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 No one IIT in India?
A. As per the NIRF ranking 2020, IIT Madras is the top IIT in India. According to the ranking, it is also the best university across the country.
Q. Which is the best IIT among the new ones?
A. As per the NIRF 2020 ranking, 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 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 conducted in January 2020 witnessed around 9.5 lakh test takers for only 11,289 seats which is around 1.2 percent 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.