India, March 10 -- The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras on Monday announced two seats in its undergraduate (UG) courses for students excelling in national and international Olympiads.

The admissions under 'Science Olympiad Excellence' (ScOpE) category will be outside the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) framework with the students to be admitted from the academic year 2025-2026 academic session, the institute said in a press statement.

Like admissions through sports excellence admissions (SEA) for athletes and fine arts and culture excellence (FACE) for those who "achieved excellence in fine arts and culture", the institute will add two extra seats in all programmes under the ScOpE category, of which one seat will be exclusiv...