IIT Seats in India for General Category 2025: The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) has released the category-wise IIT seat matrix for 2025 on the official website, josaa.nic.in. According to the notification, there are about 6287 total number of IIT general category seats 2025 in India. Candidates can check the IIT Seats in India for General Category on this page. The JoSAA seat matrix includes details such as the institute, courses, and category wise number of seats online. In this article, candidates can refer to the previous years. There are 23 IIT institutions with about 17,400 intake for Undergraduate courses. Out of which IIT seats in top IITs for general category is 40 to 45% which rounds up to a total seats of 6500 to 7400.
The distribution of seats also varies by the IIT and course candidates aspire to study. Generally the older and bigger institutions like IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, IIT Delhi, IIT Kharagpur offer higher intake of students between 1000 to 1500 each. Whereas, other institutes like IIT Goa, IIT Jammu and more will undertake a smaller number of seats with 150 to 300 each. Popular branches of study in engineering like Computer Science, Electrical and Mechanical engineering are considered to have higher cutoff for general category requiring for the candidates to secure top ranks to get admission into IIT's. For more details regarding IIT seat reservation for general category students, refer to the article below.
Candidates can find the total number of IIT seats for general category students in the table below. The list for total IIT seats for general category is available here.
Name of the IIT | Total seats in IIT for general category |
1589 | |
329 | |
496 | |
1360 | |
1239 | |
385 | |
360 | |
165 | |
962 | |
630 | |
480 | |
1210 | |
305 | |
610 | |
1919 | |
1121 | |
520 | |
200 | |
817 | |
646 | |
1353 | |
254 |
Name of the IIT | General | OBC-NCL | SC | ST |
IIT BHU | 614 | 409 | 227 | 114 |
IIT Bhilai | 126 | 84 | 47 | 24 |
IIT Bhubaneswar | 191 | 127 | 70 | 35 |
IIT Bombay | 531 | 347 | 194 | 97 |
IIT Delhi | 474 | 318 | 177 | 89 |
IIT Dharwad | 147 | 93 | 57 | 29 |
IIT Gandhinagar | 141 | 92 | 53 | 26 |
IIT Goa | 67 | 42 | 22 | 11 |
IIT Guwahati | 372 | 247 | 135 | 69 |
IIT Hyderabad | 240 | 162 | 90 | 46 |
IIT Indore | 186 | 123 | 68 | 34 |
IIT ISM Dhanbad | 466 | 312 | 172 | 87 |
IIT Jammu | 117 | 79 | 44 | 22 |
IIT Jodhpur | 247 | 153 | 89 | 43 |
IIT Kharagpur | 247 | 153 | 89 | 43 |
IIT Madras | 436 | 288 | 159 | 80 |
IIT Mandi | 201 | 132 | 74 | 37 |
IIT Palakkad | 77 | 52 | 27 | 15 |
IIT Patna | 319 | 214 | 117 | 59 |
IIT Ropar | 249 | 165 | 92 | 46 |
IIT Roorkee | 526 | 347 | 190 | 95 |
IIT Tirupati | 99 | 65 | 35 | 18 |
Name of the IIT | General Seats |
IIT BHU | 1589 |
IIT Bombay | 1360 |
IIT Delhi | 1239 |
IIT ISM Dhanbad | 1210 |
IIT Madras | 1121 |
IIT Guwahati | 962 |
IIT Hyderabad | 630 |
IIT Kharagpur | 1919 |
IIT Jodhpur | 610 |
IIT Mandi | 520 |
IIT Bhubaneswar | 496 |
IIT Indore | 480 |
IIT Dharwad | 385 |
IIT Gandhinagar | 360 |
IIT Jammu | 305 |
IIT Bhilai | 329 |
IIT Goa | 165 |
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Yes, it is highly competitive. To get CSE in top IITs, General category students usually need a rank under 300 in JEE Advanced.
The IIT BTech seats for general category for seats available is 6826.
As per the 2025 admission data, there are approximately 6,800 seats available for the General (Open) category across all IITs.
On Question asked by student community
You can easily download IIT JEE 2025 papers in Hindi. For JEE Main, websites like Careers360 give shift-wise question papers with answers in Hindi. For JEE Advanced, you can get both Paper 1 and 2 in Hindi from the official site jeeadv.ac.in (https://jeeadv.ac.in/)
Hello Alka
For JEE Advance, the best 5 subjects through which you need to calculate your percentage is:
1. Physics
2. Chemistry
3. Mathematics
4. One language (which is English)
5. One other subject of your choice
So you will need to choose PCM + English + a 5th subject to calculate your percentage.
Hope this answer helps! Thank You!!!
Hello!
In JEE Advanced eligibility, the top 5 subjects from your board exam are considered. Usually, they are Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and any two other subjects from the main curriculum. If CMS is your optional subject and IT is an additional subject, the board will still calculate based on the 5 highest marks from your eligible subjects. Additional subjects are considered only if they replace a lower score from another subject. For example, if IT has a higher score than English or CMS, then IT can be counted. However, some boards follow strict rules where only main subjects are counted, so you must verify with your board’s official notification. The 75% criteria means your average percentage in those best 5 subjects must meet the requirement. My advice—list all your subjects, arrange them from highest to lowest marks, and take the top five as per rules.
Hope this clears your doubt!
Getting under AIR 100 in JEE Advanced in 6 months is very tough but possible if you already have strong basics and are scoring high in JEE Main-level tests. You'll need 10–12 hours of focused daily study, advanced problem-solving, and regular mock tests. If you're starting from scratch, it's unlikely, but you can still aim for a good IIT rank with consistent effort.
Hello,
To qualify for the JEE Advanced, you need to score a certain percentile or above. This percentile may change depending on those years competition. Generally you need a percentile of 93-94 to qualify for the JEE Advanced. So, every year only 250,000 candidates from the JEE Mains out of all candidates qualify for the JEE Advanced exam.
I hope it resolves your query!!
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