Even at Their Loosest Branch, IIT Bombay Still Beats IIT Madras

Bar chart comparing IIT Bombay and IIT Madras overall (any-branch) closing rank from 2016 to 2025.
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JoSAA official rank archive

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DATA · JOSAA OFFICIAL RANK ARCHIVE Even at Their Loosest Branch, IIT Bombay Still Beats IIT Madras IIT Bombay IIT Madras 0 5,000 10,000 15,000 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Closest they've been — still 1.2x apart 2025 4880 5116 5504 5640 5976 7430 8343 8849 9064 9353 9472 10290 10682 10982 11185 11418 11452 12762 OVERALL CLOSING RANK, ANY BRANCH (LOWER = HARDER) Overall closing rank = the loosest (highest-numbered) JEE Advanced rank that still won a seat, any branch, Open category, final round — the widest, most forgiving admissions bar each institute has. Solid bars are read directly from JoSAA's own rank archive; dashed bars are lower-confidence secondary figures where the primary archive wasn't reachable.