IIT Kanpur

Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh

NIRF Rank: #5 Government Est. 1959

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About IIT Kanpur

The IIT Kanpur campus is one of India's biggest campuses. The campus's entire size is 1055 acres. The BTech programme is the flagship course. Additionally, the institute launched SURGE IIT Kanpur, a novel educational programme. The IIT Kanpur courses are offered in BTech, B.Sc, MTech, M.Des, M.Sc, MBA, and, PhD. The BTech course of the institute is the flagship course and its fee is Rs 8.38 lakh. Admission to the BTech course is based on the JEE Advanced exam followed by the JoSAA Counselling. Candidates with a rank of 200-250 are shortlisted for the course. Further, the IIT Kanpur fee structure ranges from Rs 44,150 to Rs 8.38 lakh. At present, the institute has 4,500 students in the UG courses and 2,000 students in the PG courses. For the PhD courses, 2,100 students are enrolled in the institute. Moreover, the IIT Kanpur faculty includes 47 visiting faculty members and 555 permanent faculty members. The institute published 2,021 research publications in 2022 and has filed 884 patents to date.The IIT Kanpur placements are also top-notch with more than 200 reputed companies participating in the placement drive. Some of IIT Kanpur's top recruiters are Ola, Cognizant, KPMG, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Godrej, Amazon, Accenture, Google, Microsoft, TCS, Reliance Jio, Intel, Uber, Axtria, etc. IIT Kanpur has a student-to-faculty ratio of 15:9, with a faculty strength of 413 highly experienced members and a student population of 6478 students. The institute was established in 1959 as part of the Kanpur Indo-American Program as one of the earliest Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT). It was formed with the aid of a group of nine research universities in the United States.

Summary

IIT Kanpur admission is ongoing. M.Tech and MS are based on GATE, and GATE exams will be held on Feb 1, 2, 15, and 16, 2025, and M.Sc and MSc+PhD are based on IIT JAM, for which the result will be released on March 19, 2025. There are a total of 12 courses in IIT Kanpur and the fee structure ranges between Rs 6,000 - Rs 8,00,000.

Courses and Fees

IIT Kanpur fees range from Rs 6000 to Rs 800000 per year, depending on the degree level, duration and specialization of the course. The college offers 94 courses at UG, PG and Ph.D programmes. Furthermore, IIT Kanpur offers 13 courses in B.Tech, 6 courses in B.Tech+M.Tech at the UG level. At the PG level, the students can choose a wide range of specializations - 22 courses in M.Tech, 10 course in MS. Admission to IIT Kanpur courses are open for the academic year 2024-25. For admission the college conducts COAP. In addition to this, scores of IIT JAM, JEE Main, GATE, JEST, UGC NET, JEE Advanced, CEED, CSIR NET are accepted by IIT Kanpur.

Course	Fees	Entrance Exams	Specialization
MBA	₹0	null	General Management
MSc	₹0	IIT JAM	Physics
M.Des	₹0	null	General
B.Tech+MBA	₹0	null	General
B.Tech+M.Tech	₹0	null	Electrical Engineering
MSc+PhD	₹0	IIT JAM	General
M.Tech	₹10,000	GATE, UGC NET, COAP	Aerospace Engineering
PhD	₹16,183	GATE, CEED, UGC NET, JEST	General
MS	₹20,000	GATE, CSIR NET	Computer Science
BS	₹48,550	GATE, JEE Main, JEE Advanced	General
B.Tech	₹200,000	JEE Main, JEE Advanced	Computer Science
BSc	₹200,000	JEE Main, JEE Advanced	Data Science

Rankings

Year	Category	Rank
2021	Engineering	4
2022	Engineering	4
2023	Engineering	4
2024	Engineering	4
2021	Management	16
2022	Management	20
2023	Management	23
2024	Management	29
2022	Overall	5
2023	Overall	5
2024	Overall	5
2021	Research	6
2022	Research	6
2023	Research	6