IIT Patna Admissions

The campus is spread over 501 acres and is located at Bihta. The permanent campus of Bhita was inaugurated by Prime MInister Narendra Modi in 2015. IIT Patna has a faculty strength of 100 people. IIT Patna has 225 seats for undergraduate program. It is the first IIT to start a M.Tech program in Nanotechnology. IIT Patna has an efficient training and placement cell which organizes summer internships and final year placements. The avg. job offer is around 11.7 Lakh pa. REad the full article to know more about IIT Patna.

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IIT Patna offers various specializations in these 5 departments. Check the list of departments IIT Patna offers admission in.

Engineering and Technology
Basic Sciences
Humanities and Social sciences
Computer centre
Centre for endangered language study

Entrance exams

IIT Bhubaneswar, along with other IITs and IISc, conducts entrance examination for admission and pre-qualification of students for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

JEE (Advanced Joint Entrance Examination) for the B.Tech Admission
GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) for M.Tech and PhD Admission
CEED (Common Entrance Exam for Design) for M. Des and PhD Admission
JAM (Joint Admission Test) for M.Sc. Admission

List of Courses

Check below the list of courses that IIT Patna offers for its undergraduate, postgraduate and Ph.D. admissions.

B.Tech in

Computer Science and Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Civil and Infrastructure Engineering
Chemical Science and Technology

M.Sc. in

Mathematics
Chemistry
Physics

M.Tech in

Mechatronics
Mathematics & Computing
Nano Science & Technology
Computer Science & Engineering
Communication System Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Civil & Infrastructure Engineering
Materials Science & Engineering
VLSI & Embedded Systems

Mode of Admission and Selection

Admissions to undergraduate programs are done through All India Ranks of Joint Entrance Entrance examination and admissions in postgraduate courses are done through scores of GATE and JAM.

Fee structure and Scholarship

Fee structure for students who will be admitted in July 2019

B.Tech (First semester)

For General/OBC/EWS Category = 1,24,250
For SC/ST Category = 24,250

M.Tech. (for first semester)

For General/OBC/EWS Category = 34,750
For SC/ST Category = 24,750

M.Sc. (for first semester)

For General/OBC/EWS Category = 29,250
For SC/ST Category = 24,250

Scholarship

Merit cum means scholarship is provided by the institute on the merit basis for undergraduate admission.

Joint Entrance Examination (JEE)

It is a 3 hour computer based examination conducted for 2 papers. Paper 1 is conducted for B.Tech and B.E courses and Paper 2 is conducted for B.Arch and B.Planning courses. Candidates need to qualify JEE Main to be eligible for JEE Advanced exam. The exam is conducted by National Testing Agency.

Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE)

GATE is conducted for 25 papers. It is jointly conducted by IISc Bangalore and 7 IITs on behalf of National Coordination Board (NCB) – GATE, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India and Department of Higher Education. The GATE scores are valid for 3 years from the date of announcement of results.

Placements

IIT Patna has a separate training and placement cell. The cell contacts prospective recruiters and ask their requirements and accordingly prepare their students with the right skill set and knowledge. Training and placement cell works closely with student placement committee which consists of students from each course and department as a representative of their class. Some of the recruiters include DE Shaw Arcesium, Microsoft, CodeNation, LinkedIn, Savan, ISRO, IOCL, LTI, TCS R&D, MakeMyTrip.

Placement Statistics 2018-19

About IIT Patna

It is one of the new IITs established in 2008. The permanent campus is located at Bhita which is around 40km from patna. IIT Patna has a total of 10 departments. The institute has modern equipment and facilities to train its students in different specializations. As of April 2016 IIT Patna has 670 students in B.Tech program, 161 M.Tech students and 259 Ph.D students. Best sports facilities are provided for students and various clubs are also formed by students for managing the level of sports activities on campus.