IIT Bombay: Ranking, Courses, Fees, Admission, Placements

IIT Bombay Overview

IIT Bombay is a technical and research university located in Powai, Mumbai. It is an autonomous public university and one of the most reputed institutes. It is also one of the most competitive institutes in India to get into. Students from all over the country and various parts of the world join study here. Institute offers various 4 years, 5 years, and 2 years programs. Entry into these programs is through the joint entrance examinations, JEE. IIT Bombay offers degrees such as Bachelor of Technology, 4 years Bachelor of Science, 2 years Master of Science, and 5 years IDDDP. IIT Bombay has the best teacher-to-student ratio in the country with more than 400 faculty members on the team.

Table of Contents

• Highlights
• Ranking
• Courses
• Departments
• Admission
• Eligibility Criteria
• Why Choose IIT Bombay?
• Cut-Off
• Result
• Infrastructure
• Placements
• Scholarship
• Faculty
• Collaborations
• Alumni

IIT Bombay Highlights 

IIT Bombay offers various courses and consultancy projects sponsored by industry giants and various departments for its faculty members. These programs are funded by various national agencies like the Department of Science and Technology, Analytical Development Agency, ONGC, etc. The other highlights of IIT Bombay are given below.

Year of Establishment	1961
Type of University	Public
Accreditations	IBM, NAAC
Governed by	Board of Governors
Visitor	The President of India
Recognition	NIRF, CWUR
Courses offered	B. Tech, M.Tech. M.Sc. M. Phil, Ph.D.
No. of Departments	15
Infrastructure Facilities	Hostels, guestroom, hospital, clubs, labs, Library
Location	Powai, Mumbai

IIT Bombay Ranking

IIT Bombay is one of the top-ranked institutions in the country. NIRF has placed IIT Bombay at 3rd position overall and 3rd position among engineering institutes in their latest rankings. Other rankings for IIT Bombay are given below.

• QS World University Ranking has placed the institute 177th in the world. 
• AIIA has placed IIT Bombay in 2nd position.
• IIT Bombay is placed at 49th position by QA WUR by subject.
• IIT Bombay is also placed at 10th for MBA.
• In their 2020 rankings, India Today and The Week rated IIT Bombay second for its B. Tech program.
• In its 2020 rankings, Outlook ranked IIT Bombay third for its B. Tech program.

IIT Bombay Courses

IIT Bombay offers various UG, PG, Doctoral, and certificate courses. They offer these courses in different engineering disciplines and a few inter-disciplinary management courses. Following are the various departments and courses offered. 

Department	Courses
Aerospace engineering	B. Tech
Biosciences and Bioengineering	M.Sc., M. Tech, Ph.D.
Chemical engineering	B. Tech, M. Tech
Electrical engineering	B. Tech, M. Tech, Ph.D.
Humanities & Social Sciences	M.A, M. Phil, Ph.D.
Environmental Science and Engineering (ESED)	B. Tech, M. Tech, M.Sc., Ph.D.

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IIT Bombay Departments

IIT Bombay offers various UG, PG, and doctoral courses across various departments and interdepartmental courses. There are currently 15 academic departments. These departments offer various undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral courses. These departments are listed below.

Aerospace Engineering	Biosciences and Bioengineering
Chemical Engineering	Chemistry
Civil Engineering	Computer Science and Engineering
Earth Sciences	Electrical Engineering
Energy Science and Engineering	Environmental Science and Engineering
Humanities and Social Sciences	Mathematics
Mechanical Engineering	Metallurgy Engineering and Metal Science
Physics

IIT Bombay Admission

Admission to various courses of IIT Bombay is through different entrance exams. For undergraduate courses in engineering, candidates need to clear JEE advanced. For postgraduate courses, entrance exams like the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering for M. Tech and Ph.D. and the Joint Admission Test for M.Sc. are required. Similarly, there are entrance exams, group discussions, and personal interview processes for MBA courses. For every course, there are different entrance exams.

IIT Bombay Eligibility Criteria

IIT Bombay has different eligibility criteria for candidates interested in appearing for different entrance exams. Candidates who do not fulfill these are not given admission in their desired courses. These are mentioned separately for different courses.

IIT Bombay B. Tech Eligibility

• The candidate should have passed the 10+2 examination from the recognized board. 
• The candidate must have scored a valid score in JEE Mains and JEE Advanced exams.

IIT Bombay Ph.D. Eligibility

• The candidate should have passed postgraduate with 60%.
• They should have cleared the written entrance exam and interview or should have scored well on GATE. The score of the gate or written exam has a vital weightage.
• A 4-year bachelor's degree is the minimum qualification required for engineering students.

IIT Bombay M.Sc. Eligibility

• The candidate must have done their graduation from a recognized university with a minimum of 60%.
• They must have scored the qualifying marks in JAM.

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Why Choose IIT Bombay?

IIT Bombay is one of India's top 5 engineering institutes and holds an equally good ranking for management courses. They offer various courses across 15 departments. They are also ranked well among institutes across the world. The institutes have many essential features that make them a good choice for the students for their UG or PG courses.

• Fifteen academic departments and 36 research centers.
• Three different schools and 4 interdisciplinary programs.
• Institute offers student exchange programs across Asia and Europe with Links to Asia by Organizing Traineeship and Student Exchange (LAOTSE).
• Institute has a campus across more than 500 acres of land and a cluster of buildings.
• Located in the most cosmopolitan city in the nation and offers various opportunities.

IIT Bombay Academic Advantage

With such a vast number of interdisciplinary centers, various programs are running to benefit students and faculties. The different exchange programs offer students one in a thousand opportunities for studies and research. Following are a few of the essential academic advantages students of IIT Bombay enjoy.

• In conjunction with ICRISAT Hyderabad and the National Virtual Academy for Indian Agriculture, IIT Bombay established a free online agriculture course in 2015.
• In collaboration with Washington University in St. Louis, IIT Bombay created the first combined EMBA program between the United States and India.
• More than 400 funded research programs are running at a time at IIT Bombay.

IIT Bombay Cut-Off

The cut-off date for IIT Bombay in 2021 has been announced. The institute's cut-off criteria are used to determine admission to various UG and PG courses. Students seeking admission to B.Tech and BS programs must first take the JEE Advanced exam, followed by JoSAA counseling. Following are a few of the entrance exams for different courses.

• GATE - M. Tech, PhD
• JAM- M.Sc.
• JEE Mains and Advanced-B. Tech
• CEED and UCEED- Design

The following is the cut off for the B.Tech course offered by IIT Bombay in 2021 based on JEE Advanced for the various categories of students:

B.Tech Specialisations	General Category	SC Category
Aerospace Engineering	2118	589
Computer Science and Engineering	64	28
Chemical Engineering	2213	831

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IIT Bombay Result

Every year, IIT Bombay publishes entrance and re-examination results. The orientation and registration program for IIT Bombay B. Tech students take place in November. For various internal exams, candidates can gain access to the result as per the instructions given by the department. Other than this, the results of various entrance exams are available on the institute's official website. 

IIT Bombay Infrastructure

• IIT Bombay is spread across 545 acres of land and have more than 500 building on its campus.
• There are 18 hostels for the students, which provide all the facilities that they might need at any given point in time.
• There are also 2 Schools inside the IIT campus for the wards of students and staff. One of them is Kendriya Vidyalaya, and the other is the IIT Campus school.
• Along with these, numerous labs, classrooms, and offices, all equipped with required facilities, are available for the benefit of the students. 
• Apart from these, there are the following facilities available at the campus-
  • KG School
  • Staff Club
  • Hospital
  • Women'sWomen's Cell
  • Estate Office etc.

IIT Bombay Placement

IIT Bombay has a dedicated placement cell that serves as a link between businesses and students. The placement committee administers the Placement Common Aptitude Test (PCAT). The purpose of PCAT is to replace the individual recruitment tests that companies currently use. Every year, over 200 companies come to campus for campus placement.

IIT Bombay released the placement report for the year 2021. According to the report, 83.58 percent of students were placed. There were a total of 1207 students who were placed. A CTC of INR 17.91 LPA was offered on average. During the IIT Bombay Placements 2021, engineering and technology played a dominant role. Uber offered a maximum salary of 2.05 CPA per annum. The average salary offered was highest in Finance at 28 LPA, and the lowest was in Consulting sector at 18 LPA. Some of the top recruiters were

Uber	Ruberik
WorldQuant	Millennium
Blackstone	Honeywell

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IIT Bombay Scholarship

IIT Bombay offers many scholarships to deserving students. There are different scholarships available for the students of different programs. A list of such scholarships is given below.

IIT Bombay Scholarship for Undergraduate Students

• NTS scholarship
• Named Scholarship

IIT Bombay Private scholarship and fellowship for Postgraduate students

• SJM School of Management Endowment Scholarship
• IITB Monash Scholarship
• EATON Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
• SERB (Purdue Visiting Doctoral Fellowship (for 12 months))
• Forbes Marshall
• Dr. Gargi Vishnoi Memorial Scholarship (Only for Biosciences and Bioengineering Department)
• NBHM (National Board of Higher Mathematics
• DBT-JRF, DBT-SRF (Department of Biotechnology Jr. research Fellowship)
• DST-INSPIRE
• DAE (DGFS) (BRNS) (Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences)
• AERB (Atomic Energy Regulatory Board)
• MERC (Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission)
• MPCB (Maharashtra Pollution Control Board)

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IIT Bombay Faculty

IIT Bombay's faculty is highly knowledgeable and assists in achieving the institute's goals. They are an essential component of the IITB. More than 700 faculty members, full-time and visiting academic members, participate in research at the IITB campus. They have also received many awards and accolades for their participation and contribution to the different research programs. 

IIT Bombay Collaborations

IIT Bombay has collaborated with various national and international institutes over the years. These collaborations have been for various research and academic purposes. Following are a few of the institutes they have partnered with.

IIT Bombay International Collaborations

Belgium

• Universite de Liege
• Universite Catholique de Louvain

USA

• Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
• North-western University

Korea

• Dongguk University
• Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Germany

• Technische Universitat Darmstadt

Saudi Arabia

• King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Cambodia

• Cambodia Institute of Technology (ITC)

Great Britain

• University of Cambridge

Canada

• University of Alberta
• York University
• McMaster University

IIT Bombay Industry Collaborations

• Partnership with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Tata Consulting Engineers (TCE) to offer IT benefits to the power sector.
• Collaboration with TCS for an extended period in significant research fields such as software engineering, machine learning, intelligent infrastructure, scheduling, and planning.
• Integrating innovative engines and renewable fuels technology to enable long-term development and improve people's lives, particularly in rural areas.
• Negative-bias temperature instability (NBTI), a significant reliability challenge for modern CMOS devices, was developed with Synopsys.

IIT Bombay Alumni

The IIT Bombay alumni are well-known, having high-ranking positions in various top-tier corporations. The alumni have distinguished themselves in industry, academia, research, business, government, and social service through their accomplishments and contributions. The institute's alumni include CEOs, chairmen, co-founders of numerous businesses, and a senior advocate at India's Supreme Court.

Following is the list of a few notable alumni-

Notable Alumni	Profession
Nandan Nilekani	Non-Executive Chairman of Infosys‎
Sarita Adve	Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois
Jairam Ramesh	Former Minister of Rural Development of India
Kanwal Rekhi	Managing Director - Inventus Capital Partners
K.Sivan	Ex-Chief of ISRO