2023 IIT Guwahati PhD Admission Notification

 

1.      Important Dates

 

Event	Date
Opening of Application Portal for Submission of Applications	March 24, 2023
Closing of Application Portal	05:00 PM on April 20, 2023
Selections will be conducted during	15 May to 15 June, 2023
Registration of New PhD, Dual Degree, MA, MSc, MBA, MTech, MDes and MS(R) students	July 24, 2023 (Tentative)
Orientation for New Students	July 25, 2023 (Tentative)
Classes will be starting from July 26, 2023 (Tentative). For further details, please refer to Academic Calendar
For detailed schedule of selections, follow the regular updates on this website and application portal

 

 

2.      Information of Programmes/Disciplines/Eligibility

 

Programmes	Disciplines/Eligibility	URL
·  PhD ·  Dual MTech+PhD ·  Dual MS+PhD	Disciplines and Various Schemes	https://iitg.ac.in/acad/admission/doctoral/disciplines.php
	Eligibility	https://iitg.ac.in/acad/admission/doctoral/eligibility.php
·  MS(R) ·  MTech ·  MDes ·  MA	Disciplines	https://iitg.ac.in/acad/admission/master/disciplines.php
	Eligibility	https://iitg.ac.in/acad/admission/master/eligibility.php

 

 

3.      Important Information

 

Information	URL
Studentship Categories	https://iitg.ac.in/acad/admission/doctoral/studentship.php
Reservation of Seats	https://iitg.ac.in/acad/admission/imp_info/reservation.php
Important Information on ·         Tie Breaking Rules ·         COAP ·         Cautionary Information	https://iitg.ac.in/acad/admission/imp_info/imp_info.php
Fee Structure	https://iitg.ac.in/acad/admission/imp_info/fee.php

4.      Summary of Advertised Programmes vs Disciplines

 

Departments/Schools/Centres	PhD					Dual Degree	MS(R)	MTech	MDes	MA
	Regular Seats	CSIR/UGC Special Scheme	Inter- disciplinary	JDP with IIT(BHU)	Project Mode
Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering	√	√	√					·  BioTech ·  BioEngg
Department of Civil Engineering	√		√	√				√
Department of Computer Science and Engineering	√		√		√	√		√
Department of Chemical Engineering	√		√		√			√
Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering	√		√	√	√	√		√
Department of Mechanical Engineering	√		√	√				√
Department of Design	√				√				·  Design ·  EDP
Department of Physics	√	√
Department of Chemistry	√		√	√
Department of Mathematics	√
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences	√									·  LA ·  DS
School of Agro and Rural Technology	√							√
Jyoti and Bhupat Mehta School of Health Sciences and Technology	√			√				√
School of Business	√
Mehta Family School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence	√
School of Energy Science and Engineering	√			√			√
Center for Nanotechnology	√
Center for the Environment	√
Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems	√
Center for Disaster Management and Research	√						√
Centre for Sustainable Polymers	√						√
Center for Linguistic Science and Technology	√
Center for Intelligent Cyber Physical Systems	√							√
Center for Sustainable Water Research	√
Interdisciplinary							E- Mobility	·  Data Science; ·  Food Science & Technology

5.      Application Process

 

1. Applications for Doctoral/MTech/MDes/MS(R)/MA programmes should be submitted only online through the Application Portal: https://www.iitg.ac.in/admission

2. Applications will not be accepted in any other mode.

3. Before submission of applications, please go through the information provided on this admission website carefully.

4. Candidates need to register only once on the Application Portal. Under the same login, candidates can submit applications to multiple programmes and disciplines. But, application fee should be paid separately for each application.

5.       Submission of online application is a three step process. Unless all the three steps are completed, the application will not be treated as complete. Incomplete applications will not be considered for processing. ·        Step-1: Personal information including the educational qualifications. ·        Step-2: Selection of programme. ·        Step-3: Online payment of application fee.

6. For submission of applications to different programmes and disciplines, the candidates have to repeat step-2 and step-3.

7.       Application & Processing Fee: In step-3 of the online application process, each candidate needs to make payment of application (processing) fee online as per the following: ·        All Female Candidates : Rs.150/- ·        All Transgender Candidates : Rs.150/- ·        All SC/ ST/ PwD Candidates : Rs.150/- ·        All Other Candidates : Rs.300/-

8. Applications without successful (online) payment of application fee shall be rejected.

 

6.      Selection Process

1. Applications of the candidates which are complete in all respects are considered valid.

2. For each programme, the respective department/school/centre will process the valid applications discipline wise and/or specialization wise.

3. MEC: The applicants who do not satisfy the minimum eligibility criteria and norms will not be considered for shortlisting/selection process.

4. Shortlisting: The Institute reserves the right to consider a limited number of eligible candidates for selection process by setting additional shortlisting criteria based on the performance in GATE/NET/CEED, grades/marks in the qualifying degree examination and/or other educational qualifications starting from Class 10.

5. The shortlisted candidates shall be considered for the selection process.

6. Selections for MA/MDes/MS(R)/PhD/Dual Master’s + PhD programmes shall be based on the performance of candidates in the previous educational qualifications and in the written test and/or interview conducted by the respective department/school/centre.

7.       i) COAP: Regular category seats for GATE qualified candidates in the following disciplines of MTech programme shall be offered through COAP (https://coap.iitkgp.ac.in/): a)      Biotechnology b)      Bioengineering c)      Civil Engineering d)      Computer Science and Engineering e)      Chemical Engineering f)        Electronics and Electrical Engineering g)      Mechanical Engineering h)      Data Science i)        Robotics and Artificial Intelligence j)        Biomedical Science and Engineering Such applicants have to follow the COAP schedule for accepting the offered seats. Selection of such applicants will be, typically, based on only GATE score. However, for certain disciplines/specializations, the department/school/centre, may also decide to conduct written test and/or interview (which will carry a maximum of 30% weightage).

ii) Selections for other categories (regular with IIT Degree, and non-regular) for the MTech programmes listed above (in point (i)), and for all categories for all other MTech programmes shall be based on the performance of candidates in the previous educational qualifications and in the written test and/or interview conducted by the respective department/school/centre.

8.       Mode of Selection: The selection for a particular programme and discipline will be conducted in one of the following modes, as decided by the respective department/school/centre: ·        Offline: All stages of the selection process shall be completely offline for which the candidates have to come to the campus and participate in the selection process. ·        Online: All stages of the selection process shall be completely online through video conferencing through MS Teams, G-Meet, etc., as per the convenience. For no stage of the selection the candidates need to come to the campus. ·        Hybrid: Some stages of the selection process shall be Online and some stages of the selection process shall be Offline. At every stage, selection process shall be either Online or Offline for ALL the candidates shortlisted for that stage. That is, in a particular stage, it is not permitted to conduct the selection Online for one candidate and Offline for another candidate. ·        An example for hybrid mode: In stage-1, all shortlisted candidates shall face screening interviews online. Then, in stage-2, all those candidates who are further shortlisted in stage-1 shall be called for final interviews which will be held offline on the campus. The mode of selection might vary from one department to the other department/school/centre. Also, it may vary from one programme to the other programme within the department/school/centre. The mode of selection for a particular programme and discipline will be announced along with the schedule of selections.

9. For PhD programme, the shortlisting and the selection may be done specialization wise by the respective department/school/centre.

10. Applicants have to visit this website and websites of respective department/school/centres regularly for information regarding shortlisting and selection of candidates. No personalized information can be expected in this regard. IIT Guwahati will not be responsible for delayed response from the applicants.

11. The results of shortlisting and selection shall be announced on the Application Portal. The applicants may login to the portal and check the results.

12. For any queries on the shortlisting/selections, the applicants can contact the DPPC/SPPC/CPPC Secretary or the Head of the Department/School/Centre. Click here for Contact Details.

 

7.      Results and Acceptance of Seats

1. The candidates can check the updates on shortlisting/selections on the Application Portal. The applicants may login to the portal and check the updates from time to time.

2. The candidates who have participated in the selection process can check the status of the results on their login to the application portal. The result information includes whether the candidate is Qualified or Not. If qualified, whether a seat is offered or in wait-list. If wait-listed, the current wait-list number for OPEN seat as well as reserved category seat, if any.

3. The candidates who were offered seats have to accept the seats by making the payment of requisite fee before the last date mentioned there. Otherwise, the seats will be offered to those next in the waiting list.

4. The selection is provisional, subject to production of all the relevant documents at the time of admission.

5. The selection may be cancelled at any point if the candidature is found to be against the ordinances, rules and regulations of the Institute.

6. Selected candidates whose qualifying degree results are awaited shall have to produce their original Pass Certificates and Mark Sheets as per the timelines decided by the Academic Affairs Section.

7. After accepting the offered seat by paying the requisite fee, if a candidate wants to withdraw, he/she can express the same on the application portal latest by 15 July 2023.

8. If the withdrawal request is received by 15 July 2023, a sum of Rs. 1,000/- only shall be deducted from the fee deposited. In case of late requests, only refundable portion of the fee deposited shall be returned. Applicable refund amount shall be sent from IIT Guwahati in October 2023.

9. For dates of registration and start of classes, please see the important dates column.

10. For notification regarding candidates selected for admission, admission offer letter, etc., IIT Guwahati will NOT send any hard copy letter to the candidates by post.