INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

PREFACE

 

The number of students taking the examination has increased substantially each year with over 485,000 showing up for IIT-JEE 2011. This represented an increase of 30,000 students (6.5%) from 2010.^[8]

The availability of seats in recent years is as shown below:

Institute	Intake (2003)	Intake (2007)	Intake (2008)	Intake (2009)	Intake (2010)	Intake (2011)[9]	Intake (2012)[10]
IIT (BHU) Varanasi	568	686	766	881	1057	1057	1057
IIT Bhubaneshwar			120	120	120	120	120
IIT Bombay	600	574	648	746	880	880	880
IIT Delhi	552	553	626	721	851	851	851
IIT Gandhinagar			120	120	120	120	120
IIT Guwahati	350	365	435	498	588	615	615
IIT Hyderabad			120	120	120	140	140
IIT Indore				120	120	120	120
IIT Kanpur	456	541	608	702	827	827	827
IIT Kharagpur	659	874	988	1138	1341	1341	1370
IIT Madras	554	540	612	713	838	838	838
IIT Mandi				120	120	120	120
IIT Patna			120	120	120	120	120
IIT Rajasthan			120	120	120	160	160
IIT Roorkee	546	746	884	1013	1155	1155	1155
IIT Ropar			120	120	120	120	120
ISM Dhanbad	444	658	705	923	1012	1034	1034
Total	4583	5537	6992	8295	9509	9618	9647
Attendance					455,000	485,000[8]	512,000

From 2008, six new IITs have been opened with 120 seats each, increasing the total number of seats to almost 7000. For 2009, admissions have been made to two more IITs, namely IIT Indore and IIT Mandi (Himachal Pradesh) taking the seat count to almost 8300. As of 2011, with additional courses in several old and new IITs, the total seat count has crossed 9600