JEE Main 2026: These are the most chosen engineering programmes at IIT-Madras

IIT Madras popular programmes: Newly introduced courses – Computational Engineering and Mechanics (14,117 students) and Instrumentation and Biomedical Engineering (8,371 students) – have also seen significant choice counts.

The five-year Aerospace Engineering programme recorded the highest jump of 16.45 per cent, with the student choice count rising from 9,505 in 2024 to 11,069 in 2025 (Image source: IIT Madras)

IIT Madras popular programmes: The choice count for all programmes at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, which has retained its number 1 position for 10 consecutive years in the NIRF rankings engineering category, has increased by at least 9 per cent. In total, IIT Madras offered 17 programmes, and each one saw a rise in student choice count, with year-on-year changes ranging from 8 percent to as high as 16 percent.

The five-year Aerospace Engineering programme recorded the highest jump of 16.45 per cent, with the student choice count rising from 9,505 in 2024 to 11,069 in 2025. This was followed by the BTech in Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics, which registered a 13.24607587 per cent increase, as the count went up from 20,323 in 2024 to 23,015 this year.

Next jump was seen in the four-year Aerospace Engineering course with an increase of 11.88139781 per cent in 2025, with 15848 choice counts as compared to 14165 last year. Closely following is Engineering Physics, which saw an increase of 11.87285759 per cent as the choice count increased from 9627 in 2024 to 10770 in 2025.

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Newly introduced courses – Computational Engineering and Mechanics (14,117 students) and Instrumentation and Biomedical Engineering (8,371 students) – have also seen significant choice counts.

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The other IIT Madras programmes that saw an increase over 10 per cent are BTech in Computer Science and Engineering (11.8192157 per cent), Electrical Engineering (10.28501229 per cent) and Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering (10.07574847 per cent).

As per the Joint Implementation Committee (JIC) report 2025, a total of 26547 students showed interest in BTech in Computer Science and Engineering this year. The Artifical Intelligence and Data Science programme which started as a new course last year, were chosen by 23015 candidates this year. The new course has gained popularity in a year as it became the second most popular course in IIT Madras this year.

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The other courses which were more popular than the remaining were the four-year Electrical Engineering programme which had 22443 interested students and Mechanical Engineering which caught eyes of 19652 students.

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Courses that were opted by less than 10,000 students are Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering (9155), Instrumentation and Biomedical Engineering (8371), Biological Engineering (8107), five-year Engineering Design (7838), Physics (6799) and Biological Science (6024).

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