List of IITs

Indian Institutes of Technology

Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are autonomous colleges in India which are governed by Institutes of Technology Act, 1961. IITs are declared as ‘Institutions of National Importance’. Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 lists out total 23 IITs located at Bhilai, Chennai, Delhi, Dhanbad, Dharwad, Goa, Guwahati, Jammu, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Mumbai, Roorkee, Bhubaneswar, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, Indore, Jodhpur, Mandi, Palghat, Patna, Ropar, Tirupati and Varanasi. Each IIT is an autonomous institution, linked to the others through a common IIT council, which oversees their administration. The IIT Council comprises the minister-in-charge of technical education in the Union Government as Chairman, three Members of Parliament, the Chairmen of all IITs, the Directors of all IITs, the Chairman of the University Grants Commission, the Director-General of CSIR, the Chairman of IISc, the Director of IISc, the Joint Council Secretary of Ministry of Human Resource and Development, and three appointees each of the Union Government, AICTE.

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As of 2017, the total number of seats in all IITs is 11,032. The IITs had a common admission process for undergraduate admissions, called JEE Advanced from 2013. In IITs postgraduate admissions are done on the basis of GATE. The post-graduate level program that awards M.Tech, MS degrees in engineering is administered by the older IITs which are located at Kharagpur, Bombay, Madras, Kanpur, Delhi, Dhanbad, Roorkee, Varanasi, Guwahati.

In addition to B.Tech, M.Tech and MS programs, IITs also award other graduate degrees such as M.Sc in Maths, Physics and Chemistry, MBA, PhD etc. Admission to these programs of IITs is done through Common Admission Test (CAT), Joint Admission Test for Masters (JAM) and Common Entrance Examination for Design (CEED). IIT Guwahati and IIT Bombay offer undergraduate design programmes as well. The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) and Centralized Counselling conduct the admission process for undergraduate and postgraduate programs respectively in all IITs.

In the below table, we have given you the list of all IITs in India along with their State. Click on the College name to view their college profiles.