The Indian Institutes of Technology or IITs are the leading engineering schools in India and typically accept only 2 percent of all applicants. The government recently created 8 new IITs, mostly in greenfield projects.
450,000 high school grads took the famed Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) in April, an 18.3 percent increase over the last year. The results were just announced and for the first time final seat selection and counseling will be guided via an online process. In my day, all students had to travel to the nearest IIT for an in person interview.
The IIT Bombay zone produced maximum number of successful candidates with 3145 students figuring in the merit list followed by IIT Madras (2619), IIT Delhi (2264), IIT Kharagpur (1481), IIT Kanpur (1341), IIT Roorkee (1305) and IIT Guwahati (521).
In years past, many graduates of the IITs have emigrated to the United States. The world’s greenest venture capitalist, Vinod Khosla, the #2 person at Kraft Foods, Sanjay Khosla and the former head of consulting firm McKinsey & Co, Rajat Gupta are all IIT alumni resident in the United States.
Last updated: December 26th, 2025
