Joint Seat Allocation Authority 2022

Campus

IIT Palakkad is currently functioning from two locations 

a)    ‘Nila’ campus which is part of the main campus located at Pudussery, which is about 7 km from Palakkad on the Palakkad-Coimbatore highway, and

b)    a temporary campus within Ahalia Health Heritage and Knowledge Village in the Kozhipara locality is about 25 km from Palakkad railway station and 45 km from Coimbatore airport. 

Both campuses have fully functional academic settings, including well-equipped laboratories, classrooms and computing facilities, modern hostels for girls and boys, and sports and fitness amenities. Besides this, vibrant permanent campus with world-class sustainable green buildings is coming up on 500 acres of land bordering the Sahya Mountain range adjacent to the Coimbatore-Kanyakumari national highway. 

BTech Programme

IIT Palakkad offers BTech Programmes in four major engineering streams, that is. Civil Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Data Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. The current yearly intake is around 180 students. Please look at the admission brochure for more details regarding student experience and activities. You can take a glimpse of our academic programs here.

Orientation programme

The academic session for the new batch of students will start with an orientation programme. The primary aim of this programme is to help the students adapt to the new environment before academic rigour begins. A variety of student-centric activities will be part of this program.

BTech Programme

IIT Palakkad has a flexible credit-based curriculum for its programs. Each academic year has two main semesters. The monsoon semester runs from August to December and the winter semester runs from January to April. The BTech programme is of 8 semesters duration. The dynamic credit-based curriculum allows students to chalk out their graduation plans by offering diverse options to gain wider expertise. This includes taking courses outside their professional major, more open electives, options for minor, double major degrees, BTech-MTech dual degree and BTech Honours by Research options to gain breadth and depth. Highlights of the new UG curriculum can be found here. 

Every discipline has a curriculum consisting of core and elective courses that are carefully chosen to give a broad grip on the fundamentals of engineering and an in-depth understanding of the respective discipline. Every curriculum has a considerable number of elective courses under different pools. The students have the flexibility to choose the elective course based on their interests and aspirations. There is also a pool of Humanities, Social Science and other general courses which help the all-round development of the students.

There are plenty of opportunities for students to do various projects throughout the programme. The projects are intended to be student-driven, can be hands-on, and product development oriented to encourage start-up and entrepreneurship activities. Alternatively, research-driven projects can also be taken up for those who want to start research early on. The main aim is to allow students to steer their careers in their chosen paths. 

IIT Palakkad has a grading policy based on continuous assessment. Grades are awarded on a 10-point scale, and the academic performance is quantified by the Grade Point Average (GPA) and the Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA).

IIT Palakkad has set up the Central Instrumentation Facility (CIF), Central Micro-Nano Fabrication Facility (CMFF) and Chandra High-Performance Computing Cluster with the primary objective of supporting the research activities of its faculty, students, PhD scholars and Postdoctoral researchers. The facilities house a wide range of sophisticated analytical and fabrication equipment available to the research community. The facilities are envisaged to nourish collaborative research between IIT Palakkad and other academic and industrial organizations. 

IIT Palakkad is fully residential with separate hostels for girls and boys. In the Ahalia campus, there are five hostels. Students are provided accommodation on a twin-sharing basis, and all rooms have attached bathrooms. The hostel buildings and the academic building are situated within a radius of three hundred meters. In the Nila campus, the institute has three hostels, out of which two hostels have double/triple sharing rooms with common washrooms, and one hostel has triple sharing rooms with attached bathrooms. Hot water is provided through solar heaters. The necessary facilities like a spacious dining hall and a well-equipped recreational area, an indoor games area, a fitness centre, an RO-based drinking water system and a heavy-duty washing machine on each floor of the hostels were set in place. The other amenities provided in the last few years include an In-house facility for playing football, volleyball, basketball and table tennis. There are professional coaches for athletics, football, volleyball and cricket. The common space in the hostel is Wi-Fi enabled. The rooms have either WiFi or LAN connectivity. Each hostel has a common room for recreation with a television, newspapers and selected magazines. There are guest rooms for visitors to the Institute faculty, staff and students.

The institute has a mess each in the Ahalia and Nila Campus. In addition, the academic block at the Ahalia campus has a cafe, and the Ahalia campus also has several eateries. The institute also has an eatery at Kaapi (the amenities centre) in the Nila campus.

Student Wellness

A comprehensive medical insurance scheme covers all students for a nominal yearly subscription. IIT Palakkad has MoU with several hospitals in Palakkad for cashless medical care.

Professional counselling service is in place to provide professional help to students when they experience social/emotional issues. Two resident counsellors are available in the hostel to work in proximity to the students. This is in addition to the anonymous online counselling service for which the institute has tied up with a professional agency.

Career Development Centre

The Career Development Center (CDC) of IIT Palakkad employs significant efforts to refine the capabilities, personality and work readiness of students with the help of placement, training and career preparation workshops. To facilitate better career opportunities, CDC constantly engages with industry through internships, industry visits, Industry-Academia conclave, and hosting industry experts at the campus. A rigorous yet sufficiently flexible curriculum prepares students for the challenges in a competitive industrial environment. The centre is functional under a Faculty In-Charge, and the Training and Placement officer (TPO) is dedicated to the endeavour of grooming the students. 

Placement 2021-22

IIT Palakkad witnessed promising participation of companies in campus recruitment. A total of 211 companies participated in the campus recruitment program this year across the sectors, and 207 offers have been made for the academic year 2021-2022. The highest total package was INR 1.2 crore for the current placement season. Eight International offers were made from 4 companies with a global footprint. The major recruiters include Indeed, Texas Instruments, Adobe, AMD, MediaTek, Maruti Suzuki, MathWorks, Arista Networks, L&T Group, GE, Versa Networks, Wabtec Corp, Paytm, Deloitte, IBM, Cargill, Capgemini, Tejas Networks, ZVC India, ICICI Bank,  HCL, Intel, Qualcomm, Mercedes-Benz, Tata Group, OLA etc. A good number of core companies visited this current season and recruited the students.

Many of our graduates decided to pursue higher studies in reputed institutes such as Georgia Tech, University of Birmingham, Arizona State University,  Purdue University, North Carolina State University, Brown University, etc. These statistics stand as factual evidence of the skills of the students that our quality curriculum has nurtured.

Placements summary (UG)

Batch (2021-2022)	UG (B.Tech)
No. of students registered in the CDC portal for placement	110
No. of offers	130
No. of students placed	107
Placement percentage (based on no. of students registered)	97.27
Average CTC INR (in Lakhs)	15.21
Salary range INR (in lakhs)	4.2 to 120 per annum

Key Highlights (Placement)

1)    The highest total package was INR 1.2 crore for 2021-22.

2)    4 International Companies visited this placement season, Amazon (Dublin), Otsuka Corp., LinkStaff, and Tolaram Africa Foods Pvt. Ltd.

3)    L&T Group has made the maximum number of offers this year (18 Offers).

4)    The average CTC offered to the batch of 2022 was INR 13.93 Lakhs.

5)    21.98% increase in the average CTC for the year 2021-2022.

Internship 2021-22

More than 90 companies visited the campus for the academic year 2020-21 across sectors such as Research and Development, Information Technology, Core Engineering, Analytics, Government, and Consulting.

The participating companies made a total of 204 internship offers. The internship season saw participation from major recruiters like Adobe, Arista Networks, Sprinklr, MathWorks, Wabtec, Intel, Siemens, Texas Instruments, Telesto Energy, Formcept, UST Global, L&T Infotech, Strand Life Sciences, Qualcomm, Timken, William O'Neil, Sedemac Mechatronics, Startoon Labs Private Limited, nVipani Technology Solutions, TCS Research & Innovation, BEML etc

Key Highlights (Internship)

1)    Sprinklr offered INR 2 Lakh stipend per month per person to 2 students.

2)    Adobe offered INR 1 Lakh stipend per month per person to 4 students.

3)    UST Global has made a maximum of 15 internship offers.

International Relations

At IIT Palakkad, faculty members and students have been collaborating with universities globally since its inception. IIT Palakkad officially set up an Office of International Relations in 2021 and launched (https://ir.iitpkd.ac.in). This office oversees and coordinates the international activities on campus, like hosting international delegations, students and researchers, initiating research collaborations and formalising partnerships. We engage with embassy/consulates and government agencies like the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) and Educational Consultants India Limited (EdCIL) to initiate educational and cultural connections and provide opportunities for foreign students to pursue their studies at IIT Palakkad.  We also explore, collate, create and coordinate opportunities for our students to travel abroad to partner universities and benefit from the exposure to different academic, research, and cultural environments. In the past year, we have expanded our efforts to all geographical regions of the world.

Alumni 

IIT Palakkad has graduated four batches of undergraduate and postgraduate students as of 2022. The Alumni Cell of IIT Palakkad was founded in July 2019, and we have about 649 registered alumni. Even with such a relatively small strength, our alumni are already spread across the globe in various capacities. Academically, our alumni are in universities such as the University of California San Diego, Georgia Institute of Technology, Columbia University, University of Southern California, University of Texas at Austin, University of Zurich, Northwestern University, Pennsylvania State University, Arizona State University, University of California at Los Angeles and IIMs; as corporate professionals, our alumni are placed in industries such as Amazon, Samsung, GE, HSBC, VMware, AMD, Arista Networks, L&T, Daimler, OYO, PayTM, TCS, TRAI, ITI, etc. IIT Palakkad has an active Alumni Cell that constantly engages the Institute and the alumni community in various activities and interactions. The Alumni Cell has also established the first of its kind - undergraduate research and innovations award.