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Nips Gzb 5th Jul, 2018

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Pranav Baradkar 6th Jul, 2018

there are 23 iits in our country and nearly 25000 seats in nits

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Ambika Sharma 5th Jul, 2018

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At present, there are sixteen IITs in Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, Guwahati, Roorkee, Hyderabad, Patna, Bhubaneshwar, Ropar, Jodhpur, Gandhinagar, Indore, Mandi and Varanasi. Of these16, 10 were established after 2004.

In all, IIT offers 4944 seats in the General category for all the engineering programmes. About 17,390 seats are allocated to 30 NITs. The highest number of seats has been allocated to NIT, Raipur and this is followed by MANIT, Bhopal with 937 seats and NIT, Rourkela has 900 seats.

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Nips Gzb

5th Jul, 2018

thanks a lot Ambika...just if further connect me what is the meaning of NIT's

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Ambika Sharma

5th Jul, 2018

The National Institutes of Technology(NITs) are autonomous public institutes of higher education, located in India just like IIT. The basic difference between the two is IITs gives admissions on the basis of JEE Advanced while nits gives admissions on the basis of JEE mains.

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zubin916 5th Jul, 2018

As pf 2017 data,

Total 10988 seats in Total of 23 IIT.

And 17868 seats in 31 NIT.

IITs have created 800 supernumerary seats this year in 2018

All details shared below.

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/iits-iiits-and-gftis-add-1558-btech-seats-nits-reduce-145

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K. Vinesh 5th Jul, 2018

Seats in IIT and NIT
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Please click on above attested link to get the exact no. Of seats in NIT and IIT

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