Counselling for IIT courses would begin from June 24. The successful candidates having top 20 percentile in their respective boards and good score in the JEE (Advanced) examination would be called for the counselling.
This year, 14,336 students are expected to be called for counselling. There are 160 seats in Bhubaneswar IIT out of the total 9,885 IIT seats including 4,844 for the general category. The tuition fees is increased from Rs 50,000 to Rs 90,000.
The JEE (advanced) for admissions to UG programmes in the 16 IITs and the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, was conducted on June 2. Around 1.5 lakh students were shortlisted from JEE (Main) Exam for the JEE (Advanced).