IIT Guwahati - Admission 2025, Fees, Courses, Placement, Ranking

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati popularly known as IITG was established in 1994, is one of India's top engineering institutions. It has a 285-hectare large campus with beautiful scenery. It was ranked 7th in the engineering category and 7th in the overall category by NIRF in the year 2024. It provides 11 courses which include B.Tech, B.Des, M.Des, M.Tech, MA, M.Sc, MBA, and PhD degrees. Admissions are based on national-level entrance exams such as JEE Advanced, UCEED, CEED, GATE, and CAT, depending on the course. Admission for MTech for this year has closed, GATE applications for 2026 will start from August 2025 and the exam will be conducted in February 2026. For BTech admissions, JoSAA counseling is almost at its conclusion, the registered candidates can check their cutoff from the official site.

IIT Guwahati's highest salary offered was 2.05 crores per annum in 2024. The overall IIT Guwahati placement percentage was 71% in 2024. The total number of students during IIT Guwahati placements in 2024 was 1124. The average package stood at 37.75 LPA. Around 300 students received PPOs from top companies. The top recruiters at IITG include Uber, Apple, Microsoft, etc.

The Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati grants scholarships to its undergraduate and graduate students in order to encourage and reward academic success, as well as the general growth and development of deserving students who have completed their relevant qualifying examinations.

• Institute Merit Scholarship (IMS): IMS is accessible to the institute's B.Tech./B.Des./M.Sc./M.A. students. The scholarship is given to the year-by-year class toppers in all streams and is given starting in the second year. It provides a tuition cost remission and an eight-month fixed stipend.
• Merit-cum-Means (McM) Scholarships at the Institute: Institute merit-cum-means scholarships are provided to B.Tech./B.Des/M.Sc/MA students purely on the basis of merit-cum-means to up to 25% of non-SC/ST students. It provides a tuition cost remission and an eight-month fixed stipend.
• SC-ST Scholarships: Scholarships are granted to SC/ST students pursuing B.Tech./B.Des/M.Sc/MA degrees. It comprises an eight-month fixed salary, free messing, and a waiver of hostel seat rent. The tuition price for all SC/ST students is waived.
• Regular students (Indian nationals) in the PhD programme who have an M.Tech or M.Des degree are eligible for assistantships. Regular students (Indian nationals) who have a qualifying GATE, NET, or CEED score and are enrolled in M.Tech, M.Des, or PhD programmes are eligible for assistantships. For students having B.Tech/B.Des/M.Sc/M.A degrees from an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) with a minimum CPI of 8.0, the GATE/CEED/NET score criteria for assistantships is waived.

Imperative to fostering the co-curricular activities, are over 30 active clubs of IIT Guwahati that consistently provide much-needed impetus for growth in their cultural, technological and entrepreneurial endeavours. 

These clubs are always engaging in activities extending from local to international levels. Finance Club, Red Ribbon Club, Analytics and Consulting Club, and Rights and Responsibility Club are just a handful of the clubs that have developed significantly since their establishment. This diversity of groups contributes to an IIT-G student's well-rounded, adaptable, and passionate persona.

The Artificial Intelligence Community of IIT Guwahati

IITG's dedicated student community aims to improve student collaboration in AI research and development. The group takes part in a variety of competitions, hackathons, and other events. IITG has three delegates.. The AI Society placed second overall in the Bitgrit data science competition.

Projects under IITG

• RNN Neural Turing Machine

Implementation and testing of the Neural Turing Machine, a memory-assisted RNN-based architecture capable of inferring low-level algorithms.

• Animal AI-Olympics

The club created a new architecture that employs Proximal Policy Optimization for agent training and Behavior Cloning for incorporating Expert Trajectories.

• StyleGAN

A style transfer-inspired alternative generator architecture for generative adversarial networks that enhances the state-of-the-art in terms of established distribution quality criteria.

• Face2Text 

Face2Text is a model that takes a face image as input and uses facial traits and emotional state to describe the face in the form of a gramatically coherent text.

• Fake News Detection

For detecting, exploring, and interpreting fake information in online social media, a real-time detection system should be designed.

• R-CNN

Develop a performance analyzer for the batsman's shot using a variety of state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms applied to video data from cricket matches.

Robotics Club

The Robotics Club at IIT Guwahati's objective is to bring students together in a learning atmosphere and give them a space to work on large and small scale robotics projects to explore their interests in mechanical, electronic, and software design. The club us proud of their initiatives, whether they be autonomous bots, humanoids, swarms of tiny robots, robotic arms, or aerial vehicles.

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Events 

Alcheringa 

• Alcheringa is IIT-annual Guwahati's cultural festival, which has evolved to become the largest college cultural festival in North-East India in just 25 years, while also ranking among the top three college fests in the country.
• Managing an event with over 70 events and 1.3 lac attendees is no easy undertaking, and it is up to the students to make sure everything runs properly. 
• Working on such a large project exposes students to all of the issues they will face later in their careers. Students learn how to plan, execute, handle tense situations, and make quick, but logical decisions, as well as the value of teamwork, time management, and financial management.

Techniche 

• Techniche has completed 22 successful editions and is now one of the country's largest Techno-Management Festivals. 
• Techniche is made up of a variety of modules ranging from robotics to technical writing, workshops to industrial conclaves and lecture series, combining the best of both worlds in a stimulating setting for inspirational and competitive learning. 
• Interacting with the world's most powerful leaders and hearing their experiences firsthand provides students with crucial information as they try to shape their own destiny in this world. Australia's highest-paid consultant and management guru, as well as a Techniche guest professor.

Inter IIT Sports

• IIT Guwahati is well-equipped for major outdoor and indoor sports, with infrastructure that rivals any national stadium. 
• Students benefit from the intensive training they receive by developing a mindset that allows them to push above their limits and build an insatiable desire for perfection. Students put in long hours throughout the year in preparation for the Inter-IIT Sports Meet, which takes place in December. IIT Guwahati students have won numerous national-level sports tournaments and have exceptional records in various activities.

UDGAM United (IITG Annual Entrepreneurial Summit)

• This annual summit is organised by the 'Entrepreneurial Development Cell,' which brings together the experience of workshops, lectures, and exhibits of India's most promising entrepreneurs and start-ups, creating a culture of creativity and problem solving.