Six Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have eliminated the opportunity for students to switch branches at the conclusion of their first year in an effort to relieve student stress. The total number of IITs that have stopped the practice now stands at nine.
If they reach the appropriate cut-off for the Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) score in the first year, students at IITs can use the branch-change option to transfer to a different engineering stream at the conclusion of the first two semesters. Generally, the cut-off marks for each IIT branch to admit students from different streams vary.
IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Dhanbad, IIT Dharwad, IIT Mandi, and IIT Bhubaneswar have all discontinued this practice as of this year. IIT Jammu, IIT Hyderabad, and IIT Bombay all stopped operations.
