At your score you will have a wide variety of choices in terms of colleges you can apply to, the complete details of past year trends of closing ranks of different colleges for all the courses are available on the link that has been shared below. Kindly visit the same so as to have a clear idea with regards to colleges that you can opt for.

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/gate-cutoff-for-iits

Hi

To be a good thermal engineer you should be good in thermodynamics, heat transfer, Refregeration, Mathematics, differential equation, fluid mechanics. Many colleges in India offer thermal engineering. But go for good colleges. You can apply for priviate universities, they conduct there own entrance test.

Hiii 

There are lot many factors that would decide the rank category,Date of exam, marks,exam slot so kindly refer the below link to try it

Https://engineering.careers360.com/gate-score-predictor

But you have scored good marks., .For IITs, your GATE score is near about to 800.

Here is the cut off trends of previous year for IITs 

Https://www.google.com/amp/s/engineering.careers360.com/articles/gate-cutoff-for-ce/amp

I would also like to recommend try for college predictor, where as you have quite low marks

Https://engineering.careers360.com/gate-score-predictor

After you get the score kindly use the college predictor

Https://engineering.careers360.com/gate-college-predictor?icn=gate-clgpd-trail&ici=gate-rp_result_page_upper_lin

Regards

Hello  datish,

Below I've mentioned two good books for understanding the topic better:

• Introduction to thermal systems engineering, by Moran, Shapiro, Dewitt, Munson.

• Thermodynamics - An  engineering approach, by Cengel and Boles.

The topics like fundamentals of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics,classical macroscopic thermodynamics and heat transfer are covered well in these books.

Hope this helps and all the very best to you!

Hi Jagadeesh, the cutoff varies every year based on various factors, number of seats available, number of test takers, difficulty level of exams, merit list etc. However to go with the past records, an AIR of 10000-14000 can get a seat in JNTU Hyderabad for thermal engineering, with a score of around 400-500 out of 1000 scaled score. You should have a score of around 30+ i believe to score this scaled score and rank as cutoff. 

Dear Akhil,

For getting into such prestigious universities like osmania and jntuh in your interested branch ie., thermal engineering requires your rank to be around 250. So you must score a score of 75-80.All the best! 

Dear Venkatesh, the minimum required academic qualification for pursuing full time Ph.D in IIT Madras is enlisted here:  

1. You should have a Master's degree in Engineering/Technology with a good academic record or a Master's degree by Research in Engineering/Technology with a good academic record.

2. Candidates with Master's degree in Sciences with a good academic record and of exceptional merit where elihible, for the relevant Engineering discipline and with a valid GATE score or UGC/CSIR NET/NBHM or equivalent qualigiation in the relevant area tenable for the year of registration. 

3. Candidates who have qualified for the award of Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Technology with exceptionally good academic recird in an eligible discipline will be considered for direct admission to Ph.D programme as a regular full time scholar subject to following conditions:

A. B. Tech degree holder of Centrally Funded Technical Institute with a minimum CGOA of 8.0 on a 10.0 point scale or with a valid GATE score.

B. Bachelor's degree holder in Engineering/Technology with 8 CGPA or equivalent from any other University and having a valid GATE score. 

C. Bachelor's degree holder in Engineering/Technology from a reputed R&D organization and having a proven research record. 

Applications are invited at any timr from eligible candidates for admission to Ph.D under regular/part time/external schemes of IIT Madras. Shortlisted candidates will be called for test and interview or interview by the Selection Committee departments from time to timr