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IIT Bombay Leads Top JEE Advanced 2026 Choices, Report Says

A report looked at where students with high JEE Advanced 2026 ranks enrolled.

It says IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi and IIT Madras were the leading choices.

The article gives counts of 68 for Bombay and 29 each for Delhi and Madras.

But those counts add up to more than 100, so they do not match its separate claim that 97 of the top 100 chose those three colleges.

Among the top 25, Delhi and Madras each had eight students, and Bombay had six.

Overall, 18,861 students entered IITs through the exam.

Of them, 3,814 were female students, about one-fifth of the total.

The report also says the female qualification rate rose to 23.4% from 21.7% the year before.

Key facts

Report source: Joint Implementation Committee report released by IIT Roorkee
Reported top-100 choice total: 97 of the top 100 reportedly enrolled at IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi or IIT Madras
Reported institute counts: IIT Bombay: 68; IIT Delhi: 29; IIT Madras: 29. These add to 126 and conflict with the reported total of 97.
Top-25 choices: IIT Delhi: 8; IIT Madras: 8; IIT Bombay: 6
Total IIT admissions: 18,861 students
Female admissions: 3,814 students, approximately 20.2% of admissions; 20.15% in the previous year
Female qualification rate: 23.4% in 2026, compared with 21.7% in 2025

news18.com · 12 hrs ago