Students dropout in IITs is on the rise during the 2016-17 academic year around 889 (about 9%) and in 2015-16, around 656 students left from 23 IITs. As per the data by Ministry of Human Resource Development, out of 2461 students dropped in the last two years, 371 were from the Scheduled Caste (SC), 199 from the Scheduled Tribe (ST) and 601 from the Other Backward Classes (OBCs).
The number of students from each institution is from IIT Delhi (782), followed by IIT Kharagpur (622) and IIT Bombay (263).
Institutes | Last 2 years Drop-outs | |||
Total | SC | ST | OBC | |
IIT Bombay | 263 | 37 | 12 | 66 |
IIT Delhi | 782 | 111 | 84 | 161 |
IIT Kanpur | 190 | 18 | 5 | 61 |
IIT Madras | 128 | 14 | 6 | 38 |
IIT Kharagpur | 622 | 120 | 63 | 140 |
IIT Guwahati | 12 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
IIT Roorkee | 57 | 14 | 5 | 38 |
IIT BHU(Varanasi) | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
IIT Hyderabad | 85 | 8 | 4 | 25 |
IIT Patna | 92 | 8 | 2 | 25 |
IIT Jodhpur | 21 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
IIT Bhubaneswar | 39 | 8 | 2 | 9 |
IIT Gandhinagar | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
IIT Indore | 50 | 6 | 3 | 8 |
IIT Ropar | 34 | 8 | 4 | 8 |
IIT Mandi | 34 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
IIT Tirupati | 18 | 6 | 3 | 3 |
IIT Palakkad | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
IIT Bhilai | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
IIT Jammu | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
IIT Goa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
IIT Dharwad | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
IIT (ISM) Dhanbad | 9 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Total | 2461 | 371 | 199 | 601 |
The maximum dropouts were from the Postgraduate and Ph.D programmes. More than 13,000 students take admission in IITs in a year.
Previous years Dropout:
Academic Year | Students |
2014-15 | 1126 |
2015-16 | 656 |
2016-17 | 889 |