Important Guidelines

1. The link to the online application form is available in the Apply Online tab. After filling the form, please take a print and keep it for your record.
2. A candidate can apply to a maximum of three departments.
3. A Statement of Purpose (SoP) must be uploaded along with the online application.
4. At the time of physical reporting to the Institute (after admission is finalized), candidates must submit self-attested copies of the relevant certificates.
5. Please be ready with the following documents before upload:
   • Passport size Photo (jpg, jpeg, png), size <=500 KB
   • Signature (format jpg, jpeg, png) size <= 200 KB
   • School leaving certificate (pdf) size <=1024 KB
   • UG Degree Certificate (pdf) size <=1024 KB
   • Consolidated UG transcript (pdf) size <=1024 KB
   • PG Degree Certificate (if applicable) (pdf) size <=1024 KB
   • Consolidated PG transcript (pdf) size <=1024 KB
   • SoP/Research Proposal, (pdf) size <=1024 KB
   • First page of publication, (if applicable) (pdf, jpg, jpeg) each size <= 1024 KB
6. In case of any queries, please write to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Research Areas (For MS)

Applicants are required to select the research areas in the online admission portal as per the availability in the respective category/scheme. The available research areas for January 2023 admission cycle are tabulated below. For interdisciplinary research, applicants are encouraged to browse research areas offered by various departments. Interested candidates with degree in electrical / electronics and communications / computer science and engineering are encouraged to apply for Robotics and Mechatronics listed under Mechanical Engineering.

Department	Division	Research Areas
Chemical Engineering	Chemical Engineering	General Chemical Engineering, Soft Matter and Food Colloids, Machine Learning in Chemical Engineering, Process Control and Optimization, Chemical Process Modeling and Optimization, Biomass to Chemicals, Molecular Simulations, Interface Modeling, Computational Material Science, Materials for Energy, Nanomaterials, Granular Flow
Civil and Environmental Engineering	Structural Engineering	Steel structures
		Reinforced Concrete Structures
		Computational Mechanics
		Composite materials/ structures
		Durability of concrete structures
		Special concretes (3D printable concrete, high performance concrete etc.)
		Non-destructive testing of concrete structures
		Waste derived cementitious materials
	Water Resources Engineering	Groundwater Hydrology
		Water Resources Planning and Management
		Forest Hydrology
	Transportation Engineering	Traffic Engineering
		Pavement Engineering
	Environmental Engineering	Advanced Water and Wastewater Treatment
		Air Quality Management
		Life Cycle Analysis
	Geotechnical Engineering	Earthquake Geotechnics
		Pavement Geotechnics
		Ground Improvement
		Geo-environmental Engineering
	Geoinformatics/Geomatics	Remote Sensing
		GIS
Computer Science and Engineering	Computer Science and Engineering	Computer Architecture, AI Accelerator, Reinforcement Learning, AI for Software Engineering, Software Engineering for AI, Computing for Education, Human-Computer Interaction, Parallel Computing, Graph Analytics, Algorithms and Data Structures, Algorithms and Computational Complexity, High Performance Computing, Data Science Algorithms and Applications*, Computer Networks*, Internet of Things*, Machine Learning for IoTs*
Electrical Engineering	Power and Control	Power Electronics, Control and Robotics, Smart Grids
	Electronics	VLSI Design
	Wireless Communication and Networks	Wireless Communication and Networks
	Electronic Devices & Systems	Semiconductor Devices
	RF and Microwaves	RF & Microwave Components and Systems, Antennas
	Signal Processing & Computer Vision	Medical Imaging & Computer Vision
Mechanical Engineering
	Fluids and Thermal	Fluids and Thermal
	Solid Mechanics	Solid Mechanics
	Robotics and Mechatronics	Robotics and Mechatronics
	Manufacturing	Metal Additive Manufacturing, Titanium Alloys/Metal Forming/Solidification

Research Areas (For Ph.D.)

Applicants are required to select the research areas in the online admission portal as per the availability in the respective category/scheme. The available research areas for July 2023 admission cycle are tabulated below. For interdisciplinary research, applicants are encouraged to browse research areas offered by various departments. Interested candidates with degree in electrical / electronics and communications / computer science and engineering are encouraged to apply for Robotics and Mechatronics listed under Mechanical Engineering.

Department	Division	Research Areas
Chemical Engineering	Chemical Engineering	General Chemical Engineering, Soft Matter and Food Colloids, Machine Learning in Chemical Engineering, Process Control and Optimization, Chemical Process Modeling and Optimization, Biomass to Chemicals, Molecular Simulations, Interface Modeling, Computational Material Science, Materials for Energy, Nanomaterials, Granular Flow
Chemistry	Organic Chemistry	Transition Metal Catalysis, Asymmetric Catalysis, Organometallic Catalysis, Photochemistry, Organic Synthesis: C-H Activation, Photoredox Catalysis, Organic synthesis, Carbohydrate chemistry and chemical biology, Total synthesis of natural products.
	Inorganic Chemistry	Supramolecular Chemistry, Material Science, Mechanically Inter-locked molecules, Metal-oxide bond activation, Medicinal Chemistry, Bioinorganic Chemistry, Coordination & Environmental Chemistry.
	Theoretical Chemistry	Theoretical Spectroscopy, Desalination of Sea-Water, Chemical Dynamics in Condensed Phases, Quantum Chemistry, Modelling Light-Matter Interaction: Excited-State Dynamics in Condensed Phase, "Spectroscopic modelling Computational biophysics, Stochastic thermodynamics, Noise induced transport phenomena
Civil and Environmental Engineering	Structural Engineering	Steel structures
		Reinforced Concrete Structures
		Computational Mechanics
		Composite materials/ structures
		Durability of concrete structures
		Special concretes (3D printable concrete, high performance concrete etc.)
		Non-destructive testing of concrete structures
		Waste derived cementitious materials
	Water Resources Engineering	Groundwater Hydrology
		Water Resources Planning and Management
		Forest Hydrology
	Transportation Engineering	Traffic Engineering
		Pavement Engineering
	Environmental Engineering	Advanced Water and Wastewater Treatment
		Air Quality Management
		Life Cycle Analysis
	Geotechnical Engineering	Earthquake Geotechnics
		Pavement Geotechnics
		Ground Improvement
		Geo-environmental Engineering
	Geoinformatics/Geomatics	Remote Sensing
		GIS
Computer Science and Engineering	Computer Science and Engineering	Computer Architecture, AI Accelerator, Reinforcement Learning, AI for Software Engineering, Software Engineering for AI, Computing for Education, Human-Computer Interaction, Parallel Computing, Graph Analytics, Algorithms and Data Structures, Algorithms and Computational Complexity, High Performance Computing.
Electrical Engineering	Power and Control	Power Electronics, Control and Robotics
	Electronics	VLSI Design
	Wireless Communication and Networks	Wireless Communication and Networks
	Electronic Devices & Systems	Semiconductor Devices
	RF and Microwaves	RF & Microwave Components and Systems, Antennas
	Signal Processing & Computer Vision	Medical Imaging & Computer Vision
Humanities and Social Sciences	Finance	Mathematical Finance, Financial Engineering
	Economics	Environmental and Resource Economics, Climate Change Economics, Energy Economics, Development Economics, Political Economy of Development
	English	Indian Literature and Aesthetics, Comparative Literary Studies, and Indian Folk Rituals, South Asian Narratives, Gender Studies, and Post-Millennial Cinematic Representations
	Public policy	Environmental Governance, Environmental Studies, Environmental Social Sciences, Environmental Politics, Human environmental interactions
Mathematics and Statistics	Mathematics and Statistics	Partial Differential Equations, Inverse Problems, Representation Theory, Biostatistics, Geospatial Statistics, Time Series Analysis, Multivariate Statistical Analysis, Machine Learning, Reliability and Survival Analysis
Mechanical Engineering
	Fluids and Thermal	Fluids and Thermal
	Solid Mechanics	Solid Mechanics
	Robotics and Mechatronics	Robotics and Mechatronics
	Manufacturing	Metal Additive Manufacturing, Titanium Alloys/Metal Forming/Solidification
Physics	Theoretical Physics	Astro particle physics, Cosmology, High energy phenomenology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Computational soft matter physics, Ion trapping, Quantum information and computation, Quantum many body physics, Relativistic Many body physics, Non-equilibrium systems, Plasma physics, Ultrafast physics

Eligiblity

English Proficiency Certificate is required for both MS & Ph.D. applications– If the medium of Instruction was not in English, the candidate should satisfy any one of the following:

• IELTS with a minimum score of 6.5 (overall)
• TOEFL (internet-based): 80 (overall)

MS (Research) applicants

• Candidates with a Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Technology or a Master’s Degree (M.Sc / MCA etc.) in the relevant discipline.

For Ph.D. applicants

Ph.D. in Engineering

• A Master’s degree in Engineering/Technology or a Master’s degree by Research in Engineering/Technology with a good academic record or a five-year integrated Masters/ Dual Degree in Engineering/Technology.

or

• A Master’s degree in Sciences with a good academic record and of exceptional merit in the relevant Engineering discipline.

or

• Candidates with a five-year integrated BS+MS degree from any Centrally Funded Technical Institute.

Ph.D. in Sciences

• Master’s degree in Sciences with a good academic record.

or

• Master’s degree holders in Engineering/Technology and Master of Science (Research) or a five-year integrated Masters/ Dual Degree in Engineering/Technology.

or

• Candidates with a five-year integrated BS+MS degree from any Centrally Funded Technical Institute.

Ph.D. in Humanities and Social Sciences

• Master's degree in an eligible discipline with a good academic record.

Scholarships

For Regular MS & PhD Applicants

• Study in India - (SII) - https://www.studyinindia.gov.in
• Indian Council for Cultural Relations - (ICCR) - http://a2ascholarships.iccr.gov.in
• ASEAN https://asean-iit.in
• For students from Nepal: Dr. Homi Jahangir Bhaba Scholarship for ME/M.Tech students (HJBSS) https://www.cgibirgunj.gov.in/page/advertisement-of-dr-homi-jahangir-bhabha-scholarship-scheme-2023-2024/

Other Useful links

• ASEAN DIA Login Portal - https://ecampus.iitd.ac.in/ASEAN/login
• Visa application portal - https://indianvisaonline.gov.in/
• ASEM-DUO Fellowship Programme - http://www.asemduo.org

Fees and Deposits

The applicable tuition and other fee / deposits for Ph.D. scholars is available at the following link.