IIT Bombay favourite among JEE top rankers

Continuing the trend of the past six years, top rank holders of Joint Entrance Examination (JEE)-Advanced have chosen Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay over other equally prestigious IITs.

Out of the top 100 students, 64 chose IIT-B in the recentlyconcluded counselling. The second choice was IIT-Delhi with 33 of the toprankers opting for it.

   

IIT-Madras, which has been ranked at top by the HRD Ministryin the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), has been chosen by onlyone student figuring among top 100.

“Last year, out of top 50, as many as 47 opted forIIT-Bombay and rest three opted for IIT-Delhi. Among top 100 rank holders inJEE Advanced 2018, a total of 59 out of top 100 opted for IIT-Bombay, 30 forIIT-Delhi and six for IIT-Madras.

“This year, however, IIT-Madras has followed further withonly one taker in top 100, despite the climb in NIRF ranking,” a seniorofficial of IIT Bombay said.

According to an official data, a total of 2,02,768candidates filled 2,24,89,623 choices in the Joint Seat Allocation Authority(JoSAA) counselling for admission to 107 offered programmes by 107 institutesacross India, including 23 IITs, 31 NITs, 25 IIITs and 28 othergovernment-funded institutes.The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) 2019has been set up by the HRD Ministry to manage and regulate the joint seatallocation for admissions to 107 institutes for the academic year 2019-20,including 23 IITs, 31 NITs, 25 IIITs and 28 other government-funded technical institutes.

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