Hi aspirant,

Yout friend is getting 178 marks. According to previous year rank vs marks analysis corresponding to this mark he will be getting 99.5 percentile approximately. With this percentile the common Rank list (CRL) would be around 5,000. Yes owing to this rank your friend will get Computer science engineering (CSE) in NITs and IIITs. To predict the college with CSE branch based on this score you xan use the following college predictor tool: https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?icn=QnA&ici=qna_answer

Hope it helps you.