The Indian Institute of Know-how (IITs) has concluded the admission course of and courses have begun. This 12 months, a complete of 17,760 IIT seats had been on supply, of which 17,695 have been stuffed, as per the info shared by the Joint Admission Board (JAB) within the Joint Implementation Committee (JIC) report 2024.
As per the info, this 12 months there was a rise of practically 375 seats from the earlier 12 months (17,385). It has solely been as soon as that no seats have been left vacant, which was in 2019. As per then HRD secretary R Subrahmanyam, 13,604 undergraduate admissions had been accessible for 23 IITs, and all of those had been stuffed. Within the pre-pandemic years, the rely of vacant seats was often increased than it’s now. In 2018, there have been 118 seats had discovered no takers. There have been 110 vacant seats in 2017, 96 seats in 2016, 32 seats in 2015, three seats in 2014 and 149 seats in 2013.
The few institutes the place no seats remained vacant are IIT Bhubaneswar (496 seats), IIT Ropar (430 seats), IIT Goa (157 seats) and IIT Palakkad (200 seats), which incorporates the supernumerary seats. Final 12 months, IIT Goa and IIT Palakkad had zero vacant seats, and IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Indore and IIT Bhubaneswar had been additionally on the identical record.
There are additionally a couple of institutes that declare to have allotted further seats to candidates. These are IIT Bombay, Delhi, Indore, Hyderabad, Kanpur, Madras, Gandhinagar, Guwahati, and IIT Tirupati.
| Institute title | Whole seats (together with supernumerary seats) | Seats allotted on the finish of final spherical (together with supernumerary seats) | Variety of seats further allotted |
| IIT Bombay | 1368 | 1371 | 3 |
| IIT Delhi | 1209 | 1213 | 4 |
| IIT Indore | 480 | 483 | 3 |
| IIT Hyderabad | 595 | 597 | 2 |
| IIT Kanpur | 1210 | 1216 | 6 |
| IIT Madras | 1128 | 1129 | 1 |
| IIT Gandhinagar | 400 | 401 | 1 |
| IIT Guwahati | 962 | 963 | 1 |
| IIT Tirupati | 254 | 255 | 1 |
A couple of IITs have, nonetheless, not been capable of fill to full capability, as per information supplied by JIC Report 2024. The IITs the place lower than 10 seats remained vacant had been IIT Mandi (6 seats), IIT Kharagpur (4 seats), IIT Jodhpur (9 seats), IIT Roorkee (2 seats), one seat in IIT Bhilai, and IIT Jammu (8 seats).
Some institutes corresponding to IIT Dharwad, IIT (BHU) Varanasi, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad and IIT Patna had greater than 10 seats vacant.
| Institute title | Whole seats (together with supernumerary seats) | Seats allotted on the finish of final spherical (together with supernumerary seats) | Variety of seats vacant | Variety of seats vacant in 2023 |
| IIT Mandi | 520 | 514 | -6 | -9 |
| IIT Kharagpur | 1919 | 1915 | -4 | -8 |
| IIT Jodhpur | 600 | 591 | -9 | 0 |
| IIT Patna | 817 | 806 | -11 | -4 |
| IIT Roorkee | 1353 | 1351 | -2 | -1 |
| IIT (ISM) Dhanbad | 1125 | 1107 | -18 | -5 |
| IIT (BHU) Varanasi | 1589 | 1572 | -17 | -18 |
| IIT Bhilai | 283 | 282 | -1 | -1 |
| IIT Jammu | 280 | 272 | -8 | -4 |
| IIT Dharwad | 385 | 374 | -11 | -5 |
After we evaluate the variety of seats left vacant in these IIT with that from final 12 months, we are able to see that besides IIT Mandi, Kharagpur and IIT (BHU) Varanasi, the variety of vacant seats has decreased in all different IITs. Nonetheless, the discount has not been important. One of many causes behind this may be the latest modifications made in IITs department change system.
Beginning this 12 months, six IITs have scrapped the branch-change choice supplied to college students on the finish of the primary 12 months, bringing the overall to 9.
The branch-change choice at IITs permits college students to modify to a brand new engineering stream on the finish of the primary two semesters (first 12 months), supplied they meet the specified cut-off pertaining to the Cumulative Grade Level Common (CGPA) rating within the first 12 months. Every department in every IIT sometimes has its personal cut-off scores to just accept college students from different streams.
Beginning this 12 months, IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Dhanbad, IIT Dharwad, IIT Mandi and IIT Bhubaneswar have stopped this apply. IIT Bombay, IIT Hyderabad, and IIT Jammu discontinued it in 2023, 2021 and 2018, respectively.
Since among the principal IITs have discontinued this apply now, consultants suppose that college students who used to take admission in lesser widespread programs at among the main IITs with the purpose of then altering their department on the finish of their second semester, have now began prioritising second and third era IITs, as a substitute of settling for an undesired engineering department.
“Majority of scholars choose IIT and programs on the idea of the package deal. There are a couple of branches that stay widespread as a result of this corresponding to Pc Science Engineering. Earlier, college students used to choose some lesser recognized programs in first era IIT with the purpose of shifting to their desired department after the primary 12 months. However now that we have now discontinued that apply, college students have as a substitute chosen their desired engineering department within the third era IITs. The issue we now face is that the numbers for the lesser recognized programs have gone down as a result of this,” an IIT Mandi professor informed indianexpress.com.
