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.