Rajasthan Tops in list of IIT Students

Updated on: Saturday, October 10, 2015

iit Rajasthan has emerged on top of the list of states in cracking entrance exam of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology this year, with nearly 20 percent students gaining admission to the 18 IIT belonging to the state. As per a recent report of JEE Advance 2015 by IIT Mumbai, 19.7 percent of those students who secured seats in the prestigious institute belong to Rajasthan.1,965 students from Rajasthan secured IIT seats out of a total of 9,974 seats.

Uttar Pradesh has secured the second position with 1,259 qualifying students, while Andhra Pradesh which topped the list last time, had 776 students; while 770 students from Telangana secured seats this year.

In another interesting trend, 25 percent of the seats, this year, were secured by students from rural areas who have completed their upper primary schooling in Hindi medium as compared to 90 percent seats grabbed by students from urban areas last year. Girls, this year, secured 900 seats in IIT, a share of 9.03 percent as compared to 8 percent of the seats secured in 2014.

The report further said that the fathers of 888 qualifying IIT students practiced agriculture whereas fathers of 232 students were doctors and of 466 students were engineers. The fathers of 1548 qualifying IIT students were involved in business while mothers of 6,690 selected students were housewives with a modest level of education.

The fathers of 479 students were teachers while of 2,989 qualifying students were government employees. A considerable number of students from low earning families have earned seats in IIT this time with over 1,600 students coming from families where the father's annual income is less than Rs one lakh.

At the same time, 1,500 students come from families where the annual income of fathers is over Rs 8 lakh.

As for the education background of parents, the study said fathers of about 1,100 qualifying students are only metric pass (Class 10) while fathers of about 250 are illiterate. The mothers of nearly 900 students are illiterate. The report also mentions that every fifth of the qualifying students had prepared for the exam in Kota.

Rajasthan Tops in list of IIT Students

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