49 students dropped out of IIMs last year

As many as 49 students dropped out of IIMs in the 2015-16 academic year, highest being from IIM Rohtak, while 656 students left IITs, the government said. Ten students left IIM Rohtak, nine IIM Indore, eight IIM Raipur and seven IIM Kozhikhode. IIM Bangalore had four such cases, IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Lucknow three each, IIM Calcutta and IIM Shillong two each, while IIM Trichy had one. While actual reasons are not known but main reason for leaving newer IIMs can be aspirations to join better IIM next year. IIM have a relatively very high fees as compared to IIT so that might be the reason for low dropouts in IIMs ad compared to IITs. IIT Delhi saw 256 students dropping out, followed by IIT Kharagpur which had 198 such cases, IIT Kanpur – 47, IIT Madras – 35, IIT Mumbai – 34 and IIT Patna – 22, as per the data provided by Minister of State for HRD Mahendra Nath Pandey in reply to a question in Lok Sabha. High cutoffs in CAT exam and high Fees at all main IIMs ABC (15 lac plus) which could be strong deterent for leaving but still 21 students leaving older IIMs ABCLI is startling. IIMs are quiet on the actual reasons for leaving the coveted programs. Pandey said the number of drop outs from IIMs and IITs has come down due to proactive measures taken by these institutions. As per the data, 55 students had dropped out of 13 IIMs, while 1,126 had dropped out of 17 IITs in 2014-15.