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    IIT Delhi DoMS: 20% seats vacant at ‘top’ B-school or fudged placement data? NIRF raises questions

    Maheshwer PeriUpdated on 15 Sep 2025, 12:49 PM IST
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    To the Careers360 investigative report on MBA offered by Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), there has been a response from the IITs, especially IIT Delhi. The question that we were asking was whether Departments of Management Studies (DoMS) of the IITs are indeed better than the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), as ranked by the NIRF. And the answer is still a loud NO. The DoMS of IITs haven’t beaten the IIMs on merit or student outcomes but more by data presentation, data manipulation and even faking data.

    IIT Delhi DoMS: 20% seats vacant at ‘top’ B-school or fudged placement data? NIRF raises questions
    IIT Delhi DoMS: 20% seats vacant at ‘top’ B-school or fudged placement data? NIRF raises questions

    Let us look at data and how it has changed over the years:

    Academic Year

    Sanctioned intake

    Actual admitted

    Graduated

    Placed

    % Placed/ Sanctioned

    2016-17

    115

    91

    91

    91

    79%

    2017-18

    115

    111

    111

    111

    97%

    2018-19

    115

    68

    68

    68

    59%

    2019-20

    144

    129

    124

    124

    86%

    2020-21

    144

    117

    112

    112

    78%

    2021-22

    144

    128

    124

    124

    86%

    2022-23

    144

    93

    89

    89

    62%

    Total

    921

    737

    719

    719

    78%


    1. The IITs are unable to fill their MBA seats, in a country where 5 lac students enrol for MBA and 2500+ students score 99 percentile in CAT, IIT Delhi could only fill in 80% of its seats. An examination of the past 7 years data suggests that while the sanctioned intake across these 7 academic years was 921 students, the actual admitted students was just 737 students or 80.02% of the sanctioned intake. You will never see this anomaly in the IIMs where even the last seat is taken. In fact, you will not see this data even in IITs for their B.Tech offerings.

    2. With the actually admitted students reduced to 80% of the sanctioned intake, it was responsible for placing only so many students. So, of the 737 students that DMS of IIT Delhi admitted, only 719 students passed and all 719 students were also placed, thus claiming a 100% placement.

    3. The question that bothered us is why DMS of IIT Delhi, which claims to be the 4th best B school in India could not admit to full capacity? For the year 2022-23, they could admit only 93 students from a sanctioned intake of 144 (64.58%). In fact, even in the year 2018-19, the institute admitted just 68 students from a sanctioned 115 (59.13%).

    4. The devil is in the details. For the years 2022-23 and 2023-24, IIT Delhi had a sanctioned capacity of 144 and 158, respectively. This totals to 302. In the column on the gender ratio, the institute declared 165 boys and 137 girls, totalling 302 students. This meant the institute had actually filled in 100% of its seats as it also knew the gender of all the 302 students. This included 144 seats for the year 2022-23.

    5. However, when it came to declaring placements, IIT Delhi declared that only 93 students were admitted and showed 89 students getting placed. But they had already declared the gender ratio of the 144 students! And if we consider the disclosure on gender of admitted students, the total number of students admitted was 144 of whom 89 students were placed. That is a placement of 62% only.

    Looking at this data, this is what is clear:

    1. If DoMS IIT Delhi, which is the 4th best B School in the country, could not fill in 20% of its seats, we should all be really concerned.

    2. If DoMS IIT Delhi isn’t able to place the students that it actually admitted (proven by Point 5 above), we should be worried.

    3. If DoMS of IIT Delhi is actually faking data when it concerns placements just to show a 100% placements, it should be investigated.

    In any case, students and parents deserve a lot more clarity and many answers.

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