The Joint Entrance Exam conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology is for the first time going overseas. It will be held simultaneously in Dubai on April 13 next year.

Setting up a centre in Dubai is in line with the seven IITs asking the Union human resource development (HRD) ministry to encourage foreign students for a good mix of “unlike minds with different backgrounds” to enhance the academic environment and exchange on campuses.

According to data from IIT-Bombay, the nodal IIT co-ordinating JEE 2007, there were 120 foreign students who took the JEE last year. However merely six qualified. Over and above their capacity for BTech courses, the IITs can admit 10% as foreign students. In fact, last year, the IITs had evinced interest in taking the JEE outside the country. However, “due to logistical problems, that was not possible,” said an IIT official.

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