IIT Kanpur reserves seats for admissions through Olympiads
The HinduThe Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur has announced that it will reserve a certain number of seats for admitting students into BTech and BS programmes through Olympiads in five departments from the academic year 2025-26. Indian students have been acing these Olympiads for many decades with an enrollment of 20,000 and 60,000 students across subjects each year. These students then appear in the Indian National Olympiads, where the top 40-50 students make it to month-long extensive selection camps that engage students in lectures by subject-experts and researchers, challenging problem-solving questions, and experimental sessions. The candidate should have appeared for the Class XII or equivalent examination for the first time in either the year of admission to IIT Kanpur or the previous year with Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics as compulsory subjects.