Majority of IITians from cities

Updated on: Monday, October 10, 2011

There was a time when IITs prided themselves in managing to draw the best from across the country. Now, say many experts, the JEE has lost its mojo. An analysis carried out after JEE 2011 shows that of the 4.68 lakh candidates who appeared, 86,719 (or 18.5%) had completed schooling in an Indian village. Another 1.35 lakh (28.9%) had done their schooling in towns and 2.46 lakh (52.55%) from cities. The success rate was lowest for those who did their schooling in villages (9.84%); 25.12% of candidates from towns and 65.03% from cities made it to the IITs. The Guwahati zone showed the largest percentage of candidates with schooling in villages, while Delhi had the largest percentage of successful candidates from cities.

Most of those who made it were from CBSE schools, followed by those from a state board school. Out of the 13,196 candidates who qualified, 543 were from ICSE (4.11%), 7,396 from CBSE (56%), and 5,195 from the state board (39.4%). In JEE 2010, among the qualified candidates, 57.93% were from CBSE, 36% from the state board and 5.54% from ICSE.

Majority of IITians from cities

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