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IIT Bombay Mandates Pass–No Pass Wellness Course, Hosts National Wellbeing Conclave

The programme replaces grades with attendance-based workshops to ease pressure on first-year students.

Overview

  • Implemented in August 2025, the first-year course requires four wellness workshops per semester to earn a pass, with no grades or exams.
  • The institute reports 1,397 first-year students reached through 122 workshops, with more than 2,400 students engaged across wellbeing initiatives in under six months.
  • A formal support network pairs one faculty mentor with about 14 students and deploys 895 trained senior-student mentors at roughly a 1:10 ratio.
  • IIT Bombay is hosting the National Wellbeing Conclave 2025 on November 22–23 with about 80 higher-education institutions, 140 faculty members and 130 students for symposia, panels and training.
  • Alongside the course, the institute is piloting activity-oriented teaching and assessment reforms, with about 60 courses using new pedagogy and further changes under exploration with international partners.