A survey conducted on the IIT-Bombay campus for freshmen found 95% students had never had sex, but about 30% of them were in a relationship. Inspired by the Harvard Crimson freshmen survey, IIT-B's student newspaper — Insight — conducted a survey to appreciate the diversity of a freshman batch welcomed to the campus. The Powai campus for the first time looked at the beliefs and lifestyles of its incoming batch to find that most students were moderately liberal when it came to their political views and 75% of them were comfortable with the idea of homosexuality and/or homosexual marriages.

Life before IIT-B was largely about JEE, with 40% spending four to seven hours daily and 30% dedicating between 7 and 12 hours to prepare. Of those who cracked the exam, 21% took a year's drop from school to solely train for the JEE.

"For nearly all our respondents, their own expectations put pressure on them to crack the JEE," the survey found. For all the hullabaloo over IIT fees, it is interesting to note that nearly 75% students spent up to Rs 2.5 lakh on JEE coaching. But all that burnt them out and 50% of them, now having entered IIT-B, don't feel like putting effort into academics.

Students plan to study for an average of 1.4 hours every day at IIT-B, the study noted. Later, after passing out, 32% expect their first annual salary to be in the range of Rs 10 lakh - Rs 25 lakh. Then there are those, about 11%, who expect a yearly compensation of more than Rs 60 lakh. And a decade after graduation, while 72% of them would continue to be in engineering some don't have a clue and many others want to be entrepreneurs.