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Second Generation IITs: Increase In International and Women Students Over Last Seven Years

Second Generation IITs: Increase In International and Women Students Over Last Seven Years

Edited By Nidhi Agarwal | Updated on Jul 03, 2023 09:14 AM IST

Following a joint decision to introduce 20 per cent supernumerary seats for women in 2017, the representation of women in the student population of the new Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) has surely gone up. An analysis of the latest data shows that their presence has increased from 9.21 per cent in 2015-16 to 19.46 per cent in 2021-22 at second generation IITs.

Second Generation IITs:  Increase In International and Women Students Over Last Seven Years
Second Generation IITs: Increase In International and Women Students Over Last Seven Years

Enrollment data shared for ranking by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF 2023) also includes the information on the number of students from historically-marginalised backgrounds such as the Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Other Backward Classes (OBC); those from the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS); and within these groups, persons with disabilities (PWD). As central institutions, the reservation policy for these groups applies to all IITs. The seat quotas – 15 per cent for SC, 7.5 per cent for ST, 27 per cent for OBC, and 10 per cent for EWS. The quotas determine the composition to a large extent.

Analysis of NIRF data also shows the level of participation of international students in the second generation of IITs who have participated in the NIRF ranking 2023. These were all established around 2008 and include IIT Ropar in Punjab; IIT Bhubaneswar, Odisha; IIT Gandhinagar, Gujarat; IIT Hyderabad, Telangana; IIT Jodhpur, Rajasthan; IIT Patna, Bihar; IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh. IIT-Banaras Hindu University (IIT-BHU) Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh; and IIT-Indian School of Mines (IIT-ISM) Dhanbad, Jharkhand are excluded from the analysis of second generation IITs.- These were converted into IITs recently – which is why they have been excluded here – as institutions, they are some of the oldest engineering colleges in the country, predating even the oldest IIT.

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The latest data available on NIRF is for the batch graduating in 2021-22 from these eight second generation IITs..

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IIT Gender Ratio

Over the seven years, the presence of women students in the eight new second generation IITs has risen, both in percentage and absolute numbers.

However, within this group, numbers and proportions varied and fluctuated before 2017-18.

IIT Hyderabad had more than 16 percent female students for most years and also the highest percentage of female students among all the new IITs till 2021. And for 2017-19, IIT Patna had only 36 female students out of a total of 783.

In 2015-15 IIT Patna remained the lowest among all eight IITs for female participation, but in the latest years it held the top position. While IIT Jodhpur had the lowest female candidates in 2021-22.

Chart title | Second Generation IITs: Presence Of Women (In %)

Name

2021-22

2020-21

2019-20

2018-19

2017-18

2016-17

2015-16

IIT Ropar

18.06

15.37

12.56

9.73

6.50

6.33

5.78

IIT Bhubaneswar

18.17

15.98

12.44

10.30

8.47

8.96

9.50

IIT Gandhinagar

18.26

15.37

12.81

11.02

9.38

9.78

9.96

IIT Hyderabad

19.37

18.93

16.27

16.10

14.67

16.30

16.32

IIT Jodhpur

16.91

16.45

13.93

10.79

10.52

8.11

8.54

IIT Patna

25.00

13.99

11.19

6.64

4.60

5.11

5.68

IIT Indore

19.30

16.45

13.19

9.93

7.59

8.65

10.49

IIT Mandi

20.63

19.50

15.53

11.54

7.65

5.91

7.38

Also Read | Top NITs: Women’s Presence In The Best NITs Has Declined Over Seven Years

New IITs: Candidates From Inside And Outside The State

No pattern emerges from the changes in the percentage of students enrolling from within the state – unlike the National Institutes of Technology (NIT), IITs do not reserve seats for the home state. But for a particular institute, the percentage more or less remained the same, except in the case of IIT Patna where the percentage of students from within Bihar rose by close to 10 percentage points in 2022. Later it decreased by two per cent in the latest year.

The table below shows the percentage based on the total enrollment in all four years of the undergraduate programmes (BTech) in a particular academic year.

IIT: Students From Within State (In %)

Name

2021-22

2020-21

2019-20

2018-19

2017-18

2016-17

2015-16

IIT Ropar

8.16

8.36

7.44

7.21

7.32

7.76

8.14

IIT Bhubaneswar

4.77

3.97

4.05

4.03

4.05

3.52

3.45

IIT Gandhinagar

18.84

20.24

17.83

15.74

13.75

11.13

18.05

IIT Hyderabad

38.54

39.59

40.51

40.95

39.60

48.07

50.93

IIT Jodhpur

21.15

21.60

23.85

25.49

24.65

32.26

36.12

IIT Patna

20.12

22.70

22.78

17.30

16.22

15.05

12.86

IIT Indore

16.20

13.52

16.03

16.03

16.12

15.66

15.20

IIT Mandi

2.06

2.17

1.63

1.63

1.87

1.77

1.48


IIT: SC, ST, OBC, EWS Quotas

Some level of diversity in the IITs is guaranteed by the legally-mandated reservation policy. The 10 percent EWS quota was introduced in early 2019 but implemented in the IITs in phases. Therefore, the 2019-2020 data will reflect the presence of EWS quota only in the first-year students of all undergraduates enrolled in that year. However, like with the NITs, that is not the only issue with the EWS statistics.

The new quota was for upper-caste candidates with an annual family income of less than Rs 8 lakh. It is not clear from available documents how the NIRF or the IITs were defining “EWS” before 2019 although they have furnished numbers for it since NIRF 2016.

The absolute numbers submitted by the institutes for ranking suggest that the proportion of students from economically backward backgrounds has been declining in some IITs since the quota was introduced. In some – IIT Patna and IIT Mandi – the percentage of EWS students has fluctuated wildly. Considering that the composition of a single batch of students remains more-or-less stable for the four years the programme lasts, and that drastic changes to the student community as a whole can occur only when one batch graduates and another joins, it is difficult to see how the representation of EWS students can drop by over 19 percentage points in a single year (IIT Jodhpur) or rise by over 21 percentage points (IIT Bhubaneswar).

However, the percentage representation, based on the absolute numbers in the NIRF document, is given below.

Second Generation IIT: Economically Backward Students (In %)

Name

2021-22

2020-21

2019-20

2018-19

2017-18

2016-17

2015-16

IIT Ropar

42.84

31.33

15.28

27.43

19.51

18.78

19.70

IIT Bhubaneswar

8.00

20.64

16.30

34.04

12.90

25.70

28.50

IIT Gandhinagar

5.59

5.24

11.49

5.44

18.44

7.25

9.96

IIT Hyderabad

12.83

4.15

7.87

7.79

6.81

6.45

14.22

IIT Jodhpur

16.56

18.17

13.58

12.74

32.18

25.28

11.21

IIT Patna

13.48

13.32

15.02

14.45

15.20

38.04

13.00

IIT Indore

7.55

18.09

14.33

5.42

6.91

16.31

12.42

IIT Mandi

22.79

7.18

9.40

9.27

2.24

0.00

31.01

Quotas for SC, ST and OBC add up to 49.5 percent of seats. Here, most of the IITs have done better than NITs, with the representation of these groups crossing 50 percent in several years.

In the case of IIT Jodhpur, the 2016-17 data yields a 1.7 percent representation for socially backward groups. For the same reason explained above for EWS, neither of these figures is entirely plausible.

Second Generation IITs: SC, ST, OBC Quotas

Name

2021-22

2020-21

2019-20

2018-19

2017-18

2016-17

2015-16

IIT Ropar

50.61

50.68

50.95

50.70

50.57

50.61

51.61

IIT Bhubaneswar

50.97

50.60

51.01

49.94

51.45

51.84

52.50

IIT Gandhinagar

49.89

49.88

50.99

51.50

50.78

50.93

50.56

IIT Hyderabad

50.63

50.38

50.48

50.39

50.62

50.29

50.56

IIT Jodhpur

49.56

49.51

49.94

49.03

51.18

1.70

49.47

IIT Patna

48.98

48.49

48.19

48.34

51.21

50.67

50.97

IIT Indore

51.71

50.82

50.76

50.68

50.41

45.84

49.25

IIT Mandi

50.29

50.29

50.27

50.73

50.56

50.59

50.63

Also Read | NIT Placements: Under 83% BTech Students Placed Across Top we NITs Over 7 Years

Participation of Foreign students

In 2019-20, only nine foreign students were enrolled in the eight second generation IIT, all of them in IIT Hyderabad. But by 2021-22, around 21 students were admitted, out of them 18 were in IIT Hyderabad, two were in IIT Gandhinagar and one student was in IIT Mandi.

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