IIT-BHU increases 111 seats in popular depts for JEE qualified students

Time of India

4 hours ago

Varanasi: The Indian Institute of Technology-Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, has increased 111 seats in its most popular departments for students qualifying through the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE).
For the 2025-26 academic year, the institute will offer a total of 1,589 seats for the first-year students, the same as last year. However, seats were moved around to better meet the demand.
Specifically, 111 seats were reduced in four departments—ceramic engineering, metallurgical engineering, mining engineering, and pharmaceutical engineering & technology—and given to nine high-demand departments like computer science and engineering, electronics engineering, mathematics and computing.
Four departments remained unaffected.
IIT-BHU director prof Amit Patra said, "We are constantly working to ensure that our academic offerings match the aspirations of our students and the needs of the industry. This reallocation of seats in high-demand departments will provide more opportunities for talented students to pursue their chosen fields and contribute meaningfully to technological advancement and nation-building."
As per the count provided by the institute, as compared to the 2024-25 session, the number of seats in 2025-26 reduced from 14 to 41 in ceramic engineering, metallurgical, mining, and pharmaceutical engineering.
The maximum reduction in the figure of seats—41—was in mining engineering.
The seats increased from three to 22 in chemical engineering, civil, computer science, electrical, electronics, mechanical, architecture, biochemical, bioengineering, materials science and technology, mathematics and computing, engineering physics, and industrial chemistry. The number of total seats (1,589) is unchanged.