Joint Seat Allocation Authority 2023

(Refund Policy for Fee in respect of Undergraduate Students)

IIT Mandi follows a semester system. Each academic session is divided into two regular semesters of approximately 18 weeks durations. The first semester starts in early August and ends by the end of November/early December. The second semester runs from February to June.

The Institute offers undergraduate programs:

1.       B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering (CSE)

2.       B.Tech in Electrical Engineering (EE)

3.       B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering (ME)

4.       B.Tech in Civil Engineering (CE)

5.       B.Tech in Data Science and Engineering (DSE)

6.       B.Tech in Engineering Physics (EP)

7.       B.Tech in Bio-Engineering

8.       B.Tech in General Engineering

9.       B.Tech in Materials Science and Engineering

10.   B.Tech in Microelectronics & VLSI

11.   B.Tech in Mathematics and Computing

12.   Bachelor of Science (BS) in Chemical Sciences

The current annual intake (AY 2023-24) in undergraduate programme, including female supernumerary, is 520 (CE:50, CSE:80,, EE:70, ME:60, DSE: 50, EP: 30, Bio:30, GE: 30, MSE: 30, M&VLSI: 30, MC: 30, BSCS: 30). In addition to the under graduate programme,  IIT Mandi offers the following Post Graduate Programs: 1) M.Tech. in Materials and Energy Engineering 2) M.Tech in Structural Engineering 3)  M.Tech. in Communications and Signal Processing 4) M.Tech. in Power Electronics and Drives 5) M.Tech in VLSI 6) M.Tech. in Biotechnology 7) M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering 8) M.Tech in Fluid and Thermal Engineering 9) M.Tech in Electric Transportation 10) M.Sc. in Chemistry 11) M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics 12) M.Sc. in Physics 13) Integrated-Ph.D. (I-Ph.D.) in Physics 14) M.A. in Development Studies 15) MBA in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.

Currently, IIT Mandi has 1188 undergraduate B.Tech. students, 568 post graduate students (MA, MBA, MSc., M.Tech, I-PhD), 611 research scholars, of which 91 are doing MS/M.Tech degree (by research) and 520 are pursuing PhD. Currently, there are total 2367 students studying at IIT Mandi.

About the B. Tech Curriculum at IIT Mandi

The B. Tech curriculum is designed keeping in mind the need to produce well-rounded graduates many of whom will go on to join industry in technical or managerial roles, or to join the administrative services as technocrats, while a few may aspire to research careers. Some may even go on to become entrepreneurs. Thus, at IIT Mandi, a B.Tech. student is exposed to a broad range of knowledge and skills that builds on a  sturdy foundation of Engineering, basic sciences, humanities and social sciences. In the chosen BTech discipline, besides studying the core courses, the student will also study elective courses which will enable them to develop significant knowledge in a specialized area with exposure to research trends and developments. The category of free/open electives outside the chosen discipline will enable the student to obtain significant inter-disciplinary knowledge. A ‘Faculty Advisor’ guides the student throughout the entire duration of the program with regard to the planning of curriculum and other academic issues.

Realizing the current need of interdisciplinary skill development towards successful careers, IIT Mandi has introduced a Double Major program from 2021, by which a student of one discipline is allowed to obtain a second ‘Major’ by spending an extra one or two semesters to study approximately 12 courses of another discipline. For example, a student of Civil Engineering or Engineering Physics would be able to obtain a second major in Computer Science & Engineering. This would enable the student to sit for campus placements for CS-related companies as well!

The curriculum also allows specialization in a ‘Minor’ area, by taking a set of 3-4 courses in another discipline. For example, a Mechanical Engineering student can qualify for a minor in Applied Physics, German language, Intelligent Systems among others. A huge number of students pursue a minor in Management in preparation for admission to top MBA programs after their BTech.

The B. Tech. degree program allows a student to go on exchange visits of up to two semesters to other universities, both in India and abroad, for course work and projects. A number of B. Tech. students have already availed these opportunities to study at international institutions. IIT Mandi’s undergraduate students have visited IIT Madras and several European Union (EU) institutions under academic exchange program including the TU9 Universities in Germany, Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden, Aalto University in Finland and IT University in Denmark.

An important aspect of the curriculum is the integration of innovation and design into the learning process. This is achieved through signature courses of IIT Mandi’s curriculum that are extremely popular among the students. These courses include: ‘Reverse engineering’ , where student teams dismantle a common gadget/equipment, understand how it works and try to improve upon it;  ‘Design Practicum’ where student teams build novel engineering products over a semester; ‘Interactive Socio-Technical Practicum’ (ISTP) which exposes students to the complex interactions of technology and society, and familiarizes them with the necessity of taking stakeholders’ needs and opinions into account while formulating technical solutions. Interestingly, every year, a group of over 20 students from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), USA, visits IIT Mandi and joins IIT Mandi students in completing ISTP projects. The course thus has an inter-disciplinary and international collaboration component. Finally, during the fourth year, the students have the option of doing a Major Technical Project (MTP) that is expected to demonstrate a high degree of technical knowledge, innovativeness and maturity. The outcome of a B. Tech Project may be an innovative product or technology that addresses a problem of society, or it may be more theoretical or exploratory resulting in an advancement in the frontiers of knowledge.

Overall, the curriculum at IIT Mandi is designed to encourage and enable the student to become well-qualified and well-rounded engineers in all respects.

Credit system

IIT Mandi follows the credit system with continuous internal evaluation throughout the semester. Grades for each course is awarded on a 10-point scale. The overall performance is measured by the weighted grade point averages. A student has to attain a fixed minimum of Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) and earned credits to pass the B. Tech degree program.

Semester Long Internship in BTech Program

Internships play a crucial role in preparing students for future careers in the real world. IIT Mandi encourages students to take the opportunity to undertake a semester long internship after a few years of coursework. This semester internship will be optional for the students and can be undertaken after obtaining due permissions from the institute. The internship can be done only in recognized and reputed industries/companies, R&D institutions or academic institutions in India and abroad. The minimum duration for this internship should be at least 14-16 weeks.

Pass/Fail grade towards the degree requirement

Faculty Regular Pay Scale: 159

Visiting Faculty (including other categories) on consolidated Salary: 11

The main campus of IIT Mandi at Kamand has well equipped class rooms and computing facilities. Good teaching laboratories for Physics, Chemistry, Computer Sciences, Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Mechanical Engineering have been developed at Kamand campus.

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi, is equipped with a state-of-the-art National Knowledge Network (NKN) facility. IIT Mandi, at present, has ten sophisticated state-of-the-art interactive virtual classrooms and conference rooms (two large virtual classrooms with a seating capacity of 150 and eight virtual conference/meeting rooms). These rooms are capable of transmitting and receiving interactive high-definition video classes across the globe through the NKN backbone and eliminate the physical distance between teachers and students who are at different physical locations. These rooms are being used for conducting E-learning, classes, expert lectures, video conferences and interviews remotely from anywhere in the world. IIT Mandi is also in the process of constructing two new 350 capacity virtual lecture halls, conference rooms and a recording studio to cater to the academic & research requirements of the Institute.

IIT Mandi hosts a high-performance computational (HPC) facility with a cluster containing 169 nodes based on Intel Xeon processors that have 2884 processor cores, memory of 11.5 TB and a 986 TB storage space. In addition, the facility hosts a GPU cluster of 33 Nvidia graphical processing units (GPU) best suited for deep learning and molecular dynamics applications. The nodes are connected to each other through dedicated Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet. The facility has 400+ registered users from the research community of IIT Mandi working on applications including avalanche dynamics, multiphase flow modelling, engineering, biotechnology, molecular dynamics, computational chemistry, amongst others. The next phase expansion of the facility will include adding 1000 cores that will have high-speed InfiniBand inter-node connectivity and high-speed parallel file system.

IIT Mandi has a Central Library as well as the Satellite libraries, located in both campuses. For more detail, click on http://library.iitmandi.ac.in/

Major research centers:

IIT Mandi has research centers that are equipped on par with the best institutes in the nation and that cater to the needs of advanced research on materials, biosciences, electronics and innovation. These centers offer opportunities for B.Tech. students to work on certain projects and gain valuable first-hand experience from world-class researchers.

    Advanced Materials Research Centre (AMRC):  https://www.iitmandi.ac.in/research/amrc/

    BioX Centre @ IIT Mandi: https://www.iitmandi.ac.in/research/biox/

    Centre for Design & Fabrication of Electronic Devices (C4DFED): https://c4dfed.iitmandi.ac.in/

Other research/ teaching labs include:

School of Engineering: Mechanical Design Lab, Survey Lab, The thermo-fluids laboratory,  the structural analysis laboratory, and The Geotechnical lab

School of Computing and Electrical engineering: labs that cater to high performance computing, deep learning, communication engineering, distributed systems, electric drives, electric power, human-computer interaction, big data analytics, cognitive science, controls, machine learning, nano-electronics, power electronics, signal processing, Internet-of-Things, biomedical systems, device fabrication and VLSI design. For more detail, click on: http://iitmandi.ac.in/Schools/SCEE/index.php

 Catalyst: https://www.iitmandicatalyst.in/

Launched in 2016, IIT Mandi Catalyst is the first Technology Business Incubator (TBI) in the state of Himachal Pradesh. Supported by the Department of Science and Technology [GoI], HPCED, and Meity, Catalyst provides incubation support to technology-based startups focused on creating value and impact in the economic and/or social sector. Catalyst takes special interest in startups by IIT Mandi students. Upon satisfactory performance, Catalyst commits with a startup for one to two years with a funding support of up to INR 50 Lakhs under different schemes.

IKSMHA Centre: The IKSMHA Centre will focus on research on topics concerning IKS, which has several benefits for the human body, mental health and wellbeing. In fact, IKS has deep roots ground in Indian history, philosophy, society, arts, languages, sciences and technology and life sciences. IKS may incorporate the study of mind, brain and consciousness and include applications from several areas like consciousness studies, yoga, mediation, Ayurveda, traditional Indian medicine research and other Indian performing arts.  

IIT Mandi encourages students to cultivate their creativity in the form of various extra-curricular activities. Such activities are catered by Student Gymkhana of the Institute. The Student Gymkhana includes various societies viz. cultural, technical, literary and sports. Under these societies, there are different clubs which offer exploring specific interests and hobbies. The Cultural clubs include Art-Geeks, Music, Choreography, Dramatics, Photography etc. The technical section includes clubs such as Robotronics, Astronomy, Programming, Nirmaan, Yantrik etc. Notably, the institute has an annual cultural cum technical festival, known as EXODIA. As a part of this festival, students from renowned technical institutions from all over the country participate. Every year, IIT Mandi also participates in various inter-IIT activities and meets to show-case extracurricular activities of the institute. In the past, the students have represented IIT Mandi at the international level of sports and technical activities, and achieved a significant number of awards and prizes.

Research Society

ACM Chapter: Organizes hackathons and programming challenges in collaboration with the Programming Club. The events usually have a focus on open-source platforms.

SCRI aims at providing a collaborative platform for extensive, effective and sustainable research and innovations. SCRI is a platform to provide good opportunities for students of any field or Discipline and it gives exposure to Interdisciplinary Research areas. For more detail, click on: https://scri.iitmandi.ac.in/

Science and Technology council

The Science and Technology Council is headed by Technical Affairs Secretary; it has seven clubs under it as of now. Each club has its own activities and funding for giving students exposure to various technical activities through events both within and without the Institute. The major events for the SNTC are Inter-IIT Tech Meet, Avishkar, Utkarsh and events in other IITs and technical institutes.

The clubs under SNTC include Robotronics Club, Space Technology and Astronomy Cell (STAC), Programming Club,  SAE Collegiate, Entrepreneurship Development Cell (E-Cell) and Yaantrik Club.

IEEE: The club publishes reports and info about the research done in the field of electrical engineering.

Cultural Society, IIT Mandi

Cultural Society: The Cultural Society of IIT Mandi strives to attain and improve cultural diversity at the campus by organizing various cultural events and contests. Society provides various opportunities for the students to relax and enjoy amidst rigorous academics. The society also aims to curate artistic excellence among the students in various art forms. The society consists of 6 clubs viz., Music Club, Dance Club, Drama Club, Designing Club, Photography and Moviemaking Club and Fine Arts Club.

Literary Society

Literary society is an integral part of student's gymkhana coordinated by elected students' representative and advised by faculty member of the Institute. The LS emphasizes exposure to not only English literature but also regional and vernacular pieces as well through Open Houses, Youth Parliament, Poetry recitation, scribbles, crosswords and so on. The LS organizes various events and programs and encourages students to cultivate abilities of reading, writing, narrating and composition of literary pieces. The LS is responsible for editing and publication of Institute magazine, Vivaan. In the year 2019, the Literary Society started inter-college literary festival, Ruvaan. During Ruvaan, the Literary Society organized Modern United Nations and Kavyanjali (Kavi Sammelan) wherein the society invited several upcoming and established poets.

Literary Society Clubs include Quizzing Club, Debating Club, Writing Club

Sports Society:

 Sports is an integral part of campus life at IIT Mandi. From the very beginning, the Institute believed in the role of sports and other physical activities for the overall personality development of the students. Sports facilities here are diverse, both indoor and outdoor, along with the availability of experienced and dedicated coaches for most of the games. Program of the NSO (National Sports Organization) is an official sports program of IIT Mandi and is opted by many students as an extra-curricular activity. Each First-Year student gets an opportunity to choose one stream from NSO, NSS (National Service Scheme), or Hiking.

During previous years, students participate in various intra- and inter-institution sports meets and tournaments including the annual Inter-IIT Sports Meet that has witnessed increased contingent size over the years and distinguished performance in many fields by winning medals in individual as well as team events. Students are encouraged and supported generously to pursue their passion for sports at any level. Participation in state, national and international championships has also brought glory. Students at IIT Mandi won international medals in para-Olympic badminton and state championship in Table Tennis. An alumnus of the Institute currently holds the 3rd rank in international para-badminton and has won many medals at the national and international level, including his achievements of winning a silver medal in the World Championship 2019, and bronze medal in Asian Games 2018.

IIT Mandi has two campuses – South and North. Both campuses are well equipped with sports facilities and state-of-the-art equipment. Multiple facilities are available for Athletics, Football, Badminton, Table Tennis, Lawn Tennis, Squash, Swimming, Hockey, Volleyball, Basketball, weightlifting along with a Cricket field in the valley of the South Campus. There are well-equipped gyms and unique open-air gyms. Indoor games such as chess and bridge are also quite popular among the students. IIT Mandi Chess team made an entry to the Inter-IIT Sports Meet in 2019. Other than that, each hostel also has sports equipment for the use of the hostel residents. Two more clubs are unique, thanks to the Himalayan range within which the Institute is located: a Hiking and Trekking Club, and a Mountain Biking Club. Both clubs witnessed the growing participation of students with increased enthusiasm in recent years. Well-guided short treks and biking trips are organized frequently along with some multi-day trekking and camping endeavors. Finally, there are many long and short walking trails through the pristine mountain sceneries that can always be a part of everyday life: these walks present an opportunity to explore the natural beauty of the place, the flora and fauna, seasonal mountain springs, horseshoe bends of the river, and people living around and their lifestyles. 

Hiking and Trekking Club (HnT): Living in the Himalayas, has given us a major opportunity to explore its wondrous trails. Our club explores the various trails available in our state. In an attempt to expand our reach, we have recently conducted a trek in Uttarakhand as well. Several hikes and treks, of difficulty level easy to hard, are conducted each year. If you feel underprepared to trek, we have you covered! We organize a preparation camp before every trek. A boost to this preparedness is the survival camp which is organized yearly wherein activities such as rock climbing, river crossing, camping, etc. are organized. We organize talks as well as screen movies to keep your fire fueling! Apart from the treks themselves, we give you opportunities to hone your photography and writing skills through trek documentation.

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