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Everybody wants to be at IIT Bombay ... for a large number of the
top-ranking candidates of the JEE, IIT Bombay continues to be the
most preferred destination. This was evident on the second day of
counselling at the Powai campus. The reasons for this are many ...
but for most, IIT Bombay is the place that guarantees good
placements.
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7% in maths can get you through IIT-JEE ... that's exactly what
happened in the 2007 entrance exam, an RTI query has revealed. If
such poor performance in individual subjects could not stop
candidates from making it to the all-India rank (AIR) list, it was
thanks to a radical change in the 2007 examination in the procedure
for calculating subject-wise cutoffs.
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Brushing
aside objections over brand dilution, the government has begun
work on modifying the 1961 IIT Act to increase the total number
of IITs to 16. "I am surely in favour of the government's idea
of creating new quality institutes like the IITs but they should
be given a different name so that a different branding can be
created," said Ashok Misra, Director, IIT Bombay.
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A majority of India's 230,000 annual engineering graduates are not
employable.
According to a study carried out by Prof. Rangan Banerjee of IIT
Bombay and Vinayak Muley of the DoE, a "National PhD Initiative" is
urgently needed to increase the number of engineering PhDs from the
present abysmal 1,000 a year to at least 10,00 a year for the future
success of Indian industry and growth of engineering education in
India.
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IIT Bombay has launched a Mega Global Initiative to discover "10
Great Ideas to Change the World in the next 50 years". This
initiative was launched by noted industrialist Mr. Adi Godrej,
Chairman, Godrej Group and a member of IITB Advisory Council,
along with Prof Ashok Misra, Director, IIT Bombay, at a gala
event at IITB’s Powai campus in Mumbai.
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IIT Bombay, which set up an extension centre at Government
Engineering College (GEC), Chandkheda, six months ago, will support
the Gujarat state education department in the entire process of
setting up a full-fledged IIT. The IIT will function from GEC
Chandkheda.
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The
IIT Bombay Heritage Fund (IITBHF)
is a public charitable organization under US Internal Revenue
Code Section 501 (c) (3), whose mission is to fund
and promote education and research among students, faculty and
alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. The
IIT Bombay Alumni
Association (IITBAA), registered under Section 25 of the
Indian Companies Act, 1956, aims to strengthen the connections
between alumni, enhance ties to their alma mater, and provide
services to alumni to foster individual growth. |