Required percentage in 12th class to make career in Software Engineering

Hello, I am a 12th class student and I want to know how much percent one needs to score in 12th to do Software Engineering?

[Saksham]

To be in the best colleges of India, the students need to get at least 90+ percentage for the admission in engineering. Also students need to give the IIT-JEE exams to do engineering from the IITs or have to give the BITS exam to pursue engineering from BITS campus.

Courses to do after 12th for becoming Software Engineering
Diploma courses leading to the polytechnic diploma of 3 years duration
UG courses leading to the B.Tech (Bachelor of Technology) degree of 4 years duration.

PG courses leading to the M.Tech (Master of Technology) degree of 2 years duration.

After completing the degree courses one may get the jobs in database management, embedded systems, IT, telecommunication, multimedia, computer hardware & software implementation, computer hardware & software maintenance, gaming, web designing and other related industries.

Top companies to recruit Software Engineers are:

Microsoft
Adobe
Tech Mahindra
Mahindra Satyam
Sun Microsystems
Oracle
Google
Yahoo
Accenture
Cognizant
Cisco
IBM

Top colleges of software engineering in India:

IIT Kanpur
IIT Bombay
IIT Madras
IIT Kharagpur
Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
IIT Guwahati
NIT Warangal
NIT Trichy
Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala
Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (DIT), New Delhi