New Delhi4 minutes agoAuthor: Anirudh Sharma
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IIT Bombay remained the first choice of toppers in IIT-JEE 2026 also. 68 students ranked in top-100 and 183 students ranked in top-500 took admission in IIT Bombay. This information has come out in the report of the Joint Implementation Committee of IIT-JEE 2026. This time JEE Advanced was organized by IIT Roorkee.
According to the report, out of 23 IITs in the country, students’ trust remains on the old 7 institutions. Out of the top-5000 ranked students in JEE Advanced, 2,460 students took admission in these institutes. At the same time, no student from the top-500 took admission in 15 IITs including Indore, Mandi, Bhubaneswar, Jodhpur, Gandhinagar, Patna, Dhanbad, Ropar and Varanasi.
Computer Science is the first choice, 142 chose this in IIT Bombay
Talking about the course, the first choice of the toppers was Computer Science and Engineering (CSE). Out of top-500, 365 i.e. 73% students chose CSE in different IITs.
Of these, maximum 142 students took Computer Science in IIT Bombay. In comparison, only 2 out of top-500 i.e. 0.4% students took admission in civil engineering.
No one chose aerospace in top-500
No student in the top-500 chose Aerospace Engineering. At the same time, 17 students took admission in AI and Data Analytics and only 2 students took admission in Civil Engineering.
Rank-1 Shubham Kumar chose IIT Delhi
Five students included in the top-10, including Shubham Kumar, who secured rank-1, took admission in IIT Delhi. Aarohi Deshpande, who was topper among girls, also chose IIT Delhi. His rank was 77.
At the same time, the number of girls taking admission was highest in Madras zone. Here girls got 1,260 seats out of 4,796.
Expert said- students are adopting trend without taking risk
Pro. According to V. Ramgopal, former director, IIT Delhi and vice-chancellor, BITS Pilani Group, once a trend in an institute or branch is established, it takes a lot of time to change it. There is no dearth in the faculty, facilities and standards of old IITs like Bombay, Delhi, Madras, Kanpur and Kharagpur. Toppers want to take admission in Bombay also because last year’s toppers had also taken admission there.
According to him, students do not want to take risk. They feel that the previous topper must have chosen an institute very thoughtfully. This trend has been changing with time in the top-7 IITs. Once there was such a trend for Kharagpur and Kanpur, then it became for Delhi. If top-1000 rankers do not get seats in a branch like CSE, they prefer BITS.
According to experts, one of the reasons for less interest in core courses like civil, electrical and mechanical is the initial salary package. The average package of CSE is said to be Rs 30 lakh, while in Civil it is less than half of that. However, with increasing experience the career in both the trades becomes equal.
How difficult was JEE Advanced this time?
- There were a total of 102 questions, but only 4 questions were solved correctly by more than 50% of the students. There were 2 questions from Mathematics and 1 each from Physics and Chemistry.
- There were 32 questions in which more than 50% students gave wrong answers. These included 11 questions from Mathematics, 9 from Physics and 12 from Chemistry.
- 50% students did not answer 21 questions. These included 4 questions from Mathematics, 11 from Physics and 6 from Chemistry.
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