IIT JEE Toppers: IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi continue as top picks for JEE Advanced toppers

IIT Delhi, which has steadily maintained its appeal, secured 19 students from the top 100 in 2025. Though lower than the 23 who picked the institute in 2024 and 22 in 2023, IIT Delhi remains the clear second choice for top rankers over the last five years, consistently attracting between 19 and 32 of the best-performing candidates.

Year-wise top 100 choices of JEE Advanced rankers

IIT Madras has seen fluctuating numbers among the top 100 aspirants. This year, six rankers opted for the Chennai-based institute — its highest in the past five years — compared to just two in 2024.

Trends over the years

The data shows IIT Bombay’s dominance has strengthened since 2020, when it was chosen by 58 of the top 100 rankers. Its share has risen steadily each year, crossing the 70 mark in both 2024 and 2025.

IIT Delhi, meanwhile, has consistently secured its place as the second-most preferred institute, with numbers hovering between 19 and 32 over the past six years.

IIT Madras has remained a distant third choice, attracting between two and eight students among the top 100 each year.

The data highlights a clear preference among toppers for IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi, while other IITs such as IIT Madras continue to make incremental gains.

In the broader pool of top 5000 JEE Advanced rankers, IIT Bombay continues to dominate, with 755 students opting for the institute. IIT Delhi follows with 577 students, while IIT Madras secured 478, consolidating its position as the third-most preferred choice.

Other IITs that drew significant interest include IIT Kharagpur (517 students), IIT Kanpur (448), IIT Roorkee (429), and IIT Hyderabad (222). Among the newer IITs, IIT BHU Varanasi attracted 258 top 5000 rankers, IIT Guwahati 305, and IIT Indore 109.

Some institutes saw limited representation from top rankers – for example, IIT Bhubaneswar drew 43, IIT Jodhpur 63, and IIT Ropar 120. A few, such as IIT Jammu (4), IIT Bhillai (2), IIT Goa (3), IIT Palakkad (1), and IIT Dharwad (1), saw only single-digit representation.

According to IIT Kanpur report released on August 25, 2025, as many as 1,87,113 students from all seven zones got registered for JEE Advanced 2025 – 45,622 students from Hyderabad zone; 37,002 students from Bombay zone; and 34, 069 students from the Delhi zone. IIT-Kanpur conducted this year’s JEE Advanced.

Among those who registered, 12,946 (28.37 per cent) students from Hyderabad zone; 11,226 (30.33 per cent) from Bombay zone and 11,370 (33.37 per cent) students from Delhi zone qualified the JEE-Advanced exam. A total of 4,182 students from Delhi zone or 36.78 per cent of those who qualified the JEE-Advanced got admissions in IITs, the best conversion rate for any zone. The Hyderabad zone had the most number of admissions with 4,363 (33.7 per cent). A total of 3,825 students from the Bombay zone, 1,729 from Roorkee zone, 1,622 from Kanpur zone, 1,655 from Kharagpur zone, and 812 students from Guwahati zone have been selected for IITs.