Check engineering branches most preferred by IIT Delhi aspirants

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Written by Deeksha Teri

New Delhi | Updated: October 22, 2024 12:58 PM IST

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While the four-year CSE course was the most popular programme this year, the five-year programme only attracted 16,188 students. (Representative image/ Express photo by Abhinav Saha)

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi’s Computer Science Engineering branch has been the most popular choice among the JEE aspirants. As per the Joint Implementation Committee (JIC) report 2024, a total of 25,064 students showed their interest in pursuing Computer Science Engineering (CSE) from IIT Delhi. As compared to last year, this time, there was a 14.8 per cent rise in IIT Delhi’s popularity.

The next popular course after CSE is Electrical Engineering which also saw a 14 per cent increase from 19064 in 2023 to 21,855 choice count this year. The other top choices (third, fourth and fifth) were Mechanical Engineering (19,035), four-year course of Mathematics and Computing (18,760), and Electrical Engineering (Power and Automation) (16,226).

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While the four-year CSE course was the most popular programme this year, the five-year programme only attracted 16,188 students. However, this was an increase of 19.59 per cent, from 13,536 in 2023 to 16,188 this year. Similarly, the five-year Mathematics and Computing course also failed to pull as much traction as only 13,741 students expressed their interest towards this programme.