IIT Bombay gets 61 of JEE’s top 100 ranked, Delhi 30

NEW DELHI: The top 100 JEE finishers seem to have made two clear decisions: IIT Bombay, where 61 of them or nearly 2/3 blocked a seat, and IIT Delhi, who chose another 30. Of the remaining nine, seven have signed up at IIT Madras, while two, Chirag Falor (Rank 1) and Muhender Raj (Rank 4), have chosen to pursue their education in the United States.

At the close of the first round of admissions, a look at the choices exercised by the top 100 ranked reveals that Kharagpur and Kanpur, once considered among the top IITs, have lost popularity. About 30 years ago, IIT-Kharagpur was the preeminent engineering center.

The oldest of the IITs, it did not receive a single top 100 student this year. If the network expands to look at the top 500 or 1,000 students, again Bombay, Delhi, Madras form the top three in the same order, although Kanpur and Kharagpur have considerable representation in this club.

A portion of the two in the top 10 who opted out of the IIT, two more, one between the 301 and 400 ranks and one between the 401 and 500 ranks, have turned down a seat.

Of the top 1,000, nine are looking for other options. “Students, who are clear about the courses they want to join, opt for a NIT or an IIIT if they do not get a place in any of the IITs for that particular branch,” he told JOSAAfaculty.

“We know that toppers choose IIT Bombay because of the quality of education they receive here. This is a melting pot of cultures that attracts students from all over the country; the academic environment, rigor and research make academic life here competitive and we see that since the last 8-10 years a similar number of toppers come to our campus ”, said IIT-B director Subhasis Chaudhari. IIT Delhi Director Ramgopal Rao said: “It is difficult to know why students make the decisions they do, but many follow the trends from the previous year.”

A former JEE president said: “While Bombay and Delhi were still being built, Kharagpur students had already held the top positions in big companies. The students looked at the illustrious students from Kharagpur and ran there. Now this has changed. ”

Among the rest, Roorkee, Guwahati and Hyderabad also have some top 1,000 winners. There are 23 IITs in total with approximately 16,000 seats. Hyderabad, which has launched a cutting-edge BTech program in artificial intelligence and machine learning, is relatively new to the top 1000 matrix.