IIT Online Admission Process finally Starts - Students started selecting their choices

Updated on: Thursday, July 02, 2015

The IIT online admission process, registration and selecting the institution of their choice from among the IITs, NITs and other centrally-funded technical colleges, was originally scheduled a week ago, began at 3am on Wednesday after the Central Board of Secondary Education released the All India Rank list of IIT-JEE (Main) late Tuesday night.

The IIT online admission and registration process was delayed twice as CBSE was yet to publish the rank list. The board, which conducts the JEE, said it was waiting for announcement of results by certain state boards, based on which it could publish the rank list. For admission, the IITs give 60% weightage to the JEE rank and 40% to board exam marks.

“Around 30,000 students had filled in their choices by noon on Wednesday” IIT faculty members said. Many applicants started filling in their choices on online admission between 3 am and 6 am, soon after the registration started. Students were sent messages regarding the registration process once the rank list was published, an IIT professor said.

A fair number of students chose the two new IITs in Palakkad and Tirupati in IIT online admission which will be operational from the first week of August. Students have five days to lock in their preferences and the seat allotment process begins on July 6. The seat allotment and acceptance procedure will extend till July 26 and both IITs and NITs will start academic sessions on July 28.

JEE (Advanced), IIT-M, chairman Prof S Sundar said "Joint engineering admissions were brought in as many seats were going vacant when students decided to drop the seat when they got into other institutes," "Since there the IITs have no waiting list, seats go to waste if they are abandoned by students." As many as 26,456 candidates are eligible to for IIT online admission to 18 IITs, 31 NITs, 18 IIITs, one ISM and 18 other centrally-funded institutes.

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