IIT Madras starts sports excellence-based admissions

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) will start the ‘Sports Excellence Admission’ (SEA) from this academic year 2024-2025.

The institute, in a statement announced, will offer two supernumerary seats. Of these, one will be exclusively for female students, in each of its undergraduate programmes for Indians.

IIT Madras claims to be the first IIT in the country to introduce admissions for sportspersons in its undergraduate programmes.

This program aims to further encourage deserving students to pursue higher education while continuing to excel in their sports.

The admission process through SEA will require a student to qualify JEE (Advanced).

However, the admission will not be through the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) portal but through a separate portal operated by IIT Madras, which was launched on June 11, 2024.

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.