Saturday, June 6, 2015

Some General Information about JoSAA-2015

Indian Institutes of Technology [IITs] and Indian School of Mines [ISM] offer several academic programs for which admission is on the basis of JEE (Advanced) 2015. 

National Institutes of Technology [NITs], Indian Institutes of Information Technology [IIITs or Triple-I-Ts] and a few other technical Institutes funded fully or partially by Central or a State government [Other-GFTIs] offer academic programs for which admission is on the basis of JEE (Main) 2015. 


The names of IITs, ISM, NITs, IIITs (Triple-I-Ts) and Other-GFTIs are listed in Annexure 1. The academic programs, along with the category-wise intake capacity, will be announced on the online portal https://josaa.nic.in as per the timeline given in Annexure 2. The business rules stated herein will be followed for allocating seats for the above referenced academic programs for the academic year 2015-16. 

A candidate chooses and applies to a series of academic programs in a certain order of priority. In the context of seat allocation, “academic program” refers to the combination of academic program and Institute. For example, 4-year B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay is referred to Page | 2 as an “academic program”. Another example of an academic program is 4-year B.Tech. in Biotechnology at NIT Calicut. A seat to the highest possible choice of academic program is allocated to the candidate considering the following factors: 

(i) The category [GEN, OBC-NCL, SC, etc.] of the candidate 
(ii) The position of the candidate in rank list(s) 
(iii) The prioritization of academic programs by the candidate 
(iv) The availability of seats in different seat categories / seat quotas for which the candidate is eligible for 
(v) The business rules