No. Of seats in IITs for 2016

JoSAA 2016 Seat Allocation

Joint Seat Allocation Authority 2016 will announce the intake of IITs, NITs, IIITs and GFTIs later. Candidates can check here JoSAA Seat Matrix that was announced for academic session 2015-2016.

The total number of seats across the participating institutes was 33,365.

● Total number of seats in IITs and ISM-Dhanbad: 10,006

● Total number of seats in NITs: 17,390

● Total number of seats in IIITs: 2,228

● Total number of seats in GFTIs: 3,741

A seat to the highest possible choice of academic program will be allocated to the candidate considering the following factors:

(i) The category [GEN, OBC-NCL, SC, etc.] of the candidate

(ii) The position of the candidate in rank list(s)

(iii) The prioritization of academic programs by the candidate

(iv) The availability of seats in different seat categories / seat quotas for which the candidate is eligible for

(v) The business rules

For the purpose of JoSAA 2016 Seat Allocation, qualified candidates are partitioned into different categories based on (birth) categories, presence or absence of disability and nationality. On the basis of such a partition, each candidate is assigned a category tag as given below-

1. Category tag GEN
2. Category tag GEN-PwD
3. Category tag OBC-NCL
4. Category tag OBC-NCL-PwD
5. Category tag SC
6. Category tag SC-PwD
7. Category tag ST
8. Category tag ST-PwD
9. Category tag Foreign

For the purpose of allocating seats for NITs and Other-GFTIs, candidates are also assigned a state code of eligibility. It means the code of the state from where the candidate has passed class XII (or equivalent) examination by virtue of which he/she becomes eligible to appear in JEE Main 2016.

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