Announcement

The online application portal will be available from October 21, 2024 (Monday), 02:00 PM to November 07, 2024 (Thursday), 02:00 PM. The deadline is extended up to November 08 , 2024 (Friday), 01:00 PM. Please note that this is a hard extended deadline. No further extension would be made.

Programmes Offered

Applications are invited for admission to January 2025 semester in the following programmes:

M Tech: * Mechanical Engineering (only in Manufacturing Science)

MS (BY RESEARCH): Civil Engineering (only in Infrastructure Engineering and Management & Environmental Engineering) * Computer Science & Engineering * Electrical Engineering * Mechanical Engineering (only in Manufacturing Science)

MS (BY RESEARCH) in Cybersecurity: Only for sponsored/part time/ External candidate (without financial assistantship)

PhD: * Aerospace Engineering * Biological Sciences & Bio engineering * Chemical Engineering * Civil Engineering * Computer Science & Engineering * Electrical Engineering * Materials Science & Engineering * Interdisciplinary Programme on Materials Science * Mechanical Engineering * *Chemistry * Mathematics * Statistics

PhD Design

General Information

Detailed information on PG programmes offered at IIT Kanpur is available at:

PG Manual

Hostel Accommodation: New

In-campus accommodation may not be available for the upcoming newly admitted PG students at the time of admission/offer acceptance. Those newly admitted PG students may be offered admissions without in-campus accommodation facilities. The HRA, as per rules, may be provided to all such students. The students will be given an option for in-campus accommodation as and when available following some guidelines, which will be available in due course of time.

Indian Candidates:
  1. Reservations [EWS/SC/ST/OBC(NCL)/DAP] shall apply as per Government of India (GoI) norms.
  2. For Application Form, Reference Letter Form, Information Brochure, Eligibility Criteria and other relevant details, please visit:

    Important Links Apply Online

  3. Click the link for the concerned department to get detailed information about the department.
  4. Students who are in the final year of their programme (likely to finish the programme by January 02, 2025) may also apply and secure provisional admission for the session commencing in January 2025 (2024-25-II Semester).
  5. Financial support (Institute Assistantship/Scholarship) will be provided to non-sponsored PhD, MTech and MS (By Research) students.
  6. Those employed in industry or a college/university/institute may apply for admission as sponsored, external or part-time candidates. The last date of accepting applications under these categories is November 20, 2024. Further information on these categories of admissions is available at: Important Links
Withdrawn from the Programme:
  1. The last date of withdrawal from the programme (with Rs 1000/- deduction) is December 12, 2024. If withdrawal is received after aforesaid date the deduction will be as per institute norms.
  2. Refund processing will be taken up after January 15, 2025. Refund may take up to 21 working days.
  3. Withdrawal applications should be submitted through the below mentioned link along with below mentioned documents:

    https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeexAZX7CKMoNH3zGsNnTq_FlGaCgC1s7E0pB3n804MPJK6MA/viewform?usp=sf_link

    1. Signed application for withdrawal consisting of all details like Application number, Department, Program, Amount paid.
    2. Fee payment receipt
    3. Bank details (Name, Brach, IFSC code, A/C no, address)
    4. Photo copy of front page of passbook
Foreign Nationals:

For assistance related to foreign national applications (Study in India / ICCR / ASEAN etc) kindly get in touch with Office of International relations. (https://www.iitk.ac.in/oir/contact). The last date of accepting offline applications under these categories is November 20, 2024.

Details on the admission for candidates in Foreign Nationals category can be found at: Click Here

How To Apply

  • The online application portal will be available from October 21, 2024 (Monday), 02:00 PM to November 07, 2024 (Thursday), 02:00 PM, Go to "Important Links". The deadline is extended up to November 08 , 2024 (Friday), 01:00 PM. Please note that this is a hard extended deadline. No further extension would be made.
  • Indian as well as Foreign Nationals can apply only through online mode of application. The deadline for application in online mode is November 07, 2024 (Thursday), 02:00 PM.
  • PhD applicants must arrange for two letters of reference as well. For this purpose, the names of the referees along with their e-mail addresses are to be provided by the candidate at the online applications portal. The referees will be contacted electronically through an auto generated mail with a request to submit their recommendations online.
  • MTech / PhD / MS (By Research) Programme: Applicants are requested to register and submit their applications through link given on "apply online" page.
  • The application fee is Rs. 500 for General, EWS, OBC and OBC-NCL candidates and Rs. 250 for SC/ST and all DAP candidates. The application fee is waived for candidates in the 'Foreign National' category.
  • Application Fees is Non-Refundable
  • A separate application form is to be filled for each programme or department.