IIT Admission 2023 – Students Gave Priority To Lower Branch Of Top IIT

Lesser Interest Of Students Towards The New IITs

The data released after the end of JoSAA Counselling process of 116 institutes, including IIT-NIT of the country, has revealed that this year also students have given priority to lower branches of top IITs and have shown less interest towards new IITs.

The trend of students is being seen more towards the lower branches of the top seven IITs. Students prefer lower Branches of Top IITs of Bombay, Delhi, Madras, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Roorkee, Guwahati including Chemical, Energy Engineering, Engineering Physics, Production & Industrial, Material Science, Metallurgy, Aerospace, Environmental, Biotechnology, Bio Engineering, Manufacturing, Textile, Ocean Engineering, Mining, Earth Science, Agriculture and Food Engineering over the core branches of other IITs.

These other IITs include IITs established in the year 2012 like IITs of BHU, Dhanbad, Hyderabad, Jodhpur, Rupar, Mandi, Indore, and Gandhinagar. Students prefer computer science branch only in these IITs. Moreover, students prefer the other branches of these IITs only after giving priority to the lower branches of top IITs. After this, students pick core branches of IITs like IIT Jammu, Bhilai, Goa, Dharwad, Tirupati, Palakkad, which opened in the year 2017-18.

Why Students Choose Lower Branch Of Top IITs

Upto AIR 8000, in addition to the core branches of the Top 7 IITs, students give more priority to lower branches of the 7 Top IITs, than the core branches of other IITs core branches because there is a competitive environment in top 7 IITs, due to which students can achieve their all-round development.

In addition to their own branch, students also get the opportunity to take other branches as a minor in IITs due to which student take minor subjects of Computer science to learn coding, and programming to strengthen their profile, as these IITs gives priority to big placement companies.

Due to this, the students here get placement in good companies. Companies also come in more numbers for job placement in these Top IITs as compared to other IITs, which gives opportunity to the children of every field for placement.

Apart from this, the option of changing the branch is also available to the students in the top-7 IITs on the basis of their performance in the first year, due to which many students get upgraded to the core branch and good branches in the second year. In view of this, students take admission in the lower branch as well, giving priority to the campus of top-7 IITs. IIT BHU has provision for branch change after first semester.

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