By Admin 
Every year millions of students take part in competitive examinations like NEET and JEE to make their career in the field of medical and engineering. Both these exams are counted in India’s biggest and difficult exams. But do you know how low the seats available in the most prestigious institutions of engineering i.e. IITs are compared to the MBBS seats for medical studies? This difference is so big that you will be shocked to know.
Medical seats
Through NEET (National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test), there is admission for MBBS studies in government and private medical colleges across the country. According to the data of the year 2024, a total of 55,648 seats of MBBS are available in government colleges. If you add seats of private colleges and other medical courses (such as BDS, BAMS, BHMS etc.), then this number goes above 1 lakh. But here we are only talking about government MBBS seats, so that a correct comparison can be made with IIT seats.
Dream of engineering – how many get admission in IIT?
There are currently 23 Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) across the country, which are considered the highest level of engineering studies. There were a total of 17,740 seats in the year 2024, including all these IITs. That is, out of millions of students, only a few thousand get a chance to study in IIT. These seats can be reached only after passing difficult exams like JEE Main and then JEE Advanced.
How big is the difference?
If we compare government MBBS seats (55,648) and IIT seats (17,740), then it is clear that the IIT seats are about 3 times less. That is, government MBBS seats in medical are three times more than IIT. If counting the seats of medical courses received from the entire NEET, then this difference increases even more than IIT seats.
Why is there so much difference?
One of the major reasons for this is that the number of private colleges in the medical field is more and the government has opened many new medical colleges in the last years. At the same time, the number of IITs is limited and the number of students in every college is also limited so that the level of studies will remain.
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