After the first meeting of the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) at IIT Bombay on 2 May 2015, a memorandum of agreement was signed between the Joint Admission Board (JAB), JEE (Advanced) 2015 representing the IITs and ISM Dhanbad and the Central Seat Allocation Board (CSAB) 2015 representing the NITs, IIITs and other technical institutes funded fully or partly by Central or a State government.

• Seat allocation for academic programs offered by 88 Institutes (IITs, NITs, IIITs, GFTIs) will be done jointly through Joint Seat Allocation Authority for the academic year 2015-16.
• The process of joint seat allocation will commence through a common web portal from 25 June 2015.