How Many IITs in India? List of All 23 IITs

How many IIT in India are there? There are 23 IITs in India in 2026. Together they offer 18,826 seats in the JoSAA 2026 seat matrix.

This page also answers how many IIT seats in India are open in 2026 and how many colleges of IIT in India you can apply to. It covers the list of IITs, 2026 fees and cut-offs, placements and which IIT suits your rank. All facts come from official sources.

How many IIT in India are there today?

The answer to how many IIT in India is 23, and it has been 23 since the 2016 amendment to the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961. All 23 are autonomous institutes of national importance, and they admit undergraduates through JEE Advanced and JoSAA.

How many IIT in India are there according to official sources?

The JEE Advanced 2026 brochure says: "At present, there are twenty-three IITs across the country." The IIT Council website and JoSAA 2026 list the same 23 institutes. JoSAA gives them institute codes 101 to 123.

How many colleges of IIT in India are there?

There are no affiliated colleges of IIT in India, so the count is 23. Each IIT is a separate institute and not a college under a bigger university.

Some private colleges and coaching centres use "IIT" in their names. If an institute is not in the list below, it is not an IIT.

How many IIT institute in India are different from NITs and IIITs?

JoSAA 2026 has 138 institutes, and only 23 of them are IITs. So how many IIT institute in India can you reach through JEE Advanced? Only these 23. NITs and IIITs sit in the same counselling, which causes most of the confusion. The list of NIT colleges in India is also part of JoSAA counselling. The table shows how they differ.

JoSAA also lists IISc Bengaluru and IIEST Shibpur, one each. IISc is not an IIT. Its 125 seats are on the same JoSAA seat page, so do not add them to the IIT total.

Now that you know how many IITs are there in India, the next question is which 23 institutes they are.

What is the complete list of IITs in India?

The table answers how many colleges of IIT in India there are, by name, with the state and the year each became an IIT. The years come from the IIT Council history, the IIT (BHU) website and the 2016 amendment to the IIT Act.

IIT Roorkee began as a technical institute in 1847, and IIT (BHU) traces its roots to 1919.

How many IIT in India are there in each state?

The 23 IITs are in 22 states and union territories. Uttar Pradesh is the only one with two, IIT Kanpur and IIT (BHU) Varanasi.

Which was the first IIT in India?

IIT Kharagpur was the first IIT. The IIT Council says it was set up in May 1950 and formally inaugurated on 18 August 1951.

How many IIT in India were there before 2014 and after 2014?

The answer to how many IIT in India there are changed in 2016: there were 16 IITs by 2014, and there are 23 now. The timeline shows each step.

How many IIT in India are older IITs and how many are newer?

Seven IITs are older IITs and 16 are newer IITs. The seven older IITs hold 9,234 of the 18,826 seats, which is about 49%, and the newer IITs hold the rest.

Are there IITs outside India?

IIT Madras has an offshore campus in Zanzibar, Tanzania, and IIT Delhi has one in Abu Dhabi, UAE. These are overseas campuses of existing IITs. They do not change how many IIT institute in India there are, and JoSAA seats do not include them. Check each campus website for its own admission route.

The next question is how many seats these 23 institutes have.

How many IIT seats in India are there in 2026?

In case you want to know exactly how many IIT seats in India are there in 2026, the answer is 18,826, as per the JoSAA 2026 seat matrix. This includes 3,776 female-only seats, as per the JEE Advanced 2026 report.

Last year, the answer to how many IIT seats in India was 18,160, so the 2026 total is 666 more. Many pages still say 16,000 or 17,000 seats, so check the year before you rely on any figure.

IIT Kharagpur has the most seats and IIT Goa has the fewest. The table lists every IIT in order of seats.

The programmes column counts the programmes listed in the JoSAA 2026 matrix. IIT Patna lists many programmes, but few seats in each.

How many IIT seats in India are for each category?

The JEE Advanced brochure sets the reservation, which decides how many IIT seats in India go to each category. GEN-EWS gets 10% of seats, OBC-NCL gets 27%, SC gets 15% and ST gets 7.5%. Candidates with disability (PwD) get a further 5% across these groups. The rest of the seats are open to all.

Is 18,826 the number of students who join IITs?

No. 18,826 is the number of seats offered in the JoSAA matrix. The number of students who join can differ, because some candidates leave seats during or after counselling.

How many students qualified in JEE Advanced 2026?

In JEE Advanced 2026, 56,880 candidates qualified out of 1,87,389 who registered, as per the official result press release of 01 June 2026.

There were 18,826 IIT seats, so about 3 qualified candidates were there for each seat. Counted on registrations, it is about 10 candidates for each seat. The topper scored 330 out of 360 marks and had CRL 1.

How many girls get seats in the IITs?

In 2026, 3,814 female candidates were allotted IIT seats, which is 20.22% of the 18,861 seats allotted in the final round. The JEE Advanced 2026 report gives these numbers. The JoSAA business rules need every IIT to have at least 20% females in its undergraduate programmes across different types of engineering. The 3,776 female-only seats include supernumerary seats, which are extra seats added to reach that 20%. A vacant female-only seat is not given to a male candidate.

How many IIT in India will there be in 2027, and will seats grow?

No new IIT is announced, so how many IIT in India there are stays at 23. The student strength will grow at five newer IITs. The Union Cabinet approved this expansion on 07 May 2025 for Tirupati, Palakkad, Bhilai, Jammu and Dharwad. The plan costs ₹11,828.79 crore from 2025-26 to 2028-29 and raises their student strength from 7,111 to 13,687, which is 6,576 more students. The figure counts B.Tech, postgraduate and PhD students together, so it is not the same as new B.Tech seats.

The Union Budget 2026-27 speech of 01 February 2026 does not announce a new IIT. The JoSAA 2027 seat matrix will show how many B.Tech seats each IIT offers next year.

You now know how many IITs are there in India and how many seats they have. The next question is what each IIT costs and what rank it needed in 2026.

What are the fees and cut-offs of all 23 IITs?

The tables below give the B.Tech tuition fee and the JoSAA 2026 closing rank of each IIT. Use them to see how many IIT in India your rank could reach, and then read each IIT's page for branch-wise detail.

What is the B.Tech fee at each IIT?

Most IITs charge ₹1,00,000 as tuition for each semester, which is ₹2 lakh a year. This is the fee for General, OBC-NCL and EWS students whose family income is above ₹5 lakh a year. The table uses the fee pages of the IITs and the JoSAA 2026 institute pages.

SC, ST and PwD students pay no tuition fee. Many IITs also reduce tuition by family income: no tuition below ₹1 lakh a year and one-third of the tuition for ₹1 lakh to ₹5 lakh a year. IIT Gandhinagar has its own rule, with a full waiver up to ₹2.5 lakh and one-third tuition from ₹2.5 lakh to ₹5 lakh. In the first semester, General category students paid about ₹1.3 lakh to ₹1.8 lakh in total, as per the fee documents. This includes hostel, mess advance and deposits, and each IIT counts them differently.

What was the JoSAA 2026 closing rank at each IIT?

In Round 5, the final round for the IITs, the Computer Science closing rank was 67 at IIT Bombay and 8,886 at IIT Bhilai. The table shows the Computer Science closing rank and the last B.Tech programme to close at each IIT. The ranks are Common Rank List (CRL) ranks for Open, gender-neutral seats in Round 5. They come from the official JoSAA opening and closing ranks page.

At many newer IITs, the last programme to close is a core branch such as Civil, Materials or Mechanical Engineering. At the seven older IITs, it is a bio, environment, agriculture or design branch.

How many IIT in India had B.Tech programmes open at your rank in 2026?

At rank 5,000, all 23 IITs still had programmes open, and 163 four-year B.Tech programmes closed at rank 5,000 or later. We counted the 253 four-year B.Tech programmes in the Round 5 data for Open, gender-neutral seats. A programme counts when its closing rank was equal to your rank or a larger number.

No Open, gender-neutral seat in a four-year B.Tech programme closed beyond rank 18,637 in Round 5.

What was the Computer Science closing rank for girls and each category?

The tabs show the Round 5 opening and closing ranks for Computer Science and Engineering (four-year B.Tech) at each IIT. The Girls tab shows Open, female-only seats, where the rank is the CRL rank. The other tabs show category ranks for OBC-NCL, GEN-EWS, SC and ST seats, which are not CRL ranks.

For IIT-wise detail, open the fees and cut-offs pages of IIT Bombay (fees, cut-offs), IIT Delhi (fees, cut-offs), IIT Madras (fees, cut-offs) and IIT Kharagpur (fees, cut-offs).

Which are the best IITs in India?

As per the NIRF Engineering Ranking 2025, IIT Madras is the best IIT in India. IIT Delhi is second and IIT Bombay is third. NIRF 2025 was released on 04 September 2025, and NIRF 2026 was not on the NIRF website on 23 October 2026. The table lists all 23 IITs from the NIRF 2025 Engineering ranking.

How many IIT in India are in the NIRF top 100?

Of the 23 IITs, 22 are in the top 100 of NIRF Engineering 2025, and nine are in the top 10. IIT Goa is in the 101 to 150 band, which NIRF lists in alphabetical order without an exact rank. Once you know how many IITs are there in India and how they rank, the next section adds placements, so you can read rank, pay and fit together.

Which IIT has the best placement and salary?

No IIT is best for every branch. Pay depends on your branch more than on the IIT, and each IIT reports placements for a different year and a different group of students. This section gives the latest official figure that each of the 23 IITs has published, with its season.

How many IIT in India publish a placement rate, and what is it?

Ten IITs publish a B.Tech or UG placement rate. It ranges from 80.57% at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad to 95.54% at IIT Patna. IITs do not use one formula. Some divide by students who took part in placements, and others divide by students who registered. So a small gap is not a real gap, and the NIRF table further below counts all graduates of one batch in one format.

How many IIT in India publish average and median pay?

Five IITs publish a B.Tech average for 2025-26. It runs from ₹17.95 lakh at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad to ₹29.62 lakh at IIT Guwahati. Most older IITs publish no institute-wide average. Where an IIT publishes no median, the table uses the median in its NIRF 2026 data for the 2024-25 batch.

How many IIT in India publish a highest package?

Seven IITs have published a highest package in their latest report, and it ranges from ₹52 lakh at IIT Palakkad to ₹2.62 crore at IIT Hyderabad.

How do B.Tech placements compare across IITs for the same batch?

The NIRF 2025 data sheets give one format for 22 IITs, for the batch that graduated in 2023-24. IIT Goa has no data sheet in the 101 to 150 band. Each institute declares its own figures to NIRF. The "graduating" count is for students who finished in four years.

The ten IITs ranked 1 to 12 in NIRF 2025 Engineering report B.Tech medians between ₹17 lakh and ₹21 lakh. Nine other IITs report ₹11 lakh to ₹14 lakh. IIT Mandi, IIT Ropar and IIT Patna report medians close to the older IITs. At some older IITs, many graduates choose higher studies instead of jobs. This count was 333 of 1,102 at IIT Roorkee, 283 of 1,133 at IIT Kanpur and 259 of 990 at IIT Bombay.

Does your branch matter more than your IIT for pay?

Yes. At the same IIT, the Computer Science average was about double the Mechanical average in 2025-26. The three IITs below publish branch-wise B.Tech figures.

In 2025-26, the Computer Science average at IIT Dharwad (₹28.52 lakh) was higher than the Mechanical average at IIT Madras (₹22.0 lakh). Small batches swing from year to year, and only 58 students registered for Computer Science at IIT Dharwad. Treat this as a direction, not a promise.

Which courses close first at each IIT in JoSAA?

Computer Science and Engineering closed first at all 23 IITs in JoSAA 2026 Round 1. A course "closes first" when its closing rank is the lowest at that IIT, because the top-ranked students take those seats. The table shows the first three courses at each IIT, with their Open (CRL) closing ranks, for four-year B.Tech programmes. IIT Delhi's Abu Dhabi campus is not included.

Mathematics and Computing, Artificial Intelligence or Data Science courses were among the first three at 21 of the 23 IITs. The exceptions were IIT Bombay and IIT Tirupati. Mechanical, Civil and Chemical Engineering were not among the first three at any IIT. At IIT Kanpur, Mechanical was fourth, closing at 2,980.

Does the closing rank change after Round 1?

Yes, at some IITs. At eight IITs, the Computer Science closing rank stayed within 12 ranks of Round 1. At six newer IITs, it rose by 480 to 1,069 ranks by Round 5. The table shows the Open (CRL) closing rank for Computer Science in the two rounds.

The eight IITs are IIT Kharagpur, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, IIT (BHU), IIT Delhi, IIT Roorkee, IIT Kanpur and IIT Guwahati. The six are IIT Palakkad, IIT Dharwad, IIT Bhilai, IIT Tirupati, IIT Goa and IIT Jammu. So at the top IITs a Round 1 rank already tells you what is out of reach, while at the newer IITs later rounds reached higher ranks.

Which IIT is right for you?

Decide the branch first, then the IIT, then the city. Your rank decides how many IIT in India you can reach. The tables in this article use 2026 data, and closing ranks change every year, so treat them as a guide and not as a promise.

Which IITs and branches can you get at your rank?

The table groups the 2026 Round 5 closing ranks into bands. A course is open to you if its closing rank is equal to or higher than your rank.

Should you choose a better IIT or a better branch?

If you want software or data roles, choose the branch first. If you want a core branch such as Mechanical or Civil, first check which IITs your rank reaches, because these branches close much earlier at older IITs. The 2026 closing ranks show why. Mechanical closed at 1,900 at IIT Bombay, but at 12,618 at IIT Tirupati. So a Mechanical seat at a newer IIT is open to students ranked ten thousand places lower.

• Software and data roles: compare the branch pay in the table above. Computer Science at a newer IIT can pay more than a core branch at an older IIT.
• Core branches: the older IITs fill these branches with much better ranks, so check whether your rank reaches Mechanical, Civil or Chemical there.
• Location: campus distance from the city matters if you want internships nearby. The IIT cards below give distances where the IIT states them.

What should girls and reserved-category students check?

Your seat group changes how many IIT in India you can reach, because the closing rank differs for each group. For Computer Science, the Open female-only seats closed at 395 at IIT Bombay, against 67 for Open gender-neutral seats. At IIT Madras they closed at 539 against 151, and at IIT Delhi at 733 against 128. The tabs in the fee and cut-off section give category ranks for each IIT.

How can you decide on an IIT in five steps?

1. Write down your top three branches. Include one fallback branch you would be happy to study.
2. Mark your Open rank or category rank against the 2026 Round 5 tables above.
3. List every IIT and branch that closed close to your rank. Include a few that closed above it and a few that closed below it.
4. Compare the pairs on branch pay and city. Do not use fees to decide, because tuition is about ₹1,00,000 per semester at most IITs, as the fee table shows.
5. Fill your JoSAA choices in the order you prefer them, not in the order you expect to get them. The JoSAA steps in the next section explain Float and Slide.

Why choose each IIT? The unique strength of all 23 IITs

Each point below comes from the IIT's own website, report or brochure. Closing ranks and pay are in the tables above, so the cards cover only what is different about each IIT.

Why choose one of the top six NIRF-ranked IITs?

Why choose an IIT ranked 7 to 39 in NIRF 2025?

Why choose one of the newer IITs?

Once you have a shortlist of IITs, the next step is the exam route for 2027.

How to get into IITs in 2027?

To get into an IIT in 2027, you must clear JEE Main 2027, qualify in JEE Advanced 2027 and then take part in JoSAA counselling. The answer to how many IIT in India you can choose from in 2027 is still 23, as per the latest notices. JEE Advanced 2026 was held on 17 May 2026, and IIT Roorkee organised it.

What are the JEE Main 2027 and JEE Advanced 2027 dates?

JEE Main 2027 Session 1 is tentatively planned for 22 to 24 and 28 to 30 January 2027. This is as per the NTA examination calendar notice of 16 September 2026. The JEE Advanced 2027 and JoSAA 2027 dates are not announced.

The timeline shows what is known and what is not announced on 23 October 2026.

Check the JEE Main dates page and the JEE Advanced dates page for updates after NTA and the organising IIT announce them.

Who can write JEE Advanced in 2027?

The JEE Advanced 2027 brochure is not out yet, so the 2026 brochure is the best guide. The table shows its main rules.

The Class 12 years and the age limit move forward every year, so do not use the 2025 and 2026 years or the 2001 date for 2027. Read the 2027 brochure on the JEE Advanced website when it is out. Our JEE Advanced exam pattern page and JEE Advanced registration page will carry the 2027 details.

What Class 12 marks do you need for an IIT seat?

You need at least 75% aggregate marks in Class 12, or 65% if you are SC, ST or PwD. The other way is to be in the category-wise top 20 percentile of successful candidates in your board exam. Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics must be among the subjects, and you need at least five subjects in all. These are the conditions in the JoSAA 2026 Business Rules.

What are the steps to join an IIT through JoSAA?

You join an IIT in six steps after you qualify in JEE Advanced. The steps below follow the JoSAA 2026 Business Rules, and JoSAA 2027 may change some of them.

1. Register on the JoSAA website and fill your choices. Registration and choice filling are free. In 2026, this ran from 02 June to 11 June.
2. Lock your choices before the deadline.
3. Check the seat allotment in each round. JoSAA 2026 had five rounds.
4. Accept the seat. Choose Freeze, Float or Slide, pay the seat acceptance fee and upload your documents.
5. Complete online reporting. If you skip any step, the seat is cancelled.
6. Withdraw only before the last withdrawal date. In 2026, Round 4 was the last round for IITs to withdraw or exit.

Freeze means you keep the seat and leave further rounds. Float means you keep the seat and accept a better choice at any institute. Slide means you accept a better programme only at the same institute. Float and Slide are not available in the last round. If you reject an allotted seat, you cannot take part in JoSAA again for that academic year.

To see the rank and marks you need, read the JEE Main cut-offs and JEE Advanced cut-offs pages.

Can you join an IIT without JEE Advanced?

Yes, but only through a few special routes. The Olympiad routes and the online degrees need no JEE Advanced, while the sports and arts routes still need you to qualify. These are the 2026 routes.

These routes are listed in the JoSAA 2026 document on SEA, FACE and SCOPE admission to IITs.

How many IIT in India offer online or hybrid degrees without JEE?

At least four IITs offer online or hybrid undergraduate degrees: IIT Madras, IIT Guwahati, IIT Jodhpur and IIT Patna. These give a BS or BSc degree and not a B.Tech degree. The table gives the entry route and the fee as published on each IIT's official page on 23 October 2026.

Read the official pages of IIT Madras online degrees, IIT Guwahati online BSc and IIT Patna admissions before you apply.

Can foreign nationals join an IIT?

Yes, foreign nationals can register directly for JEE Advanced without writing JEE Main. They get supernumerary seats of up to 10% of the seats in each programme. The rules are on the JEE Advanced page for foreign nationals. In 2026, 15 supernumerary seats were created for foreign nationals in the IITs.

Sources

• JEE (Advanced) 2026 Information Brochure, IIT Roorkee on behalf of the IITs
• JoSAA 2026 participating institutes list and seat matrix, Joint Seat Allocation Authority
• IIT Council website (iitsystem.ac.in), including its history page, and the IIT (BHU) website
• The Institutes of Technology Act, 1961, and the Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Act, 2016
• JEE Advanced 2026 Joint Implementation Committee report and the JEE Advanced 2026 result press release, jeeadv.ac.in
• JoSAA 2026 opening and closing ranks (Round 5), JoSAA 2026 Business Rules and the JoSAA 2026 document on SEA, FACE and SCOPE admission
• NTA examination calendar notice of 16 September 2026, nta.ac.in
• NIRF India Rankings 2025: Engineering, nirfindia.org
• Union Cabinet decision of 07 May 2025 and Union Budget 2026-27 speech, pib.gov.in and indiabudget.gov.in
• IIT websites and online-degree pages of IIT Madras, IIT Guwahati, IIT Jodhpur and IIT Patna
• JoSAA 2026 opening and closing ranks (Round 1 and Round 5), IIT type, Open seats, All India quota, josaa.admissions.nic.in
• Placement reports and pages of the IITs, latest available: IIT Madras CPC Annual Report 2025-26; IIT Bombay Annual Report 2024-25; IIT Delhi and IIT Kanpur placement press releases of December 2025; IIT Kharagpur placement release for 2024-25; IIT Guwahati Placement Report 2025-26; IIT Hyderabad Placement Brochure 2026-27; IIT (BHU) Varanasi Annual Report 2024-25; IIT (ISM) Dhanbad Placement Report of 30 June 2026; IIT Patna CCDC placement highlights; IIT Bhubaneswar placement 2026 page; IIT Mandi C&P Report 2025-26; IIT Jodhpur Placement and Internship Brochure 2026-27; IIT Ropar UG Placement Report 2024-25 and Placement Brochure 2026-27; IIT Jammu Placement Report 2025-26; IIT Tirupati placement statistics; IIT Palakkad Placement Report 2024-25; IIT Bhilai Placement Report 2024-25; IIT Dharwad placement statistics; IIT Goa placement page
• IIT Indore replies to Parliament questions, 2025-26 and 2024-25, iiti.ac.in
• NIRF 2025 Engineering data sheets for 22 IITs, and the NIRF 2026 data submissions that IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Roorkee, IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Tirupati, IIT Palakkad and IIT Goa published on their own websites
• Home pages, about pages, brochures and annual reports of each IIT, for the points in the section on why to choose each IIT