More seats in IIT, BBS filled up this yr

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bhubaneswar has witnessed rise in filling up of seats in MSc, MTech and PhD programmes over the previous years by seven per cent, 15 per cent and 95 per cent, respectively.

To encourage girls to pursue higher studies, 19 girl students, who were offered seats on supernumerary basis, have joined over and above the sanctioned strength to various undergraduate courses, taking girl students’ number to 55.

From this academic year, a new MTech course in Computer Science and Engineering with two sub-specializations, Cyber Security and Forensics and Data Analytics and Machine intelligence was introduced and students joined.

Prof Raja Kumar, Director of the institute said that the steep rise in admission percentage is very satisfying and expressed that the trend will continue and vacancies will further come down in the coming years.

Now, the institute offers six BTech, nine Dual Degree programmes, five MSc, 11 MTech programmes and PhD in its seven schools. 

The admission for the academic year 2018-19 to the above courses took place on July 20 and 25, respectively.

Out of 369 offered BTech seats and Dual Degree programmes, 354 students (including 2 preparatory course completed students of last year) joined this time.

Further, five students joined preparatory course at other institutes and they would be joining IIT Bhubaneswar next year. 

Out of 95 offered, 75 students have joined MSc and out of 160 offered,156 (including the sponsored from DRDO) students have joined various MTech programmes. 

As many as 58 students were admitted to the PhD programmes, informed an official release.