IIT Madras vs IIT Patna: Courses, Seats, Cutoffs, Fees, Placements and Research (2026)
IIT Madras attracts 9.3 times as much research funding (₹1,128.82 crore, FY 2024-25 vs ₹120.88 crore, FY 2023-24; different data years). IIT Madras does 21.3 times as much consultancy business (₹460.28 crore, FY 2024-25 vs ₹21.58 crore, FY 2023-24; different data years). IIT Madras employs 2.6 times as much faculty (720, NIRF 2026 vs 275, NIRF 2025; different data years).
Last updated: 14 Oct 2026.
Who should pick which (our analysis)
IIT Patna
Our analysis: IIT Patna suits you if you want options beyond a plain B.Tech. It has the widest set of dual degrees in this batch. These include B.Tech + M.Tech pairs in VLSI, Mechatronics, CSE and Structural Engineering, and B.Tech + MBA tracks with IIM Bodh Gaya and IIM Mumbai. Most dual-degree tracks have 5 to 15 seats, so read each one carefully before choosing.At a glance
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| Point | IIT Madras | IIT Patna | Source (year) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Established (year) | 1959 | 2008 | JoSAA 2026 institute profile |
| Location (city, state) | Chennai, Tamil Nadu | Bihta, Patna, Bihar | josaa.admissions.nic.in JoSAA 2026 institute profile |
| Campus area | 650 acres | 500 acres | JoSAA 2026 institute profile |
| Official website | iitm.ac.in | iitp.ac.in | iitm.ac.in |
| NIRF Overall rank | 1 | 36 | NIRF 2025 |
| NIRF Engineering rank | 1 | 19 | NIRF 2025 |
| B.Tech tuition per semester | ₹1,00,000 | ₹1,00,000 | 2026-27 |
| First-semester academic fees | ₹1,41,402 | ₹1,64,750 | 2026-27 |
| Fee waiver notes | 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). | SC, ST and PH: complete tuition waiver. Family income below ₹1 lakh: full remission; ₹1–5 lakh: two-thirds remission. | 2026-27 |
| Hostel / mess fee | Seat rent ₹7,500 per semester; hostel fee circular at fees.iitm.ac.in; advance mess charges depend on the mess tender | Hostel ₹6,500 per semester (first semester); mess charges paid separately | 2026-27 |
| Total JoSAA seats | 1,118 | 817 | JoSAA 2026 |
| UG 4-year median salary | ₹17.78 lakh | ₹19 lakh | 2024-25 2023-24 |
| UG 4-year placed / graduated | 631 placed of 781 graduates | 320 placed of 335 graduates | 2024-25 2023-24 |
| UG 5-year (dual) median salary | ₹22 lakh | Not published | 2024-25 |
| PG 2-year median salary | ₹15 lakh | ₹19.5 lakh | 2024-25 2023-24 |
| PG 2-year placed | 644 | 191 | 2024-25 2023-24 |
| UG 4-year went for higher studies | 147 | 15 | 2024-25 2023-24 |
| Total UG 4-year students | 3,733 | Not published | 2024-25 |
| Faculty count | 720 | 275 | NIRF 2026 NIRF 2025 |
| Full-time PhD students | 2,399 | 636 | 2024-25 2023-24 |
| Full-time PhDs graduated | 485 | Not published | 2024-25 |
| Sponsored research received | ₹1,128.82 crore | ₹120.88 crore | FY 2024-25 FY 2023-24 |
| Consultancy received | ₹460.28 crore | ₹21.58 crore | FY 2024-25 FY 2023-24 |
How IIT Madras and IIT Patna differ
- IIT Madras attracts 9.3 times as much research funding (₹1,128.82 crore, FY 2024-25 vs ₹120.88 crore, FY 2023-24; different data years).
- IIT Madras does 21.3 times as much consultancy business (₹460.28 crore, FY 2024-25 vs ₹21.58 crore, FY 2023-24; different data years).
- IIT Madras employs 2.6 times as much faculty (720, NIRF 2026 vs 275, NIRF 2025; different data years).
- IIT Madras has 3.8 times as much full-time PhD students (2,399, 2024-25 vs 636, 2023-24; different data years).
- IIT Madras has a 37% bigger JoSAA intake (1,118 vs 817, JoSAA 2026).
- The latest published 4-year UG median salary is ₹17.78 lakh at IIT Madras (2024-25) and ₹19 lakh at IIT Patna (2023-24). The years differ, so compare with care.
- Same tuition at both: ₹1,00,000 per semester.
- IIT Madras ranks higher in NIRF 2025 Overall (1 vs 36).
- IIT Madras ranks higher in NIRF 2025 Engineering (1 vs 19).
- IIT Madras has more 4-year B.Tech CSE seats (87 vs 86).
- Only IIT Madras offers Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Biological Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics among these two.
- Only IIT Patna offers Chemical Science and Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Mathematics and Computing, Electrical and Electronics Engineering among these two.
Worked out from the official numbers above.
Courses and seats
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
IIT Patna
- B.Tech (4 years)
- B.S. (4 years)
- Bachelor and Master of Technology (5 years, dual degree)
- Bachelor of Technology and MBA (5 years, dual degree)
- B.Tech. + M.Tech./MS (5 years, dual degree)
- Bachelor of Science and MBA (5 years, dual degree)
Seats per branch
| Branch | IIT Madras | IIT Patna |
|---|---|---|
| Aerospace Engineering | 54 | Not offered |
| Chemical Engineering | 104 | 70 |
| Civil Engineering | 111 | 70 |
| Computer Science and Engineering | 87 | 86 |
| Electrical Engineering | 154 | Not offered |
| Engineering Physics | 42 | 40 |
| Biological Engineering | 30 | Not offered |
| Mechanical Engineering | 144 | 86 |
| Metallurgical and Materials Engineering | 54 | 46 |
| Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics | 50 | Not offered |
| Computational Engineering and Mechanics | 40 | Not offered |
| Instrumentation and Biomedical Engineering | 40 | Not offered |
| Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering | 73 | Not offered |
| B.S. Physics | 12 | Not offered |
| B.S. Mathematics | 20 | Not offered |
| B.S. Biological Science | 30 | Not offered |
| Aerospace Engineering, 5-year dual degree | 9 | Not offered |
| Engineering Design, 5-year dual degree | 64 | Not offered |
| Chemical Science and Technology | Not offered | 40 |
| Electronics and Communication Engineering | Not offered | 50 |
| Mathematics and Computing | Not offered | 50 |
| Electrical and Electronics Engineering | Not offered | 50 |
| Artificial Intelligence and Data Science | Not offered | 50 |
| B.S. Economics | Not offered | 24 |
| Electronics and Communication Engineering and M.Tech. in Communication Systems (5-year Bachelor and Master of Technology dual degree) | Not offered | 10 |
| B.Tech (Chemical Science and Technology) - MBA in Hospital and Health Care Management (IIM Bodh Gaya) (5-year Bachelor of Technology and MBA dual degree) | Not offered | 5 |
| B.Tech (Civil Engineering) - MBA (IIM Bodh Gaya) (5-year Bachelor of Technology and MBA dual degree) | Not offered | 6 |
| B.Tech (Computer Science and Engineering) - MBA in Digital Business Management (IIM Bodh Gaya) (5-year Bachelor of Technology and MBA dual degree) | Not offered | 5 |
| B.Tech (Electronics and Communication Engineering) - MBA in Hospital and Healthcare Management (IIM Bodh Gaya) (5-year Bachelor of Technology and MBA dual degree) | Not offered | 5 |
| B.Tech (Engineering Physics) - MBA (IIM Bodh Gaya) (5-year Bachelor of Technology and MBA dual degree) | Not offered | 6 |
| B.Tech (Mathematics and Computing) - MBA in Digital Business Management (IIM Bodh Gaya) (5-year Bachelor of Technology and MBA dual degree) | Not offered | 5 |
| B.Tech (Metallurgical and Materials Engineering) - MBA (IIM Bodh Gaya) (5-year Bachelor of Technology and MBA dual degree) | Not offered | 6 |
| B.Tech (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) - MBA (IIM Bodh Gaya) (5-year Bachelor of Technology and MBA dual degree) | Not offered | 6 |
| B.Tech (Artificial Intelligence and Data Science) - MBA in Digital Business Management (IIM Bodh Gaya) (5-year Bachelor of Technology and MBA dual degree) | Not offered | 5 |
| B.Tech (Chemical Engineering) - MBA in Hospital and Health Care Management (IIM Bodh Gaya) (5-year Bachelor of Technology and MBA dual degree) | Not offered | 5 |
| B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering) - MBA (IIM Mumbai) (5-year Bachelor of Technology and MBA dual degree) | Not offered | 15 |
| B. Tech in CE. - M. Tech. in Geotechnical Engineering (5-year B.Tech. + M.Tech./MS dual degree) | Not offered | 10 |
| B. Tech in CE. - M. Tech. in Structural Engineering (5-year B.Tech. + M.Tech./MS dual degree) | Not offered | 10 |
| B. Tech. (CSE) and M.Tech in CSE (5-year B.Tech. + M.Tech./MS dual degree) | Not offered | 10 |
| B. Tech. (ECE) -M. Tech. in VLSI (5-year B.Tech. + M.Tech./MS dual degree) | Not offered | 10 |
| B. Tech. (EEE)-M. Tech. in (Power &. Control) (5-year B.Tech. + M.Tech./MS dual degree) | Not offered | 10 |
| B. Tech. (Mathematics & Computing) M. Tech. in (Mathematics & Computing) (5-year B.Tech. + M.Tech./MS dual degree) | Not offered | 10 |
| B. Tech. (ME) - M. Tech. in Mechatronics (5-year B.Tech. + M.Tech./MS dual degree) | Not offered | 10 |
| B.S. Economics with MBA (IIM Bodh Gaya) (5-year Bachelor of Science and MBA dual degree) | Not offered | 6 |
Source: JoSAA 2026 · JoSAA 2026
IIT Madras and IIT Patna share 6 branch names; the rest are offered by only one of them. About JoSAA seat numbers →
JoSAA cutoffs: opening and closing ranks
OPEN closing ranks, 2024–2026. Lower is harder.
| Branch | IIT Madras | IIT Patna | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | |
| Aerospace Engineering | 2815 | 3211 | 3278 | – | – | – |
| Aerospace Engineering (5-yr) | 2984 | 2808 | 3389 | – | – | – |
| Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics | 419 | 306 | 226 | – | – | – |
| Artificial Intelligence and Data Science | – | – | – | 4346 | 4312 | 4574 |
| B.Tech (Artificial Intelligence and Data Science) - MBA in Digital Business Management (IIM Bodh Gaya) (5-yr) | – | – | – | 4864 | 4679 | 5859 |
| B.Tech (Chemical Engineering) - MBA in Hospital and Health Care Management (IIM Bodh Gaya) (5-yr) | – | – | – | 13111 | 15010 | 15090 |
| B.Tech (Chemical Science and Technology) - MBA in Hospital and Health Care Management (IIM Bodh Gaya) (5-yr) | – | – | – | 14176 | 16163 | 17079 |
| B.Tech (Civil Engineering) - MBA (IIM Bodh Gaya) (5-yr) | – | – | – | 15129 | 15570 | 15115 |
| B.Tech (Computer Science and Engineering) - MBA in Digital Business Management (IIM Bodh Gaya) (5-yr) | – | – | – | 3427 | 4297 | 5725 |
| B. Tech. (CSE) and M.Tech in CSE (5-yr) | – | – | – | 4429 | 4323 | 4432 |
| B. Tech. (ECE) -M. Tech. in VLSI (5-yr) | – | – | – | 6253 | 7742 | 6809 |
| B. Tech. (EEE)-M. Tech. in (Power &. Control) (5-yr) | – | – | – | 7605 | 8283 | 8731 |
| B.Tech (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) - MBA (IIM Bodh Gaya) (5-yr) | – | – | – | 7575 | 8351 | 9366 |
| B.Tech (Electronics and Communication Engineering) - MBA in Hospital and Healthcare Management (IIM Bodh Gaya) (5-yr) | – | – | – | 7070 | 8739 | 8829 |
| B.Tech (Engineering Physics) - MBA (IIM Bodh Gaya) (5-yr) | – | – | – | 12375 | 12995 | 12628 |
| B. Tech in CE. - M. Tech. in Geotechnical Engineering (5-yr) | – | – | – | 15274 | 16815 | 17820 |
| B. Tech in CE. - M. Tech. in Structural Engineering (5-yr) | – | – | – | 14055 | 15381 | 17261 |
| B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering and M.Tech. in Communication Systems (5-yr) | – | – | – | 6660 | 7786 | 6950 |
| B.Tech (Mathematics and Computing) - MBA in Digital Business Management (IIM Bodh Gaya) (5-yr) | – | – | – | 5445 | 5192 | 6293 |
| B. Tech. (Mathematics & Computing) M. Tech. in (Mathematics & Computing) (5-yr) | – | – | – | 5683 | 5266 | 5854 |
| B. Tech. (ME) - M. Tech. in Mechatronics (5-yr) | – | – | – | 9835 | 10153 | 10711 |
| B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering) - MBA (IIM Mumbai) (5-yr) | – | – | – | 9445 | 9708 | 9006 |
| Biological Engineering | 5755 | 5261 | 6440 | – | – | – |
| Biological Science | 10682 | 10290 | 12204 | – | – | – |
| BS in Economics with MBA (IIM Bodh Gaya) (5-yr) | – | – | – | 9961 | 13325 | 15050 |
| BS in Mathematics | – | – | 1804 | – | – | – |
| Chemical Engineering | 3972 | 4116 | 4162 | 12519 | 13715 | 14174 |
| Chemical Science and Technology | – | – | – | 14062 | 15406 | 15919 |
| Civil Engineering | 5688 | 6112 | 6225 | 14579 | 15400 | 16097 |
| Computational Engineering and Mechanics | – | 1309 | 1314 | – | – | – |
| Computer Science and Engineering | 159 | 171 | 151 | 3144 | 3377 | 3635 |
| Economics | – | – | – | 11437 | 13720 | 14550 |
| Electrical and Electronics Engineering | – | – | – | 6873 | 7502 | 7827 |
| Electrical Engineering | 838 | 849 | 749 | – | – | – |
| Electronics and Communication Engineering | – | – | – | 5732 | 6167 | 6026 |
| Engineering Design (5-yr) | 3656 | 3380 | 3093 | – | – | – |
| Engineering Physics | 1858 | 1441 | 1316 | 12031 | 12986 | 12425 |
| Instrumentation and Biomedical Engineering | – | 4366 | 4011 | – | – | – |
| Metallurgical and Materials Engineering | 4748 | 5499 | 5398 | 15323 | 16510 | 17179 |
| Mathematics and Computing | – | – | – | 4952 | 4851 | 5320 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 2310 | 2468 | 2619 | 10647 | 11758 | 12088 |
| Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering | 7404 | 7433 | 8354 | – | – | – |
| 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 Madras 151 (2026), IIT Patna 3,635 (2026). How to read cutoffs →
Fees
Fee waiver notes: 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).. IIT Patna: SC, ST and PH: complete tuition waiver. Family income below ₹1 lakh: full remission; ₹1–5 lakh: two-thirds remission..
Hostel / mess 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. IIT Patna: Hostel ₹6,500 per semester (first semester); mess charges paid separately.
The first-semester bill is higher at IIT Patna than at IIT Madras by ₹23,348. How fee waivers work →
Research, labs and projects
Notable labs / facilities
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 Patna: what these numbers mean
The first-semester fee is ₹1,64,750, and later semesters are ₹1,25,000. Mess charges are paid separately. SC, ST and PH students get a complete tuition waiver. Families earning under ₹1 lakh get full remission, and those earning ₹1–5 lakh get two-thirds off. The NIRF 2025 data (on nirfindia.org) shows 320 of 335 four-year graduates of 2023-24 placed, at a median of ₹19 lakh. That is one of the strongest placement ratios in this batch. Sponsored research was ₹120.88 crore and consultancy ₹21.58 crore in FY 2023-24. The campus also runs an Incubation Centre with MeitY for student and faculty start-ups. Use the cutoff table to compare the regular B.Tech with its dual-degree version.How to choose
- Start with the cutoffs: can your rank reach the branch you want? CSE OPEN closing ranks: IIT Madras 151 (2026), IIT Patna 3,635 (2026).
- IIT Madras and IIT Patna share 6 branch names; the rest are offered by only one of them. Look for your branch in both lists.
- The first-semester bill is higher at IIT Patna than at IIT Madras by ₹23,348. How fee waivers work →
- IIT Madras is in Chennai, Tamil Nadu; IIT Patna is in Bihta, Patna, Bihar. City and cost of living count too.
FAQ
Which is better, IIT Madras or IIT Patna?
IIT Madras is ahead in NIRF 2025 Overall (1 vs 36). At this level the gap is small, so pick on branch and fit.
Is the B.Tech fee the same at IIT Madras and IIT Patna?
Tuition matches at ₹1,00,000 a semester.
Which has better placements, IIT Madras or IIT Patna?
UG medians: IIT Madras ₹17.78 lakh, IIT Patna ₹19 lakh.
How many CSE seats do IIT Madras and IIT Patna have?
IIT Madras: 87. IIT Patna: 86.
Which does more research, IIT Madras or IIT Patna?
IIT Madras brings in more sponsored research (₹1,128.82 crore).
Sources
- josaa.admissions.nic.in › InstProfile
- iitm.ac.in
- nirfindia.org › OverallRanking
- nirfindia.org › EngineeringRanking
- iitm.ac.in › NIRF_Overall_2026.pdf
- josaa.admissions.nic.in › InstProfile
- iitp.ac.in
- nirfindia.org › IR-O-U-0064.pdf
- josaa.admissions.nic.in › openingclosingrankarchieve
- josaa.admissions.nic.in › CurrentORCR
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