List of Top IITs in India 2025: NIRF Ranking, Courses, Seats, Fees & Placement
IIT Madras is the top IIT in India for the 9th consecutive term, as per NIRF Engineering Ranking 2025. Check top IITs in India listed in NIRF Engineering Ranking 2025. Shiksha summarises a list of IITs in India along with their NIRF ranking 2025, BTech seat intake, the number of B.Tech courses offered, and links to important information such as cut-offs, placements, admission process & course fees.
List of IITs in India 2025: The total number of IITs in India is 23. The NIRF Ranking 2025 has been released. As per the NIRF ranking 2025 engineering, 9 IITs are placed in the top 10 engineering colleges in India with IIT Madras as the top IIT in India. To get admission in IITs, candidates have to qualify JEE Mains and appear in JEE Advanced exam.
The first Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) was set up in 1951 in Kharagpur. The IITs are autonomous public institutes of higher education and are governed by the Institutes of Technology Act 1961 which declares the IITs as "Institutions of National Importance". They are considered the premier engineering colleges in India, and it is extremely competitive to get admission into their BTech programs. In 2024, the total number of BTech seats in all the IITs put together is around 16,053. So of all the students appearing for JEE Advanced, less than 1% finally get admission into one of the IITs.
Also Read: Top IITs Cutoff for JEE Advanced: Category and Course-Wise Cutoff for all IITs
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| JEE Main Syllabus 2026 | JEE Main Exam Pattern 2026 |
- NIRF Engineering Ranking 2025: Top IITs in India
- List of Programs offered at IITs
- Entrance Exams For Admission To IITs
- Seats and Courses in BTech Programmes at Top Ranking IITs
- IIT Cut offs for BTech Programmes
- FAQs regarding IITs in India
NIRF Engineering Ranking 2025: Top IITs in India
NIRF ranking 2025 for engineering has been released. Nine of the 23 IITs feature in the Top 10 of the NIRF engineering ranking 2025. The NIRF ranking of engineering colleges is based broadly on five parameters, namely 1) Teaching and Learning Resources, 2) Graduation Outcome, 3) Perception, 4) Outreach and Inclusivity and 5) Research and Professional Practice. The list of 23 IITs and their NIRF ranks stands as follows:
| Name of Institute | NIRF Ranking 2025 | NIRF Ranking 2024 | NIRF Ranking 2023 |
| IIT Madras | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| IIT Delhi | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| IIT Bombay | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| IIT Kanpur | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| IIT Kharagpur | 5 | 5 | 6 |
| IIT Roorkee | 6 | 6 | 5 |
| IIT Hyderabad | 7 | 8 | 8 |
| IIT Guwahati | 8 | 7 | 7 |
| IIT BHU | 10 | 10 | 15 |
| IIT Indore | 12 | 16 | 14 |
| IIT ISM Dhanbad | 15 | 15 | 17 |
| IIT Patna | 19 | 34 | 41 |
| IIT Gandhinagar | 25 | 18 | 18 |
| IIT Mandi | 26 | 31 | 33 |
| IIT Jodhpur | 27 | 28 | 30 |
| IIT Ropar | 32 | 22 | 22 |
| IIT Bhubaneshwar | 39 | 54 | 27 |
| IIT Jammu | 56 | 62 | 67 |
| IIT Tirupati | 57 | 61 | 59 |
| IIT Palakkad | 64 | 64 | 69 |
| IIT Bhilai | 72 | 73 | 81 |
| IIT Dharwad | 77 | Not in top 100 | 93 |
Also Read: MHRD Ranking of Colleges in India
List of Programs offered at IITs
The IITs are best known for offering world-class undergraduate and postgraduate engineering programmes. Some of the popular engineering programmes offered by IITs include Computer Science Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. However, besides engineering, some IITs also offer other design and business management programmes. Here is a list of all the programmes offered at IITs
| UG Programmes | PG Programmes |
|---|---|
| Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) | Master of Science (MSc) |
| Bachelor of Science (BS) | Dual Degree (MSc-PhD) |
| Dual Degree (B.Tech-M.Tech) | Master of Technology (M.Tech) |
| Dual Degree (BS & MS) | Master of Design (M.Des) |
| Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) | Master of Business Administration (MBA) |
| Bachelor of Design (B.Des) | Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) |
| Joint MSc-PhD |
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Entrance Exams For Admission To IITs
Take a look at other entrance exams you need to appear in for admissions to various UG and PG level programmes offered at IITs. For admissions to B.Tech programmes, interested candidates need to appear for JEE Advanced. However, before appearing for this exam, it is mandatory for students to appear for JEE Main.
| Courses | Entrance Exams |
|---|---|
| B.Tech | JEE Advanced |
| B.Tech-M.Tech (Dual Degree) | JEE Advanced |
| B.Arch | AAT |
| BS | JEE Advanced |
| BS-MS | JEE Advanced |
| B.Des | UCEED |
| M.Tech | GATE |
| MSc | IIT JAM |
| Joint M.Tech/MCP-PhD | GATE |
| M.Des | CEED |
| MBA | CAT |
| Joint MSc-PhD | IIT JAM |
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No, there will be no spot round of seat allocation at any of the IITs after the completion of the last round of JoSAA seat allocation.
NO. Barch admisison in the IITs is based on JEE Advanced and Architecture Aptitude Test (AAT). For Barch admisison t the IITs, candidates have to first qualify JEE Advanced and then appear for AAT.
Seats and Courses in BTech Programmes at Top Ranking IITs
All IITs have different seat intakes, the number of courses offered, and cut-offs for those courses. The table below shows a consolidated view of IITs in India along with their BTech seat intake and the number of BTech courses offered.
| Name of IIT | B.Tech Seats | B.Tech Programmes |
|---|---|---|
| IIT Madras (IITM) | 505 | 9 |
| IIT Delhi (IITD) | 799 | 11 |
| IIT Bombay (IITB) | 778 | 8 |
| IIT Kharagpur (IITKGP) | 690 | 15 |
| IIT Kanpur (IITK) | 713 | 8 |
| IIT Roorkee (IITR) | 879 | 11 |
| IIT Guwahati (IITG) | 702 | 10 |
| IIT Hyderabad (IITH) | 294 | 9 |
| IIT (BHU) Varanasi | 876 | 100 |
| IIT Indore (IITI) | 275 | 5 |
| IIT Dhanbad (IITDHN) | 919 | 13 |
| IIT Bhubaneswar (IITBBS) | 273 | 6 |
| IIT Mandi | 200 | 4 |
| IIT Patna (IITP) | 250 | 5 |
| IIT Gandhinagar (IITGN) | 194 | 6 |
| IIT Ropar (IITRPR) | 297 | 6 |
| IIT Jodhpur (IITJ) | 247 | 4 |
| IIT Tirupati (IITTP) | 180 | 5 |
| IIT Bhilai (IIT C) | 126 | 3 |
| IIT Goa | 97 | 3 |
| IIT Jammu | 154 | 5 |
| IIT Dharwad | 126 | 3 |
| IIT Palakkad | 260 | 6 |
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The participating institutes of JEE Main are the colleges that participate in the JoSAA counselling for admission in various Engineering, Architecture and Planning courses. Besides JEE Main participating institutes, many colleges offer admission based on the scores of JEE Main but are not a part of JoSAA. Such institutes organise their counselling process for admission.
There are a total of 31 NITs, 25 IIITs and 19 other GFTIs that participate in JoSAA counselling. The number of seats in these institutes can be checked below. Other institutes which offer admission based on JEE Main scores are from the states which do not conduct their entrance exams for engineering admission and include U.P., Bihar, M.P., Delhi, among others.
According to the JoSAA seat matrix, the total seats in IITs are 17760, while the number of seats in NITs and IIITs is 24229 and 8546, respectively. According to the official data, this year 355 seats were increased in IIT, including 20 in IIT Bhubaneswar, 12 in IIT Bombay, 30 in Kharagpur, 84 in Patna, 30 in Gandhinagar, 10 in Guwahati, 40 in Bhilai, 10 in Tirupati, and 75 in Dharwad. In 2023, the IIT seat count was 17385.
To get admission in IITs, any rank around 5000 AIR is safe (for the unreserved category). However, the rank for reserved category candidates will be higher (in the range of 10,000 to 15,000) for admission to the top IITs. To get a seat in top IIT and the highly sorted course like CSE, achieving a rank within the approximate range of 2000-2500 is typically required. It's important to note that the exact cutoff can differ each year due to factors such as the number of candidates, the difficulty level of the exam, and the availability of seats.
After appearing for JEE Advanced, the next step is to appear for Joint Seat Allocation Authority ( JoSAA) counselling. The authority manages and regulates the joint seat allocation for admissions to 23 IITs, 31 National Institutes of Technology (NITs), 23 Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) and 23 Other-Government Funded Technical Institutes (Other-GFTIs). Admissions to all the BTech programmes offered at IITs are done through this single-counselling platform.
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FAQs regarding IITs in India
Q. How many IITs are in India?
A. There are a total of 23 IITs in India of which 16 IITs are established after 2004.
Q. What are seven old IITs?
A. The seven old IITs are IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Kanpur, IIT Roorkee, IIT Guwahati and IIT Delhi.
Q. Which is the number one IIT in India?
A. As per the NIRF ranking, IIT Madras is the top IIT in India.
Q. Which is the best IIT among the new ones?
A. As per the NIRF ranking, the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad is the best IIT among the new ones.
Q. What is the average starting salary of an IIT graduate?
A. The average salary offered to the graduates of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) is Rs 11 LPA.
Q. Which is the oldest IIT?
A. Amongst all IITs, IIT Kharagpur is the oldest one, which was set up in 1951 followed by IIT Kanpur and IIT Madras in 1959.
Q. Why are IITs not in top 100 global institutes?
A. On the research impact parameter, many of our top Indian institutions (read IITs and IISc) will be in the top 100. We do not score well on perception-based parameters on a global scale.
Q. Is IIT JEE tough?
A. IIT JEE is one of the toughest Exam in the World. The exam witnessess around 9.5 lakh test takers for only 11,289 seats which are around 1.2 per cent of the students.
Q. Is IIT and IIIT same?
A. IITs provide every kind of engineering branch while IIIT as the name says provide only Information Tech related fields like ECE, CS, IT, etc. However, IIIT and IIT both come among India's best colleges.
Q. Which IIT is best for CS?
A. Last year, IIT Bombay was the most sought after IIT for Computer Science & Engineering among top scorers.
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Yes, candidates are required to submit proof of domicile in case availing the home-state quota in NITs. It is only NIT where admission is offered against the Home State quota.
Candidates home state is determined based on the state from which you appear for your 12th board exam and on the basis of the state to which you belong.