Methodology & Data Sources
Jobs to Education is built on two original datasets: an official JoSAA cutoff archive and the Career Pulse salary-and-demand pipeline. This page explains exactly where those numbers come from, how we verify them, and when we refresh them — so you can trust (and check) every figure on the site.
JoSAA cutoff data
Our JoSAA College Predictor and rank-band pages run on 10,900+ rows of official JoSAA Opening & Closing Ranks from the most recent completed cycle (2024). Each row is a real, published closing rank for a specific institute, program, category, quota and gender pool — not an estimate or a model output.
- Source: JoSAA's official Opening & Closing Rank (OR-CR) archive.
- Cycle used: the final round of the last completed admission year, because that closing rank is the widest boundary of who was admitted.
- Update policy: we refresh to the new year's rows once JoSAA publishes them after each counselling cycle.
- Verify it yourself: we link the official OR-CR tool on the predictor so you can cross-check any prediction.
Career Pulse: salary & demand data
Salary bands, demand levels and growth figures across our career pages come from the Career Pulse dataset. Each role carries an India salary band, a global band, a demand level, a year-on-year growth figure, relevant degrees, key skills and top employers.
- Source basis: aggregated public salary and market signals (e.g. Glassdoor Trends), reconciled into a single band per role.
- Verification: each role row carries a last-verified date; we re-check bands against live aggregators on a rolling basis.
- How we present it: headline bands are the sourced figures; any finer stage-wise split (fresher / mid / senior) is labelled indicative and flagged for verification against live aggregators.
Our editorial rules
- No fabricated numbers. If a figure is not in a sourced dataset, we do not invent it — we mark it for verification or leave it out.
- Cite the source. Data pages carry a visible source line and link back to this methodology.
- Predictions are shortlists, not promises. Cutoffs and salaries move; we say so, and we point you to the official source to confirm.
- Career-first. We frame education decisions around the career and its ROI, not around selling a destination or a college.
Corrections
Found a number that looks wrong? Tell us via the contact page and we will check it against the source and correct it. Accuracy is the product.
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