India, July 2 -- Is a degree from an elite institution like IIT Bombay actually worth it, especially in the day and age of AI? This is the question that Shikhar Agrawal, co-founder and CEO of Anahad, faces very frequently. In a LinkedIn post shared yesterday, Agrawal argued that many people misunderstand the true return on investment (ROI) of studying at an institution like IIT.

"It's been 5 years now since I left IIT Bombay, built Anahad but people still ask me, 'IIT actually worth it tha? Or just hype?'" he claimed in his post. Many people, he said, ask whether AI has made a degree redundant to some extent by making information more accessible/

"Especially now, when AI can explain almost anything, information is free & a degree doesn'...