List of IITs in India: All IITs, Locations, Courses and Admission

This is an informational guide prepared by Vidyamandir Classes. It is not an official communication from any IIT, JoSAA or the JEE Advanced organisers. Check the official sources linked on this page before acting on any admission information.

India has 23 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), spread across 22 states and union territories. All 23 admit students to their B.Tech and other listed undergraduate programmes through JEE Advanced ranks and JoSAA seat allocation. JEE Main alone does not give admission to an IIT; it decides who can sit JEE Advanced.

How Many IITs Are There in India?

There are 23 IITs. JoSAA, the body that allocates IIT seats, lists 23 IITs among its participating institutes for the 2026-27 academic year (JoSAA). The number can change if Parliament amends the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961, so check the latest JoSAA list if you are reading this in a later year.

One point that causes confusion: for 2026-27, the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru also participates in JoSAA and admits through JEE Advanced ranks. IISc is not an IIT.

List of All IITs in India

Sorted alphabetically. Three years are shown because several IITs existed under another identity, or operated before they were formally added to the Act.

IIT	City	State/UT	Original institution founded	Began as an IIT	Incorporated under the Act	Official website	NIRF 2025 Engineering rank
IIT (BHU) Varanasi	Varanasi	Uttar Pradesh	1919 (Banaras Engineering College; later IT-BHU)	2012	2012	iitbhu.ac.in	10
IIT Bhilai	Durg	Chhattisgarh	2016	2016	2016	iitbhilai.ac.in	72
IIT Bhubaneswar	Bhubaneswar	Odisha	2008	2008	2012	iitbbs.ac.in	39
IIT Bombay	Mumbai	Maharashtra	1958	1958	1961	iitb.ac.in	3
IIT Delhi	New Delhi	Delhi	1961 (College of Engineering)	1963	1963	iitd.ac.in	2
IIT Dharwad	Dharwad	Karnataka	2016	2016	2016	iitdh.ac.in	77
IIT Gandhinagar	Gandhinagar	Gujarat	2008	2008	2012	iitgn.ac.in	25
IIT Goa	Ponda	Goa	2016	2016	2016	iitgoa.ac.in	Band 101–150
IIT Guwahati	Guwahati	Assam	1994	1994	1994	iitg.ac.in	8
IIT Hyderabad	Hyderabad (campus at Kandi, Sangareddy district)	Telangana	2008	2008	2012	iith.ac.in	7
IIT Indore	Indore	Madhya Pradesh	2009	2009	2012	iiti.ac.in	12
IIT (ISM) Dhanbad	Dhanbad	Jharkhand	1926 (Indian School of Mines)	2016	2016	iitism.ac.in	15
IIT Jammu	Jammu	Jammu and Kashmir	2016	2016	2016	iitjammu.ac.in	56
IIT Jodhpur	Jodhpur	Rajasthan	2008	2008	2012	iitj.ac.in	27
IIT Kanpur	Kanpur	Uttar Pradesh	1959	1959	1961	iitk.ac.in	4
IIT Kharagpur	Kharagpur	West Bengal	1951	1951	1956 (own Act); 1961 Act	iitkgp.ac.in	5
IIT Madras	Chennai	Tamil Nadu	1959	1959	1961	iitm.ac.in	1
IIT Mandi	Mandi	Himachal Pradesh	2009	2009	2012	iitmandi.ac.in	26
IIT Palakkad	Palakkad	Kerala	2015	2015	2016	iitpkd.ac.in	64
IIT Patna	Patna	Bihar	2008	2008	2012	iitp.ac.in	19
IIT Roorkee	Roorkee	Uttarakhand	1847 (Roorkee College; later University of Roorkee)	2001	2002	iitr.ac.in	6
IIT Ropar	Rupnagar	Punjab	2008	2008	2012	iitrpr.ac.in	32
IIT Tirupati	Tirupati	Andhra Pradesh	2015	2015	2016	iittp.ac.in	57

Source: IIT count — JoSAA 2026-27 participating institutes. City and state — NIRF 2025 data. Founding and Act years — Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 and amendments. NIRF — India Rankings 2025, Engineering, Ministry of Education; NIRF 2026 not yet published. Data year: 2025–26.

Admission route for B.Tech at every IIT: JEE Advanced rank, then JoSAA seat allocation. NIRF ranks apply to the institute as a whole in the engineering category; they are not branch ranks and are explained further down this page.

IITs by State

Uttar Pradesh has two IITs; every other state or UT listed has one.

State/UT	IIT(s)
Andhra Pradesh	IIT Tirupati
Assam	IIT Guwahati
Bihar	IIT Patna
Chhattisgarh	IIT Bhilai
Delhi	IIT Delhi
Goa	IIT Goa
Gujarat	IIT Gandhinagar
Himachal Pradesh	IIT Mandi
Jammu and Kashmir	IIT Jammu
Jharkhand	IIT (ISM) Dhanbad
Karnataka	IIT Dharwad
Kerala	IIT Palakkad
Madhya Pradesh	IIT Indore
Maharashtra	IIT Bombay
Odisha	IIT Bhubaneswar
Punjab	IIT Ropar
Rajasthan	IIT Jodhpur
Tamil Nadu	IIT Madras
Telangana	IIT Hyderabad
Uttar Pradesh	IIT Kanpur, IIT (BHU) Varanasi
Uttarakhand	IIT Roorkee
West Bengal	IIT Kharagpur

IIT-wise Facts

The IITs fall into five groups by when they became IITs. Age matters for practical reasons: older institutes generally have larger faculty bodies and more established departments, while newer ones may still be building permanent campuses or adding programmes. Neither is a verdict on quality. For every IIT, admission to B.Tech is through JEE Advanced and JoSAA, and the current programme list is in the JoSAA programme list for the year.

IITs set up 1951–1963

The first five IITs, incorporated under the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 (Delhi by the 1963 amendment).

IIT	Distinguishing facts	Check on the institute site
Kharagpur	First IIT (1951); declared an institute of national importance by the IIT (Kharagpur) Act, 1956	Departments and UG programme list; B.Arch availability
Bombay	Established 1958 at Powai, Mumbai	Programme list including BS programmes
Madras	Established 1959 in Chennai	Programme list including BS programmes; dual-degree options
Kanpur	Established 1959	Programme list including BS programmes
Delhi	Founded 1961 as a College of Engineering; became an IIT in 1963	Programme list; dual-degree options

IITs set up 1994–2001

IIT	Distinguishing facts	Check on the institute site
Guwahati	Created as an IIT by the 1994 amendment; academic programmes began in 1995	Programme list; design programmes are admitted through a different exam
Roorkee	Oldest institutional origin among the IITs (Roorkee College, 1847; later the University of Roorkee); became an IIT in 2001 and was added to the Act in 2002	Programme list; B.Arch availability

IITs set up 2008–2009

Eight IITs that began operating in 2008–09 and were formally incorporated under the Act by the 2012 amendment.

IIT	Distinguishing facts	Check on the institute site
Bhubaneswar	Permanent campus at Argul, near Bhubaneswar	Programme list
Gandhinagar	Campus at Palaj, Gandhinagar	Programme list; curriculum structure
Hyderabad	Campus at Kandi, Sangareddy district	Programme list
Indore	Campus at Simrol, Indore district	Programme list
Jodhpur	Campus at Karwar, near Jodhpur	Programme list
Mandi	Campus at Kamand, Mandi district	Programme list
Patna	Campus at Bihta, near Patna	Programme list
Ropar	Campus in Rupnagar, Punjab	Programme list

IIT converted in 2012

IIT	Distinguishing facts	Check on the institute site
(BHU) Varanasi	Began as Banaras Engineering College (1919), later the Institute of Technology, BHU; converted to an IIT in 2012 and sits within the Banaras Hindu University campus	Programme list; B.Arch and integrated programmes

IITs set up or converted 2015–2016

All incorporated by the 2016 amendment. Several newer IITs operated from temporary campuses in their early years.

IIT	Distinguishing facts	Check on the institute site
Tirupati	Began in 2015	Status of permanent campus; programme list
Palakkad	Began in 2015	Status of permanent campus; programme list
Dharwad	Began in 2016	Status of permanent campus; programme list
Bhilai	Began in 2016; NIRF lists it under Durg	Status of permanent campus; programme list
Jammu	Began in 2016	Programme list
Goa	Began in 2016; NIRF lists it under Ponda	Status of permanent campus; programme list
(ISM) Dhanbad	Founded 1926 as the Indian School of Mines; converted to an IIT in 2016	Programme list, including mining and earth-science programmes

Undergraduate Programme Types at IITs

Not every undergraduate programme at an IIT is a B.Tech. The JoSAA programme list for each year shows exactly which programme, of which type, each IIT offers through JEE Advanced. Use it rather than any general list, including this one.

Programme type	Typical duration	What it is	Notes
B.Tech	4 years	Bachelor of Technology in an engineering discipline	Offered at all 23 IITs
BS	4 years	Bachelor of Science (sciences, and at some IITs economics or other fields)	Offered at some IITs; check the JoSAA list
Dual Degree	5 years	B.Tech + M.Tech (or similar) awarded together	Availability varies by IIT and year
Integrated M.Tech / Integrated M.Sc	5 years	Single integrated master’s programme	Availability varies
B.Arch	5 years	Bachelor of Architecture	Offered at a few IITs; requires clearing the Architecture Aptitude Test (AAT) after JEE Advanced

Some undergraduate programmes at IITs — for example design programmes — use other admission routes and are not allocated through JoSAA. This page covers the JEE Advanced and JoSAA route.

How Does IIT Admission Work?

Short answer: You need a JEE Advanced rank and a seat allocated through JoSAA. JEE Main makes you eligible to sit JEE Advanced (subject to the year’s criteria); it does not give direct admission to any IIT.

The sequence, with the 2026 rules shown as an example. Rules change each year; read the JEE Advanced Information Brochure and JoSAA Business Rules for your year.

1. JEE Main Paper 1 (B.E./B.Tech), conducted by NTA. In 2026, the top 2,50,000 successful candidates across all categories were eligible for JEE Advanced, subject to the other criteria (JEE Advanced 2026 brochure).
2. Meet every JEE Advanced eligibility criterion. The 2026 brochure required candidates to satisfy five criteria simultaneously, including JEE Main performance, an age limit, a maximum of two attempts in two consecutive years, and appearing in Class XII (or equivalent) for the first time in 2025 or 2026. 
3. Take JEE Advanced, organised each year by one of the IITs. Qualifying candidates receive a Common Rank List (CRL) rank and, where applicable, category ranks.
4. Satisfy the Class XII performance requirement for IIT admission set for that year (a minimum aggregate or a top-percentile position in your board). 
5. Register on JoSAA and fill choices — an ordered list of institute-programme combinations. Order matters: you are allotted the highest choice available at your rank.
6. Seat allocation over several rounds. After each round you respond as instructed (JoSAA uses Freeze, Float and Slide options), upload documents and pay the seat acceptance fee by the deadlines (JoSAA).
7. Report to the institute according to its schedule.

Whether you get a particular seat depends on your JEE Advanced rank, your category and seat pool, the programmes you choose and their order, seat availability in that year’s seat matrix, and any programme-specific eligibility requirements JoSAA publishes. Clearing JEE Advanced does not by itself guarantee a seat.

JEE Main vs JEE Advanced

	JEE Main	JEE Advanced
Conducted by	National Testing Agency (NTA)	One of the IITs, on behalf of the Joint Admission Board
Role for IITs	Eligibility to sit JEE Advanced (top candidates as set each year)	Rank used for IIT seat allocation
Also used for	NITs, IIITs and other GFTIs through JoSAA, and other institutions	IITs (and, for 2026-27, IISc Bengaluru) through JoSAA
Official site	jeemain.nta.nic.in	jeeadv.ac.in

Three Different “Ranks”: NIRF, JEE Advanced and JoSAA Closing Rank

These are three unrelated numbers. Mixing them up is one of the most common mistakes students make when shortlisting.

	What it ranks	Who publishes it	What it tells you	What it does not tell you
NIRF rank	Institutions, by category (e.g. Engineering)	Ministry of Education, yearly (nirfindia.org)	How an institute scored on NIRF’s defined parameters in that edition	Branch quality, your experience, or what rank you need
JEE Advanced rank	Candidates	JEE Advanced organising IIT, yearly	Your position among candidates who took JEE Advanced that year	Which seat you will get on its own
JoSAA closing rank	A specific seat (institute + programme + category + seat pool + round + year)	JoSAA, after each round	The last rank at which that seat was allotted in that round and year	What next year’s closing rank will be

What NIRF measures

NIRF scores institutions on five parameter groups: Teaching, Learning and Resources; Research and Professional Practice; Graduation Outcomes; Outreach and Inclusivity; and Perception (NIRF parameters). It ranks the institute as a whole. It does not rank departments, and its research-related parameters tend to reflect the size and age of an institution’s faculty base. Use it as one data point alongside the factors in the choice framework below. In NIRF 2025, institutes below 100 in Engineering were placed in alphabetical bands (101–150 and so on) without individual ranks or scores.

How to Read IIT Cut-offs (Opening and Closing Ranks)

JoSAA publishes, for every round, the opening rank (the best rank allotted that seat in that round) and the closing rank (the last rank allotted it). A “cut-off” is only meaningful when all of these are stated:

• Year — demand and seat numbers change annually.
• Round — closing ranks usually move between the first and last rounds as candidates accept, float or withdraw.
• Institute and exact programme — including whether it is B.Tech, BS, dual degree or integrated.
• Category — OPEN, GEN-EWS, OBC-NCL, SC, ST, and the PwD variants of each are ranked separately.
• Seat pool — gender-neutral seats and female-only (supernumerary) seats have separate opening and closing ranks.
• Rank type — category seats are allotted on category rank, not CRL.

How to use them. Look at the final-round closing ranks for the last two or three years for the exact seat you care about, from JoSAA’s opening-and-closing-rank archive on josaa.nic.in. Treat them as a rough range, not a promise: a seat that closed at a certain rank last year can close earlier or later this year. A figure quoted as “IIT X CSE cut-off: N” without year, round, category and seat pool cannot be relied on.

How to Choose Between IITs

There is no single “best IIT”. The right choice depends on what you want to study and what you want afterwards. Work through these factors for each option you are realistically considering; do not turn them into a score.

1. Preferred branch. Start with what you want to study. Read the department’s curriculum, not just the programme name.
2. JEE Advanced closing ranks. Use recent final-round closing ranks for the exact seat (programme, category, seat pool) to see which options are realistic for your rank range.
3. Programme curriculum. Compare core courses, electives, minors, and project or thesis requirements. Two programmes with the same name can differ a lot.
4. Faculty and research interests. Department pages list faculty and their research areas. Check whether the areas you are curious about are represented.
5. Labs and facilities. Look for the labs and facilities the department itself lists, particularly for lab-heavy branches.
6. Internship opportunities. Look at how the institute’s training and placement office describes internships, and ask current students.
7. Location. Distance from home, travel cost, climate, and proximity to industry or research centres can all matter over four years.
8. Fees. Check the institute’s official fee document for your year, including hostel and mess charges and any remission rules you may qualify for.
9. Campus environment. Campus size, whether the permanent campus is fully operational, student activities, and support services.
10. Career or higher-study goals. If you plan research or a master’s degree, look at undergraduate research opportunities; if you plan industry, look at internship and placement reporting.

IIT vs Branch: What Should You Compare?

At the choice-filling stage many students face a version of this: a seat at an older or higher-NIRF-ranked IIT in a branch they are unsure about, or a seat at another IIT in the branch they want. There is no universal right answer. Ask yourself:

• Do I actually want this branch, or am I choosing it only for the institute name?
• What subjects will I study for four years, and do they interest me?
• What career paths does this branch support, and do they fit what I want?
• What alternatives exist within the institute — minors, electives, interdisciplinary programmes?
• What are this institute’s current rules on changing branch or programme?
• Is this decision consistent with my long-term goal, whether that is industry, research, civil services, or something else?

On branch change. Rules differ between IITs and change over time. Some institutes allow a change after the first year subject to academic performance and seat availability; some have restricted it. Check the current academic regulations (often called the “UG Rules” or “Ordinances”) on the specific institute’s website. Do not choose a branch you do not want on the assumption that you will be able to change it later.

Fees and Financial Support: Where to Check

Fees vary by institute and change by year, and figures copied between websites quickly go out of date, so this page does not publish fee amounts. For each IIT you are considering:

• Open the institute’s official fee structure for the relevant academic year (usually on the academic or admissions section of its website).
• Separate tuition from hostel, mess and one-time charges.
• Check the institute’s tuition-remission and scholarship rules — IITs publish remission provisions for certain categories and family-income groups.
• JoSAA also publishes the seat acceptance fee for the year in its business rules.

Placement Data: How to Verify It

This page does not publish salary or placement figures, because second-hand numbers often mix domestic and international offers, cost-to-company and base pay, or present a single top offer as typical. If placement outcomes matter to your decision:

• Use the institute’s own placement report, annual report, or the graduation-outcome data it submits to NIRF (each NIRF-ranked institute’s data file is linked from the NIRF ranking page).
• Note the academic year, the programme, and whether the figure is a median, an average or a maximum. The median tells you more than the average; the highest package tells you almost nothing about a batch.
• Check how many students registered for placement and how many were placed.
• Prefer branch-wise figures where the institute publishes them.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many IITs are there in India? 

23. JoSAA lists 23 IITs among its participating institutes for 2026-27. The number can change if the Institutes of Technology Act is amended.

What are the names of all IITs? 

BHU Varanasi, Bhilai, Bhubaneswar, Bombay, Delhi, Dharwad, Gandhinagar, Goa, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, ISM Dhanbad, Jammu, Jodhpur, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, Mandi, Palakkad, Patna, Roorkee, Ropar and Tirupati. See the master table for locations and dates.

Which IIT is the oldest?

 IIT Kharagpur, founded in 1951, is the oldest IIT. IIT Roorkee has the oldest institutional origin (1847) but became an IIT only in 2001.

How are IITs different from one another? 

They share an admission route and are governed by the same Act, but differ in age, size, location, departments, programmes offered and campus development. Compare them on the factors that matter to you, not on a single ranking.

How can I get admission to an IIT? 

Qualify for and take JEE Advanced, meet that year’s eligibility and Class XII requirements, then register on JoSAA and fill choices. Seats are allotted by rank, category, seat pool and your choice order.

Which exam is required for IIT admission? 

JEE Advanced, for the JoSAA-allocated undergraduate programmes. JEE Main is the gateway to JEE Advanced.

Does JEE Main get direct admission into an IIT? 

No. JEE Main ranks are used for NITs, IIITs and other GFTIs through JoSAA. For IITs, JEE Main only determines eligibility to sit JEE Advanced.

What is the difference between JEE Advanced rank and IIT cut-off? 

Your JEE Advanced rank is your own position among candidates. A cut-off (closing rank) is the last rank at which a specific seat was allotted in a specific round, year, category and seat pool.

What is NIRF ranking? 

The Ministry of Education’s annual National Institutional Ranking Framework, which ranks institutions by category using defined parameters. The latest edition is NIRF 2025.

Are NIRF rankings the same as JEE Advanced closing ranks? 

No. NIRF ranks institutions; closing ranks describe the last candidate rank allotted a particular seat. A higher NIRF rank does not mean every programme at that IIT closes at a better rank.

How should I choose between two IITs? 

Compare the specific programmes: curriculum, faculty interests, facilities, location, fees, and your goals. Use recent closing ranks only to check what is realistic, not to decide which is better.