IIT Admissions 2022 to begin on September 12; 16,598 seats available

The Joint Entrance Examination-Advanced (JEE-Adv) was conducted on August 28, 2022, and results for the test are expected on September 11.

IIT Admissions 2022 at the premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) across the country are all set to start in less than two weeks. The intake capacity across 23 institutes stands at 16,598 this year. Considering the total seats available for IIT admissions 2022, it’s 360 seats more than the intake capacity recorded across IITs last year. The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) released the official list earlier on Thursday.

New IITs introduce increased number of seats for IIT admissions 2022

According to HT old IITs are still maintaining the total seats from last year, however, the additional seats have been approved in ten of the newer institutes, including, IIT Mandi, Hyderabad, Jodhpur, Patna, Pallakad and Dharwad, among others. The report suggest that an official from IIT Kharagpur informed that most of the older IITs have been asked to ensure zero seat vacancy first, only then opt for increasing seats. Moreover, most of the older IITs have been struggling with space to accommodate their existing students on campus, so increasing the intake capacity is out of bounds. Most new seats have been in the form of new courses added by the newer IITs this year.

From conducting just three rounds of seat allotment until 2015, JoSAA increased it to six rounds in 2016 in order to avoid seat vacancies in IITs. However, in 2017, 2018 and 2019, seven rounds of admissions were conducted and still almost all IITs—old and new—had one or more seats vacant by the end of the common admission rounds. Almost 300 seats had remained vacant after six admission rounds across 23 IITs in 2019 which were re-allotted in the seventh and final rounds.

Since 2020, the admission organising IITs have clarified that all vacant seats were allotted in the last and final seat allotment round, leading to zero vacancies in 2020 and 2021.

JEE Advanced results 2022 likely by September 11, IIT Admissions to begin on September 12

The Joint Entrance Examination-Advanced (JEE-Adv) was conducted on August 28, 2022, and results for the test are expected on September 11. Registrations for admissions to IITs will commence on September 12 and the first seat allotment list is scheduled to be released on September 23 this year.

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