IIT Admissions 2025: Seat Allotment Exceeds Official Capacity Across Institutes

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According to the latest report of the Joint Implementation Committee (JIC), many institutes have admitted more students than the approved capacity during the seat allocation process in IIT admission 2025.

According to official data, 18,188 seats were allotted this year against a total of 18,160 approved seats. That is, 28 additional students got admission.

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Where did the seats increase?

In many premier IITs, the allocation was more than the approved seats. For example:

IIT Bombay: 1,364 seats instead of 1,360
IIT Delhi: 1,241 seats instead of 1,239
IIT Kharagpur: 1,923 seats instead of 1,919
IIT Madras: 1,124 seats instead of 1,121
IIT Kanpur: 1,215 seats instead of 1,210

On the other hand, some institutes gave admissions less than the approved capacity. For example, in IIT BHU Varanasi, 1,588 seats were filled instead of 1,589 seats.

Status of Total Seat Allotment

Institute	Approved Seats	Allotted Seats	Difference
IIT Bombay	1360	1364	+4
IIT Delhi	1239	1241	+2
IIT Kharagpur	1919	1923	+4
IIT Madras	1121	1124	+3
IIT Kanpur	1210	1215	+5
IIT BHU	1589	1588	-1
Others (Overall)	18160	18188	+28

Why did the Extra Seats Increase?

According to experts, this situation is related to the allocation process of JoSAA (Joint Seat Allocation Authority). JoSAA often allocates some extra seats to balance the seat withdrawals and ensure maximum utilization.

This trend shows that seat management in IITs is kept flexible so that not a single seat remains vacant.

Trend of Previous Years

2024: A total of 17,760 seats were available, out of which 17,695 seats were filled.
2023: An increase of around 375 seats as compared to a total of 17,385 seats.
2019: This was the only year when no seat remained vacant.

It is clear that the admission numbers in IITs have been increasing steadily over the past few years.

Increasing participation of female candidates

The representation of female students has also increased in IIT Admissions 2025. A total of 3,664 female candidates secured seats this year, which is 20.15% of the total allocation.

IIT Tirupati: 21.57%
IIT Roorkee: 20.50%
IIT Madras: 21.09%

These statistics show that the participation of women in many institutes was higher than the national average.

Future Plans: Seat Expansion in new IITs

The government had announced in the February 2025 budget that 6,500 new seats will be added in the five new IITs (Palakkad, Dharwad, Jammu, Bhilai and Tirupati) over the next five years. The bulk of these seats will be at the undergraduate (B.Tech) level.

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