The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are autonomous public institutes of higher education in India. The Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 lists twenty-three such institutes located at Bhilai, Madras, Delhi, Dhanbad, Dharwad, Goa, Guwahati, Jammu, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Bombay, Roorkee, Bhubaneswar, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, Indore, Jodhpur, Mandi, Palghat, Patna, Ropar, Tirupati and Varanasi.<br><br>Each IIT is an autonomous institution, linked to the others through a common IIT Council, which oversees their administration.<br><br>The IITs had a common admission process for undergraduate admissions, called IIT-JEE, which was replaced by Joint Entrance Examination Advanced in 2013.<br><meta content="cms.next" name="cmsei">