Given the extraordinary situation this year due to the pandemic, IIT Gandhinagar has split the first year of instruction in an innovative manner into three terms covering the essential core curriculum of the first year and also focusing on the overall development of students. Term I will be conducted in an online mode; the mode of other terms will be announced in due course.

This special academic calendar for the first year is:

With this new academic calendar, the fees structure is as follows:

^a Mess and Laundry Advance Fee & Hostel Seat Rent, Utilities, etc. will only be applicable when

students are physically on campus

^b Mess and Laundry Advance Fee is estimated based on current rates and are subject to change.

^c  Refundable security deposit is Rs. 5000 and one-time admission fees is Rs. 6500.

^d Fees amount received by the Institute from JOSAA will be adjusted against this amount and the

balance amount will be due by December 15, 2021.

Please Note:

1. The institute has extended the full tuition fee waiver/reimbursement facility to UG students having annual parental income of up to Rs. 2.5 lakhs. Students whose family income is between Rs. 2.5 lakh to Rs. 5.0 lakhs per annum, shall pay only 1/3rd of the tuition fee. 
2. The students whose annual family income is less than Rs. 9,00,000/- shall have access to interest free loan under the Vidyalaxmi scheme for the total portion of the tuition fee payable.
3. Further, students may request financial support as scholarships, grants, and loans.

IIT Gandhinagar offers 4-year BTech programmes in Chemical, Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, Computer Science, and Materials Engineering. The curriculum is futuristic and focuses on the overall development of students. It emphasizes learning-by-doing and includes significant exposure to the humanities and social sciences, mandatory courses in life sciences and design, and several options for students to explore their interests through a large number of electives and project courses. Active learning and exploration are emphasized over older, routine pedagogical approaches.

Flexibility is built into the curriculum with numerous electives, liberal branch change norms, various “minor,” “honours,” and dual-major programs, as well as many short courses offered by guest scholars.

Dual-Major Programme

Students can also opt for a Dual-Major Programme during their course of study to earn an additional BTech degree in a second branch of their choice. For example, a student in Chemical Engineering could opt for a second BTech in Computer Science.

Dual-Degree Programme

Students can also choose to sign up for the Dual-Degree Programme that enables students to get an MTech or an MSc degree in a branch of their choice (possibly different from their BTech branch) in addition to the BTech degree usually by spending an additional year. Two separate degrees are awarded upon successful completion of the requirements of the two programmes.

 Minors Programme

A student enrolled in any branch can opt for a minor by completing additional relevant courses. The following minors are currently available at IIT Gandhinagar.

●      Engineering: Biological Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Earth Sciences

●      Sciences: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Cognitive Sciences

●      Specialized Areas: Data Analytics, Automobile Engineering, Robotics, Sustainable Development, Safety Engineering

●      Other Areas: Humanities and Social Sciences, Management, Design

For example, a student in Mechanical Engineering can opt for a Minor in Computer Science and/or Management.

 Honours Programme

A provision of Honours is available to all students as an add on to the B.Tech. degree. Students can enroll for additional courses and projects in addition to the minimum requirements of B.Tech. degree to enhance the core competence in their discipline and earn B.Tech. with honors.

 Other Academic Programmes

Undergraduate students also have significant opportunities for additional learning through various internships both in India and abroad. Nearly 40% of the undergraduates spend time overseas, largely in the form of summer internships, undertaking research at leading universities around the world thereby gaining global exposure. Many students also take up internships in industry, thus bringing a real-world, application-oriented perspective to their education. These programmes are supported through generous scholarships.

For more details visit: https://www.iitgn.ac.in/academics/

IIT Gandhinagar is a truly global environment for student learning. The institute has recruited world-class faculty members trained at some of the world’s leading institutes. These include MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Purdue, Cambridge, Michigan, Imperial College, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech, Penn State, Wisconsin, UT Austin, Cornell, Illinois, Max Planck, Harvard, Warwick, as well as prestigious Indian Institutions, such as IISc, IISERs and IITs. More than 80% of the faculty members have been trained abroad either at the doctoral or the postdoctoral level.

A vibrant visiting faculty program and a flexible short-course structure exposes students to scores of prominent scholars and professionals from all over India, as well as abroad. Faculty are welcoming, friendly, and approachable.

For more details about faculty at the Institute visit: https://www.iitgn.ac.in/faculty

The campus has world-class hostel and academic infrastructure and is largely self-sufficient with most daily needs and services available within the campus.

Hostels: IIT Gandhinagar has centrally air conditioned and furnished hostels that are designed to be inviting for students to engage in interactions across disciplines and to create a healthy culture. The hostels are a place of constant innovation, with facilities aimed at overall development of the student. Dining facilities are available in hostel messes. Other amenities within the hostel premises are:

●      Convenience shops and eateries serving a variety of cuisines, snacks, and daily needs.

●      Mini Library (providing a reading zone to students within the hostel premises).

●      Night-time air conditioning in all hostel rooms.

●      Laundry services included in the “Mess and Laundry” charges with unlimited washing and ironing facility.

●      A pantry on each floor of each hostel equipped with refrigerator, microwave oven and induction stove.

●      Student lounge, with recreation facilities, such as a snooker table.

●      Music room, art room, and common rooms.

●      Sports courts and facilities for student recreation.

●      A newly built clay studio for expression of student creativity.

●      Distributed spaces for student into tinkering and innovations.

Computing and Connectivity: IITGN has state-of-the-art computing infrastructure, labs with networked multi-core computers and a high-performance computing (HPC) platform for advanced research and teaching in computational areas.

Library: The library possesses a rich collection of books, research journals, and electronic resources in varied areas. Library electronic resources are accessible from anywhere on campus.

Labs: The Institute has cutting-edge teaching and research laboratories in numerous areas, including electronics, robotics, physics, chemistry, image processing, fiber-optics, biomedical engineering, VLSI, power systems, civil engineering, materials engineering, nanotechnology, etc., to expose students to the latest research in different areas of science and engineering.

Sports: Grounds for football, cricket, outdoor courts for volleyball, badminton and basketball, as well as indoor facilities for, table-tennis, gym, etc. are available. A brand-new sports complex is nearing completion with Olympic size swimming pool, a modern gym, squash courts, a rock-climbing wall, cricket and football grounds with floodlights, etc. Sports coaches are available to train students. Participation in sports activities is highly encouraged. 

Bank and Post: Canara Bank is located within the campus and postal services through Indian Post and private logistic agencies are available at the campus on payment basis.

Award-winning Campus: IITGN campus is the first campus in the country to receive a five-star GRIHA-LD rating for its numerous sustainability and energy efficiency measures. The institute is the first and only academic campus to be awarded a five-star Eat Right Campus award by FSSAI for its hygienic, safe, healthy, nutritious, local & seasonal food choices.

Medical Facilities: A 24-hour ambulance is available for emergencies. Qualified medical practitioners are available on the institute premises for several hours every day. Hospitalization expenses of all students are covered under a medical insurance policy._Three trained nurses (two male and one female) are on staff full-time to provide emergency first aid and routine medical services. A fully equipped Physiotherapy Centre is also operational on campus.

Counselling Services: A dedicated counselling team of counsellors are available on campus. They oversee the emotional and psycho-social wellbeing of the entire campus community, including students, staff and faculty. More information at: http://sites.iitgn.ac.in/counselling/

IIT Gandhinagar’s student centric approach emphasizes student responsibility, independence, and physical and emotional wellbeing. IITGN prides itself in maintaining a ragging-free campus and a high level of ethical conduct in all academic and non-academic matters. Along with rigorous academic training, students pursue a large number of additional curricular and extracurricular activities (through several student clubs, sports camps, and other initiatives) for their holistic development. Several student festivals and events are celebrated on campus, including Blithchron, Amalthea, Jashn, Ignite, Halla Bol, Winter Carnations, etc.

Friendly and professional staff are available to help students with their various needs both in hostels and other areas.

Student emotional wellbeing is a high priority at IIT Gandhinagar. The Institute has very proactive counselling services consisting of professional counsellors, faculty advisors, student guides and other supporting mechanisms to keep in close touch with each individual student.

More information available at: https://www.iitgn.ac.in/student/lifeoncampus/

Flagship Programs: 

Foundation Programme

The institute’s flagship Foundation Programme is now being emulated by several IITs and other colleges. This programme nurtures students’ creativity, communication skills, ethics, physical fitness, and social awareness, thereby setting the foundation for the creation of engineers who are not just technically sound, but also socially aware and responsible citizens. Such “life skills” are emphasized throughout the students’ stay at the Institute through various other activities.

International Internships

Nearly 40% of IITGN undergraduate students typically participate in study abroad or other international opportunities before graduation. These opportunities developed through partner collaborations are funded entirely by the Institute and its international partners, at virtually no cost to students.

Student Leadership Initiative

Leadership development and life skills are one of the core pillars of IIT Gandhinagar’s educational experience. Leadership is woven through a student’s journey at IIT Gandhinagar and embedded in many ways, both tangible and intangible. In partnership with Indira Foundation, IITGN offers a regular sequence of workshops, short courses, events, one-on-one tutoring sessions, etc. around leadership. They cover a wide range of competencies, such as oral and written communications; people skills (team, collaboration, and leadership); critical and visionary thinking; and physical and mental health, which are all crucial for personal satisfaction and professional success, regardless of career paths chosen.

Explorer Fellowship

The IITGN Explorer Fellowship is an annual summer program that enables students, organised in small teams, to undertake a six-week adventure across the country. The program empowers students to plan and travel with limited budget throughout the country to observe India intimately at the grassroots level and encounter diverse cultures and lifestyles. The fellowship is entirely funded by the Institute and requires no costs by the students.

Gram Fellowship

The IITGN Gram Fellowship aspires to sensitise the students towards the concern of rural living by exposing its students to rural India.This fellowship is for the students to experience the life of common people who may not have access to sufficient resources. It would also be an opportunity for the fellows to think beyond technological interventions to address the concerns of the community. The  fellowship is entirely funded by the Institute and requires no costs by the students.

Campus Jobs 

The “On-Campus Employment Opportunities (oCEO)” program aims to provide students with first-hand employment and job experience. This program is meant to help the students on ‘High- Quality Job experience’, ‘Inculcate Higher Responsibility’, ‘Develop Leadership and Life-skills’, ‘Opportunity to Earn Money' and ‘Meet Human Resource Requirements’ of the Institute. In addition, the students can contribute significantly to continuing education programs and various other initiatives of the Institute.

Academic Support

Numerous academic support initiatives are available to students:

●      Each student is assigned a faculty advisor who guides them through understanding the curricular requirements and remains assigned to them through their tenure at the Institute.

●      Our unique peer-assisted learning (PAL) programme is designed to help first-year students who face difficulties in adapting to new culture and medium of instruction in their coursework.

●      Academic discussion hours, facilitated by senior students, provide support on more technical matters to students who may be facing challenges in certain courses.

●      For speedy integration of new students into IITGN, 10-12 students are assigned a student guide who acts as a guide and mentor for the student during their first year.

●      A robust and proactive counselling service offers a mechanism to address broader issues related to student wellbeing.

IITGN believes that financial constraints should not be an obstacle in the academic pursuit of any student and offers a wide range of extremely liberal financial aid and scholarship programs to ensure that no student feels disadvantaged due to their financial situation. Beyond supporting students with financial need, a wide range of special projects, work opportunities, international and domestic  internships, and other academic expenses are also supported through such programs. Students can apply for tuition fee waiver programs, financial assistance programs, and apply to pay tuition and other fees in installments (based on financial need). For more information, please visit the scholarships page (https://www.iitgn.ac.in/students/scholarships).

A summary of the financial assistance schemes, provisions for tuition fee waiver scheme, educational bank loan facility, details of existing excellence and donor instituted scholarships, and other provisions such as On-Campus Employment Opportunities Program, etc. are as follows:

1. Merit scholarships worth Rs. 2 Lakh per year per student (for 4 years) for all students admitted to the BTech program at IITGN and holding a JEE Advanced rank of 1000 (or better) or having represented India in any recognized international Olympiad.
2. Merit scholarship worth Rs. 1 Lakh per year per student (for 4 years) for all female students admitted to the BTech program at IITGN who hold a top JEE Advanced rank.
3. There are a number of Donor Scholarships as listed below that support various activities including international and domestic internships, special projects, and financial need.

4. Excellence Scholarships – for demonstrating outstanding performance (irrespective of their parental income) – Worth Rs. 20,000/- each

5. IITGN also provides generous grants and interest-free short-term and long-term loans based on students’ need to support their academic requirements, excellence activities, purchase of laptop/PC and in some cases even personal expenses. Students can also apply to pay tuition and other fees in instalments.
6. Scholarships and financial support for international internships, financial rewards for undergraduate research publications are also made available.
7. The institute in association with Tata Motors Ltd. provides financial assistance to students from economically weaker backgrounds through the TML-FAP (Tata Motors Ltd. Financial Aid Program) which is open to all the undergraduate students of IIT Gandhinagar.
8. The oCEO (On-Campus Employment Opportunities) program aims to help students to get a first-hand professional work experience while getting paid for it. The selected students’ under oCEO can work for a maximum of 10 hours per week during the semester and 40 hours per week during vacations. The remuneration provided is tentatively in the range of Rs.150 - 200 per hour.

Note that all scholarships are subject to the student continuing to maintain a reasonable academic record and ethical conduct. More information available at: http://www.iitgn.ac.in/student-scholarships

IIT Gandhinagar students pursue diverse career paths, including corporate jobs in various sectors, government jobs, higher studies, entrepreneurship, and social and other pursuits. In the last three years, ~20% of graduating students opted to pursue higher studies from some of the best universities/institutions abroad and in India. The Institute has a vibrant incubation centre, where several companies jump started by our undergraduates are being incubated. 

The Career Development Services (CDS) at IITGN supports students in all these pursuits, including placement opportunities, international summer internships and industry visits. Over the last three years, more than 40% of the graduating students receive fully funded study abroad or other international opportunities.

Students also have the option for the deferred placement, designed to enable a student to explore alternative career paths (such as entrepreneurship) for a year or two and then seek to participate in placements at a later date if needed, thus providing them a safety net.

Backed by the training and support of the CDS, students at IITGN regularly interact with experts in industry and IIT alumni to stay abreast of the needs of the job market. Domestic and foreign companies spanning finance, consulting, research & development, education, PSUs, management, IT/ Software, in addition to core engineering and technology participate in placements.

More information available at:  https://cds.iitgn.ac.in/

Alumni and industry engagement at IITGN is exemplary. Despite a young alumni base, the rate of alumni giving back to the Institute is perhaps the highest among Indian institutes and among the highest in the world with 50% of the alumni contributing to the Institute in 2019-2020. Many alumni have started to set up scholarships for future students and many others are engaged in nurturing current students through interaction sessions. The fully functional research park on campus enables strong relationship with several industry partners. A number of industry-supported projects are carried out at IITGN thus providing opportunities for students to be engaged in industry-related projects.

The students and faculty of IITGN show an extraordinary level of enthusiasm and participation in institute affairs. Many festivals and events are celebrated on campus, including:

●      Amalthea, the two-day annual technical summit of IITGN that focuses on spreading technical knowledge and enthusiasm in students to develop technology for the greater good of humans. Amalthea is supported by sponsorships and exhibitions by major companies, such as ONGC, GPCL, Reliance, ITC, and Apple. Eminent speakers such as Shri Narendra Modi, Dr. Anil Kakodkar, Dr. R. Chidambaram, and Mr. Dilip Chhabaria, have spoken at the summit.

●      Blithchron, the two-day cultural festival of IITGN, acts as a catalyst for budding talents from various universities, colleges, and institutes from across the country. The fest showcases events like fashion shows, “The Butler Did It”, Antarangee, Panache, Jobless, the rock competition “String Theory”, a dance competition “Synchronize” and many more. The events have attracted upto 22,000 students from colleges in Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat and Gandhinagar. “Boond”, a blood donation drive, is one of the most actively participated events of Blithchron.

●      Hallabol is an all-night intra-institute sports Festival at IITGN, drawing participation from students, staff and faculty. The games played with modified rules are Futsal, Tug of War, Frisbee, Touch Rugby, Foot Volley, Gully Cricket, 7 Stones, 3 a side Baddy, Basky, Dodge ball and Kho-Kho.

●      Ignite, an Intra Institute fest, brings the entire IIT Gandhinagar family together to celebrate, experience, relive, share and admire the beauty of technology through fun, amusing activities and events.

●      Jashn, is a three-day fun-filled intra-institute cultural fest with innovative, traditional, and exciting events/games, including art exhibition, photography and movie-making competitions, quizzes and dance, drama and musical performances. It was started with a vision to promote inter-batch interaction and elevated participation of students in cultural events.

IIT Gandhinagar students are active in various sports supported by exceptional sports facilities on campus and number of coaches and gym instructors. Several student run clubs are active on campus and more information can be found at https://www.iitgn.ac.in/student/lifeoncampus/clubs/

The Institute is strongly committed to sensitizing students to the needs of society and to motivate them to make socially meaningful contributions from an early age. Nyasa is a student-run programme to address the health and education needs of construction workers and their families on campus.

IIT Gandhinagar is located on the banks of the river Sabarmati in Palaj, Gandhinagar. The campus has excellent connectivity to Ahmedabad international airport (around 30 minutes by road) and train stations of Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar. The road, water, and electricity infrastructure of the city and of the campus are world class. Gandhinagar-Ahmedabad twin cities are known both for a rich cultural past as well as state-of-the-art infrastructure, thriving industries, effective transport system, and many modern amenities. They are also the hub of prestigious academic and research institutes, such as the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), and the National Institute of Design (NID). Ahmedabad consistently ranks among the best and safest cities to live in India in several major national surveys. Gandhinagar is particularly known for its safety at night and safety for women.

A campus shuttle operating on all days at regular intervals facilitates travel between the campus and key locations in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar. The bus rapid transit system in Ahmedabad is convenient to access various points of the city from the end point of the campus shuttle. The construction of a metro subway rail link between Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar is presently underway.