The Joint Seat Allocation Authority, also known as JoSAA, is an agency established by the Ministry of Education formerly known as HRD Ministry to manage and regulate the admission to 110 tertiary institutes administered by the Government of India.

It is made up of representatives from the ministry's Joint Admission Board and Central Seat Allocation Board, which are responsible for the allocation of seats to IITs and the other institutes respectively.

[2][3] In 2018, the agency announced 100 institutes and two special spot vacant seats by CSAB.

Admission to the Institute of Chemical Technology Mumbai-IndianOil Odisha Campus is also carried out by JoSAA since 2021.

[4][5] According to industry reports, between 3,000[6] and 5,000[7] seats in the institutes have been left vacant following the 2016 counseling process.