WHY INDIAN STUDENTS ARE CRAZY ABOUT IITs (INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY)

In the year 2019, for 13,853 seats of IIT total of 9,35,741 students had registered for the JEE Mains exam and out of these students, 2.45 lakh qualify the exam and satisfy the eligibility criteria of JEE Advanced and only 13,853 made to the final list and secure a seat in IITs. So it's very evident that there are extremely tough competition and incredibly high craze for IITs in India. So in this article, we will try to figure out the reasons which made IITs so popular in Indian society and among the youths. So let's figure them out.

PROMISING PLACEMENTS AND GREAT CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

In the year 2018, the highest salary offered at IIT Bombay was Rs. 1.5 Crores Per Annum, that of IIT Kharagpur was Rs. 1 Crore Per Annum, and in IIT Dehli it was Rs. 1.4 Crore Per Annum. All the big companies from Microsoft to Google land in IITs for placements so these institutions give great opportunities to all those students you want to work with big companies. IITs give quite satisfactory returns for the investment of 4 years and pre-preparation of 2 years.

IITs are great startup hubs. Flipkart was founded by IIT Delhi alumni Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, Ola was co-founded by IIT Bombay graduate Bhavesh Aggrawal, Zomato was founded by Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chaddah, IIT Delhi alumni. Members of the founding teams at swiggy, Udaan, and PolicyBazaar studied at IIT Kharagpur. Also, IIT Dehli is the 4th largest producer of unicorn startups in the world.

IITs empower its students with great research facilities. IITians are privileged with big labs, sufficient resources, and adequate equipment. As of 2014, the total research paper output of IIT Kharagpur is 16,510 and while that of IT Bombay (IITB), IIT Madras (IITM), and IIT Kanpur (IITK) is 12,937, 13,208 and 13,136 respectively.
So basically the Indian Institute Of Technology gives great research opportunities and lab facilities to its students.

ENORMOUS EXPOSURE AND EXTRAORDINARY ENVIRONMENT TO EVOLVE.

Campus area of IIT Kharagpur is spread over 2,100 acres while that of IIT Bombay and IIT Kanpur is 550 acres and 1,100 acres respectively. In these big campuses, different societies, sports, and clubs are there so that students can explore their interests. Clubs and societies of IITs are much professional as compared to other colleges. Workshop, seminars, and internships are organized regularly in IITs so that students get a proper chance to interact with new people and the opportunity to explore new things. Cultural and technical fests of IITs are very spectacular and quite popular among youngsters. Antaragni, the cultural festival of IIT Kanpur, is one of the biggest college cultural festivals in Asia. Tryst, the annual technical festival of the Indian Institute of Technology Dehli, is one of the largest technical fests in North India. 

IITs are the place where many innovative minds of the country get shaped. And when these creative-minded people study together in these great institutes (IITs) there is an atmosphere of healthy competition and it helps students to grow and evolve.

MISCONCEPTIONS SPREAD BY COACHING CENTERS.

Every year lakhs of students prepare for the Joint entrance examination (IIT-JEE) and their parents are ready to spend lakhs of rupees so that their kids can make it to IITs. And here coaching centers come in the game with there promising offers and business models. These coaching centers convince the parents that if once a student secures a seat in IIT then she/he will definitely come out becoming a bill gate or Mark Zuckerberg. During the 2-year preparation of IIT-JEE, coaching institutes convince their students that IITs are the only assured way of success, and once they clear the exam their life and future are sorted. A lot of Coaching institutes provide foundation courses for pre-preparation of the IIT entrance exam and 1-year courses for drop year students. Basically, the increasing craze for IITs in India is enriching the business of many coaching institutes around the country. "Kota Factory", the Hindi web series released in 2019, uncover the entire truth of these coaching institutes.