Rajasthan leads IIT admissions in 2016

PRIDE A report says of 10,576 candidates who got admission, 2005 are from state

: Rajasthan continues to be on the top in admissions to Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), a report said.

Of the 10576 students admitted to 23 IITs in the country last year, 2005 were from Rajasthan, said the Joint Implementation Committee Report released by the IIT Guwahati, which organised JEE Advanced, 2016. Accounting for admissions to 18.96% seats in IITs, the state stood first in 2016.

Rajasthan’s Kota is known as the coaching capital of the country. The report on 2017 admissions to IITs is yet to be released.

According to the report of IIT Mumbai that organised JEE Advanced 2015, nearly 19.7% students from Rajasthan – the highest -- had got admissions to IITs. Of the 9974 seats in 23 IITs in 2015, students from Rajasthan secured 1965.

In 2016, a total of 16733 students from Rajasthan had appeared in JEE Advanced; of them, 5385 were declared qualified, but 2005 succeeded in getting admissions to IITs. Aman Bansal from Jaipur topped the merit list.

Uttar Pradesh stood second in the JEE Advanced 2016 list; 21347 students from UP appeared in JEE Advanced, 5044 qualified and 1372 got IIT admissions.

Though maximum students, who registered for JEE Advanced, qualified and got IIT admissions, were from the CBSE board, those from the Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education (RBSE) came third, the report said. A total of 71006 aspirants from CBSE registered for JEE Advanced 2016, of whom 19566 qualified and 5849 were admitted to IITs. Of 9280 RBSE students who registered fort the exam, 2379 qualified and 768 got IIT admissions.

“Kota has produced a big number of successful candidates over the years; this was the reason why Rajasthan has captured a lion’s share of selections in JEE Advanced,” said Naveen Maheshwari, director of Allen Career Institute, Kota,

More than 1.50 lakh students from all over the country were reported to have taken coaching from Kota institutes last year; almost half of them took coaching for IIT-JEE, and rest for NEET, an exam for medical admissions.

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