muthukumaran Institute of Technology | ECE | 105.0 | 155.5 | +50.5 |
Biggest fallers
| College | Branch | 2024 | 2025 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trichy Engineering College | Civil | 158.5 | 102.0 | −56.5 |
| Immanuel Arasar JJ College, Kanyakumari | AI & DS | 181.5 | 132.0 | −49.5 |
| Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering (Autonomous) | Marine | 152.5 | 108.5 | −44.0 |
| Sri Raajaraajan College of Engineering | Agriculture | 151.5 | 112.5 | −39.0 |
| RVS College of Engineering (Autonomous) | Bio-Medical | 172.0 | 141.5 | −30.5 |
How to read this (important!)
- A “riser” often just means the college filled with fewer seats last year. When a branch closes at 101–110, it usually means seats were going vacant; a jump to 160+ means demand returned. It does NOT mean the college suddenly became twice as good.
- A “faller” can be an opportunity — a 150+ branch dropping to 110 means students with modest cutoffs got seats there in 2025 that looked impossible in 2024.
- Same college, opposite moves (see Immanuel Arasar: IT up 54, AI&DS down 49) show how branch-level demand shifts matter more than college reputation alone.
- Volatile branches deserve a wider spread in your choice list: include both “stretch” and “safe” options around your cutoff.
Check any college’s 2025 closing cutoff against your own score in the TNEAhelp College-Finder — it now covers TNEA 2017 through 2025, so you can see several years of movement for any college before you commit a choice.
Source: official TNEA 2024 and 2025 allotment statistics (OC category), analysed by TNEAhelp. Moves computed only where the same college-branch closed in both years above cutoff 100.