IIT BHU vs IIT Madras: Courses, Seats, Cutoffs, Fees, Placements and Research (2026)
IIT Madras leads on sponsored research by 1208% (₹1,128.82 crore vs ₹86.32 crore, FY 2024-25). IIT Madras earned 12.0 times as much from consultancy (₹460.28 crore vs ₹38.27 crore, FY 2024-25). IIT Madras has 76% more faculty (720 vs 409, NIRF 2026).
Last updated: 14 Oct 2026.
Who should pick which (our analysis)
IIT BHU
Our analysis: IIT BHU suits you if you want a large intake and rare branches you won't find at most IITs. Examples are Ceramic Engineering, Pharmaceutical Engineering & Technology, Mining Engineering and Biochemical Engineering. It also offers a 5-year B.Arch. Its biggest branches are Mechanical (190 seats) and Chemical (170).At a glance
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| Point | IIT BHU | IIT Madras | Source (year) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Established (year) | 1919 | 1959 | JoSAA 2026 institute profile |
| Location (city, state) | Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh | Chennai, Tamil Nadu | JoSAA 2026 institute profile josaa.admissions.nic.in |
| Campus area | Not published | 650 acres | JoSAA 2026 institute profile |
| Official website | iitbhu.ac.in | iitm.ac.in | iitbhu.ac.in |
| NIRF Overall rank | 31 | 1 | NIRF 2025 |
| NIRF Engineering rank | 10 | 1 | NIRF 2025 |
| B.Tech tuition per semester | ₹1,00,000 | ₹1,00,000 | 2026-27 |
| First-semester academic fees | Not published | ₹1,41,402 | 2026-27 |
| Fee waiver notes | SC, ST and PwD: semester fee ₹6,050 (no tuition). Family income ₹1–5 lakh: one-third tuition (semester fee ₹39,683); below ₹1 lakh: tuition exempted (₹6,350). | SC, ST and PwD: no tuition. Family income below ₹1 lakh: full tuition remission; ₹1–5 lakh: two-thirds remission (first-semester total ₹74,735). | 2026-27 |
| Hostel / mess fee | Mess advance ₹16,500 every semester, on top of the semester fee | Seat rent ₹7,500 per semester; hostel fee circular at fees.iitm.ac.in; advance mess charges depend on the mess tender | 2026-27 |
| Total JoSAA seats | 1,589 | 1,118 | JoSAA 2026 |
| UG 4-year median salary | ₹18 lakh | ₹17.78 lakh | 2024-25 |
| UG 4-year placed / graduated | 1,079 placed of 1,106 graduates | 631 placed of 781 graduates | 2024-25 |
| UG 5-year (dual) median salary | Not published | ₹22 lakh | 2024-25 |
| PG 2-year median salary | ₹9.2 lakh | ₹15 lakh | 2024-25 |
| PG 2-year placed | 233 | 644 | 2024-25 |
| UG 4-year went for higher studies | 26 | 147 | 2024-25 |
| Total UG 4-year students | Not published | 3,733 | 2024-25 |
| Faculty count | 409 | 720 | NIRF 2026 |
| Full-time PhD students | 1,355 | 2,399 | 2024-25 |
| Full-time PhDs graduated | Not published | 485 | 2024-25 |
| Sponsored research received | ₹86.32 crore | ₹1,128.82 crore | FY 2024-25 |
| Consultancy received | ₹38.27 crore | ₹460.28 crore | FY 2024-25 |
How IIT BHU and IIT Madras differ
- IIT Madras leads on sponsored research by 1208% (₹1,128.82 crore vs ₹86.32 crore, FY 2024-25).
- IIT Madras earned 12.0 times as much from consultancy (₹460.28 crore vs ₹38.27 crore, FY 2024-25).
- IIT Madras has 76% more faculty (720 vs 409, NIRF 2026).
- IIT Madras enrols 77% more PhD scholars (2,399 vs 1,355, 2024-25).
- IIT BHU admits 42% more students through JoSAA (1,589 vs 1,118, JoSAA 2026).
- The 4-year UG median salary is almost the same: ₹18 lakh at IIT BHU and ₹17.78 lakh at IIT Madras (2024-25).
- Tuition is identical at ₹1,00,000 a semester.
- IIT Madras ranks higher in NIRF 2025 Overall (1 vs 31).
- IIT Madras ranks higher in NIRF 2025 Engineering (1 vs 10).
- IIT BHU has more 4-year B.Tech CSE seats (155 vs 87).
- Only IIT BHU offers Ceramic Engineering, Industrial Chemistry, Electronics Engineering, Mathematics and Computing among these two.
- Only IIT Madras offers Aerospace Engineering, Biological Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics, Computational Engineering and Mechanics among these two.
Worked out from the official numbers above.
Courses and seats
IIT BHU
- B.Tech (4 years)
- B.Arch (5 years)
IIT Madras
- B.Tech, B.S. and 5-year dual degree
- B.S. Medical Sciences and Engineering, B.S. Chemistry
- M.Sc, M.Tech, MBA, EMBA, M.A.
- MS (Research) and PhD
- Online B.S. in Data Science and Applications, B.S. in Electronic Systems
Seats per branch
| Branch | IIT BHU | IIT Madras |
|---|---|---|
| Ceramic Engineering | 75 | Not offered |
| Chemical Engineering | 170 | 104 |
| Civil Engineering | 160 | 111 |
| Industrial Chemistry | 24 | Not offered |
| Computer Science and Engineering | 155 | 87 |
| Electrical Engineering | 150 | 154 |
| Electronics Engineering | 155 | Not offered |
| Engineering Physics | 40 | 42 |
| Mathematics and Computing | 65 | Not offered |
| Mechanical Engineering | 190 | 144 |
| Metallurgical Engineering | 110 | Not offered |
| Biochemical Engineering | 25 | Not offered |
| Materials Science and Technology | 28 | 54 |
| Mining Engineering | 120 | Not offered |
| Pharmaceutical Engineering & Technology | 75 | Not offered |
| Biomedical Engineering | 21 | Not offered |
| Architecture (5-year Bachelor of Architecture) | 26 | Not offered |
| Aerospace Engineering | Not offered | 54 |
| Biological Engineering | Not offered | 30 |
| Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics | Not offered | 50 |
| Computational Engineering and Mechanics | Not offered | 40 |
| Instrumentation and Biomedical Engineering | Not offered | 40 |
| Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering | Not offered | 73 |
| B.S. Physics | Not offered | 12 |
| B.S. Mathematics | Not offered | 20 |
| B.S. Biological Science | Not offered | 30 |
| Aerospace Engineering, 5-year dual degree | Not offered | 9 |
| Engineering Design, 5-year dual degree | Not offered | 64 |
Source: JoSAA 2026 · JoSAA 2026
7 branches appear at both IIT BHU and IIT Madras. About JoSAA seat numbers →
JoSAA cutoffs: opening and closing ranks
OPEN closing ranks, 2024–2026. Lower is harder.
| Branch | IIT BHU | IIT Madras | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | |
| Aerospace Engineering | – | – | – | 2815 | 3211 | 3278 |
| Aerospace Engineering (5-yr) | – | – | – | 2984 | 2808 | 3389 |
| Architecture (5-yr) | 22390 | 20792 | 28480 | – | – | – |
| Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics | – | – | – | 419 | 306 | 226 |
| Biochemical Engineering | – | 13255 | 13511 | – | – | – |
| Biochemical Engineering with M.Tech. in Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology (5-yr) | 12761 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Bioengineering | – | 12759 | – | – | – | – |
| Bioengineering with M.Tech in Biomedical Technology (5-yr) | 14001 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Biological Engineering | – | – | – | 5755 | 5261 | 6440 |
| Biological Science | – | – | – | 10682 | 10290 | 12204 |
| Biomedical Engineering | – | – | 13196 | – | – | – |
| BS in Mathematics | – | – | – | – | – | 1804 |
| Ceramic Engineering | 12154 | 13064 | 14562 | – | – | – |
| Ceramic Engineering (5-yr) | 13931 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Chemical Engineering | 7757 | 8381 | 9512 | 3972 | 4116 | 4162 |
| Civil Engineering | 9339 | 10278 | 12331 | 5688 | 6112 | 6225 |
| Civil Engineering (5-yr) | 10583 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Computational Engineering and Mechanics | – | – | – | – | 1309 | 1314 |
| Computer Science and Engineering | 1071 | 1489 | 1439 | 159 | 171 | 151 |
| Computer Science and Engineering (5-yr) | 1510 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Electrical Engineering | 3608 | 3537 | 3879 | 838 | 849 | 749 |
| Electrical Engineering with M.Tech. in Power Electronics (5-yr) | 4619 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Electronics Engineering | 2826 | 2635 | 2809 | – | – | – |
| Engineering Design (5-yr) | – | – | – | 3656 | 3380 | 3093 |
| Engineering Physics | – | 8441 | 7798 | 1858 | 1441 | 1316 |
| Engineering Physics (5-yr) | 7764 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Industrial Chemistry | – | 12721 | 12340 | – | – | – |
| Industrial Chemistry (5-yr) | 12317 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Instrumentation and Biomedical Engineering | – | – | – | – | 4366 | 4011 |
| Metallurgical and Materials Engineering | 12524 | 10851 | 9905 | 4748 | 5499 | 5398 |
| Mathematics and Computing | – | 1924 | 1923 | – | – | – |
| Mathematics and Computing (5-yr) | 2154 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Mechanical Engineering | 6596 | 7286 | 8010 | 2310 | 2468 | 2619 |
| Mechanical Engineering (5-yr) | 7497 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Metallurgical Engineering | 10740 | 11398 | 12952 | – | – | – |
| Metallurgical Engineering (5-yr) | 11530 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Mining Engineering | 12876 | 14243 | 15019 | – | – | – |
| Mining Engineering (5-yr) | 14557 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering | – | – | – | 7404 | 7433 | 8354 |
| Pharmaceutical Engineering & Technology | 13562 | 14447 | 15894 | – | – | – |
| Pharmaceutical Engineering & Technology (5-yr) | 14463 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Physics | – | – | – | – | 3804 | 3918 |
| Physics (5-yr) | – | – | – | 2742 | – | – |
All categories and seat pools
| Institute | Branch | Category | Seats | Year | Round | Opening | Closing |
|---|
Source: josaa.nic.in, final rounds.
M.Tech (GATE) cutoffs
No verified GATE cutoffs yet. How M.Tech admission works →
CSE OPEN closing ranks: IIT BHU 1,439 (2026), IIT Madras 151 (2026). How to read cutoffs →
Fees
Fee waiver notes: IIT BHU: SC, ST and PwD: semester fee ₹6,050 (no tuition). Family income ₹1–5 lakh: one-third tuition (semester fee ₹39,683); below ₹1 lakh: tuition exempted (₹6,350).. IIT Madras: SC, ST and PwD: no tuition. Family income below ₹1 lakh: full tuition remission; ₹1–5 lakh: two-thirds remission (first-semester total ₹74,735)..
Hostel / mess fee: IIT BHU: Mess advance ₹16,500 every semester, on top of the semester fee. IIT Madras: Seat rent ₹7,500 per semester; hostel fee circular at fees.iitm.ac.in; advance mess charges depend on the mess tender.
Research, labs and projects
Notable labs / facilities
IIT BHU
- PARAM Shivay supercomputer (833 TeraFLOPS peak)
- Central Instrumentation Facility (CIF)
josaa.admissions.nic.in (JoSAA 2026 institute profile)
IIT Madras
- Sophisticated Analytical Instruments Facility (SAIF)
- Material Science Research Centre (MSRC)
- Central Electronics Centre (CEC)
- AQUA high-performance computing cluster (11,680 cores, 30 GPUs)
josaa.admissions.nic.in (JoSAA 2026 institute profile)
For industry consultancy, IIT Madras earns the most of the two. Sponsored vs consultancy →
IIT BHU: what these numbers mean
The semester fee is ₹1,06,350, and you add a mess advance of ₹16,500 each semester. SC, ST and PwD students pay ₹6,050 a semester instead. If your family income is ₹1–5 lakh, you pay one-third of the tuition, so the semester fee is ₹39,683. NIRF 2026 data reports 1,079 of 1,106 four-year graduates placed in 2024-25, at a median of ₹18 lakh. That is the highest placement count in this batch. Sponsored research was ₹86.32 crore and consultancy ₹38.27 crore in FY 2024-25. The PARAM Shivay supercomputer (833 TeraFLOPS peak) and a Central Instrumentation Facility are on campus. The campus sits inside BHU, so you also get the life and culture of a large university town.How to choose
- Check your rank against the cutoff table first. CSE OPEN closing ranks: IIT BHU 1,439 (2026), IIT Madras 151 (2026).
- 7 branches appear at both IIT BHU and IIT Madras. Compare the branch you want, not just the name.
- IIT BHU is in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh; IIT Madras is in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Think about distance from home.
FAQ
Which is better, IIT BHU or IIT Madras?
Neither is clearly better on paper: IIT BHU ranks 31 and IIT Madras ranks 1 overall (NIRF 2025). Compare the branch you can get.
Is the B.Tech fee the same at IIT BHU and IIT Madras?
Yes: ₹1,00,000 tuition per semester at both.
Which has better placements, IIT BHU or IIT Madras?
By median pay, IIT BHU leads (₹18 lakh against ₹17.78 lakh).
How many CSE seats do IIT BHU and IIT Madras have?
IIT BHU: 155. IIT Madras: 87.
Which does more research, IIT BHU or IIT Madras?
IIT Madras, by sponsored research money: ₹1,128.82 crore vs ₹86.32 crore.
Sources
- josaa.admissions.nic.in › InstProfile
- iitbhu.ac.in
- nirfindia.org › OverallRanking
- nirfindia.org › EngineeringRanking
- iitbhu.ac.in › nirf_2026_overall_report.pdf
- josaa.admissions.nic.in › InstProfile
- iitm.ac.in
- iitm.ac.in › NIRF_Overall_2026.pdf
- josaa.admissions.nic.in › openingclosingrankarchieve
- josaa.admissions.nic.in › CurrentORCR
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