JEE Main 2024 registration underway at jeemain.nta.ac.in; know newly launched BTech courses

NEW DELHI: The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2024 registration is underway. Eligible candidates can apply for JEE Mains 2024 on the official website, jeemain.nta.ac.in. The last date to apply for BTech entrance exam is November 30. National Testing Agency (NTA) will conduct JEE Main 2024 session 1 exams from January 24 to February 1.

Through JEE Main 2024, the engineering institutes such as National Institutes of Technology (NITs) will offer admissions to BTech programmes. While computer science engineering leads the BTech kingdom followed by electronics and communication, electrical, and mechanical engineering, the institutes have been launching new courses on the basis of increasing demands in the industry.

New BTech courses

Be it a central university and institutions or private colleges, new engineering programmes have been launched within the recent years which will admit students through JEE Main exam.

Last year, Delhi University’s faculty of technology introduced three BTech programmes — BTech Computer Science and Engineering, BTech Electronics and Communication Engineering, and BTech Electrical Engineering. The admissions were given on the basis of JEE Main scores.

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NIT Karnataka launched an engineering programme in artificial intelligence which commenced from the academic year 2021-22.

Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT) recently launched a one-of-its-kind BTech programme in computer science and financial technology. The course is offered by three departments including the department of humanities and management, computer science and engineering department, and mathematics department.

Earlier this year, MIT also launched new BTech programmes including BTech in mathematics and computer science and BTech in Electronics Engineering (VLSI design and technology).

IIT Delhi has announced to launch BTech in Industrial Design by the year 2025. The institute launched BTech in Engineering and computational mathematics in the year 2021. The admissions will be given through JEE Advanced exam. Students who qualify the JEE Main exam will be eligible for JEE Advanced.

In the year 2022, IIT Guwahati started a new BTech programme in energy engineering offered by the School of Energy Science and Engineering.