IIT admissions 2015: Important information for preparatory courses

The seat allocation process for preparatory courses at Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) was conducted on July 22. The candidates are allowed to accept the seats and go to their respective reporting centre up till 5 pm on July 26.
There are a total of 185 seats for preparatory courses, the institutes offering these courses are the host institutes, and the institutes to which the candidates will be admitted are the parent institutes.
The details for admissions for preparatory courses are mentioned below:

• Parent institutes for IIT BHU: IIT BHU (32 seats)
• Parent institutes for IIT Bombay: III Bombay (4 seats), IIT Gandhinagar (4 seats) and IIT Jodhpur (3 seats)
• Parent institutes for IIT Guwahati: IIT Guwahati (6 seats), IIT Patna (3 seats)
• Parent institutes for IIT Hyderabad: IIT Hyderabad (5 seats), IIT Indore (3 seats), IIT Bhubaneswar (2 seats)
• Parent institutes for IIT Kharagpur: IIT Kharagpur (36 seats)
• Parent institutes for IIT Madras: IIT Madras (17 seats), IIT Palakkad (1 seat), IIT Tirupati (2 seats)
• Parent institutes for IIT Roorkee: IIT Roorkee (17 seats), IIT Delhi (4 seats), IIT Kanpur (13 seats), IIT Mandi (2 seats), IIT Ropar (2 seats)
• ISM Dhanbad: 26 seats

The students are required to report to their host institute, and not the parent institute. After the completion of one academic year, the students will their parent, i.e. admitting institute.