IIT-Madras starts admissions under sports quota; one seat in all UG programmes to be reserved for girls

CHENNAI: Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-Madras) has started Sports Excellence Admission (SEA). Under this initiative, there will be two supernumerary seats of which one will be exclusively reserved for female students in all UG programmes.

Students have to qualify the JEE (Advanced) exam to get admission under this quota.

The admission will be conducted through a separate portal created by IIT-Madras and not through Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSSA) portal.

Further details available on https://jeeadv.iitm.ac.in/sea

Candidates who have secured a position in the Common Rank List (CRL) or category-wise rank list in the JEE (Advanced) 2024 and have won at least one medal in any national/international-level sports competition in the last four years are encouraged to apply.

A separate Sports Rank List (SRL) will be prepared based on the total score obtained by the candidates based on their performance in a specific list of sports. The seat allotment will be done based on this list.

"Sports quota will ensure the presence of youth with these qualities on our campus who will be role models for other children," IIT-Madras director V Kamakoti said in a release.

IIT-Madras has added many sports-related electives. It has state-of-the-art sports infrastructure besides research facilities. This includes the Centre of Excellence in Sports Science and Analytics (CESSA), which delivers high quality sports science and education courses. It is also developing sports coaching products targeted at students and coaches through various strategic collaborations.