Indian Institutes of Technology Placement, Ranking and Admission Criteria Details
Indian Institutes of Technology - IIT:
In the year 1946, a committee headed by Mr. N. M. Sircar, the then Member of Education
in Viceroy’s Executive Council, was formed to consider the setting up of Higher
Technical Institutions in India. This committee introduced the concept of Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT) in their report. Following the recommendations, the
first Indian Institutes of Technology was setup in the year 1950 in Kharagpur. On
September 15, 1956, The Parliament of India passed the Indian Institute of Technology
(Kharagpur) Act, Declaring it as an Institute of National Importance.
At the time of the first convocation address of IIT Kharagpur in 1956, Shri. Jawaharlal
Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India said:
"Here in the place of that Hijli Detention camp stands the fine monument of India,
representing India’s urges, India’s future in the making. This picture seems to
me symbolical of the changes that are coming to India."
According to the suggestions in the Sircar Committee report more IITs were to be
established in other parts of the country. Following the recommendations, four campuses
were established at Mumbai (1958), Chennai (1959), Kanpur (1959) and Delhi (1961).
These campuses were scattered all across the country so as to prevent regional imbalance.
A sixth campus was established in Guwahati in the year 1994. In the year 2001, University
of Roorkee was conferred with the IIT status. The Indian Institute of Technology
Act was amended to reflect the addition of new IIT’s.
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Indian Institutes of Technology - IITs
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Over the past few years there have been number of developments towards establishing
new IITs in India. In October 2003, Prime Minister Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee announced
plans to create more IITs by upgrading the existing institutions which have the
necessary potential. In November 2003, a committee headed by Mr. S. K. Joshi was
formed to guide the selection of the institutions which would become the new IITs.
According to the strict guidelines prescribed by the S. K. Joshi committee, eight
states were identified for establishing the new IITs and IT-BHU was recommended
to be converted into Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).
List of Current and New IITs:
List of Indian Institutes of technology – IITs in India is as
follows:
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Name
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Year of Establishment
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City/State
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1951
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Kharagpur, West Bengal
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1958
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Mumbai, Maharashtra
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1959
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Chennai, TamilNadu
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1959
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Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
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1961 (1963*)
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New Delhi
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1994
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Guwahati, Assam
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1847 (2001*)
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Roorkee, Uttarakhand
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New IITs
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Year of Establishment
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City/State
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2008
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Rupnagar, Punjab
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2008
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Bhubaneswar, Orissa
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2008
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Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
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2008
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Gandhinagar, Gujarat
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2008
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Patna, Bihar
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2008
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Jodhpur, Rajasthan
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2009
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Mandi, Himachal Pradesh
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2009
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Indore, Madhya Pradesh
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1916 (2011*)
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Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
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1926
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Dhanbad, Jharkhand
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*Year Converted/planning to convert to IIT
IITs have been created as a world class educational platform. IITs have been striving
to build a solid foundation of scientific and technical knowledge to churn out competent
engineers and scientists. Today, IITs offer undergraduate, integrated postgraduate
and postgraduate degrees in over 25 different engineering, technology and business/management
disciplines. These IITs have well equipped modern laboratories, state of art computer
network, well stocked technical libraries and intellectually stimulating environment
Placements:
In the last two years the IITs were unable to place all its students due to lack
of jobs in the market. But this year IITs have already managed to place almost 80%
of their students from the current batch. They are also receiving record salary
offers and the picture this year is looking bright for the IITs. In general there
is also 15 to 20 % increase in the salary offered across all the sectors as compared
to last year. The primary recruiters for this year’s placements are from Information
technology sector like Google and Facebook along with consultancies like McKinsey.
Facebook has offered a record salary of
65 Lakhs to 4 students from IIT Kharagpur. It has also picked up one student each
from IIT Kanpur, Delhi and Bombay. Microsoft is also not far behind. It has offered
60 Lakh Packages to two students. The Average salary this year has been an impressive
14.5 Lakh annually. There has been active participation from more than 200 companies
across technology, research and development, public sector, financial services,
engineering and processing along with education related sectors.
Rankings:
Technical education in India has expanded exponentially and IITs continue to be
the top tier institutes in India. According to India Today Ranking – 2011, IIT Kanpur
(Rank-1), IIT Delhi (Rank-2), IIT Kharagpur (Rank-3), IIT Madras (Rank-4), IIT Roorkee
(Rank-5), IIT-BHU (Rank-9) and IIT Guwahati (Rank-10) feature in the list of top
Engineering Institutes in India. The IITs have also improved their positions in
the QS Asian University Rankings. IIT-Kanpur holds 36th rank followed by IIT Bombay
on 38th place. IIT Delhi improved its position to be ranked on the 37th spot. IIT
Guwahati also features on the list at 82nd place. IIT Madras and IIT Kharagpur are
the new entrants in the top 50 list.
Admission Procedure:
Admission to most post graduate courses is granted through various written exams
like
Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) for Ph.D, M.Tech and M.S. Courses,
Joint Admission Test to M.Sc (JAM) for M.Sc. and Common Admission Test (CAT) for management studies.
Admission to undergraduate B.Tech and Integrated M.Tech programs are through IIT JEE.
Candidates opting for B.Arch (Bachelor of Architecture) and the B.Des (Bachelor
of Design) program have to clear an aptitude test as well. IIT-JEE is a science
oriented exam testing the candidates’ knowledge of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry.
A large number of students take up this exam and admission in IITs is very competitive.
Students who have passed 10+2 examination of a recognized educational board in the
country with minimum 60% marks are only eligible to take admission in IITs through
IIT-JEE. For SC, ST and Physically Disabled the minimum aggregate marks should be
55%.
Earlier the minimum qualifying marks or cutoffs varied from year to year as the
cutoffs were worked out after calculating the average of marks scored by all the
candidates who wrote the exam. But for the year 2012, candidates aspiring to crack
IIT-JEE will have to score at least 10% marks in individual subject and a minimum
aggregate of 35% to qualify for admission to Indian Institutes of technology - IITs.
For OBC subjective cutoffs are 9% and overall cutoff should be 31.5%. For SC and
ST category subjective cutoff is 5% and overall cutoff is 17.5%
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