IIT JEE 2009 Results announced

Updated on: Monday, May 25, 2009

New Delhi: The Indian Institutes of Technology have announced the result of the Joint Entrance Examination 2009 held on April 12

A total of 384,977 students appeared for JEE 2009 for admissions to undergraduate courses in the fifteen IITs, IT-BHU and ISMU Dhanbad, for admission to nearly 6,000 seats in 15 IITs.

10035 candidates have qualified to seek admission for 8295 seats in the IITs at Bhubaneswar, Bombay, Delhi, Gandhinagar, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, Mandi (H.P.), Patna, Punjab, Rajasthan and Roorkee, IT-BHU Varanasi and ISMU Dhanbad.

Nitin Jain from IIT Delhi Zone topped this year's All India list of successful candidates.

In 2008, out of 311,258 candidates who wrote the examination, 8652 candidates were declared qualified to seek admission for 6872 seats in IITs at Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee, some proposed new IITs, IT-BHU, Varanasi and ISMU Dhanbad.

This year, admissions will also be made to IIT Indore and IIT Himachal Pradesh - each having 120 seats. The counselling of successful candidates will be held from June 9 to 16.

IITs located at Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee and IT-BHU, Varanasi and ISMU, Dhanbad will reserve 18 percent of the total seats for OBC candidates this year. The newly setup IITs at Bhubaneshwar, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, Patna, Punjab and Rajasthan will reserve 27 percent seats for the OBC candidates.

Kalvimalar

IIT JEE 2009 Results announced

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