IIIT Lucknow MSc Courses & Fees 2025: Admission, Eligibility & Selection Criteria

Candidates who are planning to appear for IIT JAM exam for the academic session 2026-2027 can check out the important dates for the complete admissions process from here:

Yes, there is an entrance exam for MBA IIIT Lucknow. Central University Entrance Test (Postgraduate) or CUET PG is the entrance exam accepted by IIIT Lucknow for admission to its MBA course for the academic year 2024. Candidates must apply for an MBA via the CUET PG's official website. They must appear for the exam and the personal interview conducted by the department. However, before applying to be eligible for the MBA program is mandatory. Candidates must have a bachelor's degree with a minimum of 50% (45% relaxation for SC/ST/PWD candidates) in any discipline. 

The Counselling process of Regular Rounds consists of following stages excluding preregistration:
? Online Registration, Payment of Registration Fee, Choice Filling and Locking of Choices.
? Three Rounds of Counselling: Seat Allotment, Depositing Seat Acceptance Fee, Submitting Willingness, Uploading Documents, and Online Document Verification.
? Payment of Partial Admission Fee.
? Physical Reporting at the Finally Allotted Institute.

CCMN Application form for the counselling process will be out in the fourth week of May 2026, tentatively. Students who will appear for the IIT JAM 2026 examination and wishes to take admissions in the MSc/ MSc Tech degree porgrammes offered at NITs, IIEST Shibpur and some CFTI institutes need to fill out the CCMN 2026 online application cum counselling form.

Students are advised to read this brochure carefully and visit the CCMN website regularly for all the updates regarding the counselling process.

IIIT Lucknow fees for two years MSc course is around INR 2 lakh. Candidates have to report to the allotted institute and get the hard copies of the documents verified and pay the requisite admission fees. The admission fees is inclusive of mutliple other components such as Caution Money, Enrollment Fee, Identity Card Fee, Alumni fund and Institute Development and Maintenance Charges. *This information is sourced from the official website/ sanctioning body and is subject to change. 

IIIT Lucknow offers admission to three MSc courses based on CCMN scores followed by counselling. Round 5 of the CCMN Seat Allotment has been released as the closing rank. Tabulated below is the closing rank for IIIT Lucknow cutoff for MSc:

IIIT Lucknow offers an MSc course in Data Science that is offered as a regular course lasting for two years. The course offers students knowledge on analyzing and using large ddataand use data tolls. To secure admission in the MSc data Science candidates must have a Bachelor's degree (BA /BSc /BStat/BMath/BTech/BE or equivalent) with a background in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, o r Physics. Further, candidates must participate in the national-level entrance exam IIT JAM 2025 and secure a valid score. Candidates with a valid JAm score become eligible to apply via the CCMN counseling portal. The MSc seats will be allotted to students via the CCMN counselling. Candidates just have to accep the seats and pay the IIIT Lucknow MSc course fees to finalise the admission.

CCMN refers to Centralized Counselling for MSc/MSc (Tech). This is a platform for the admission to NITs, CFTI, IIEST Shibpur, and SLIET Longowal.

The CCMN counselling is done on the basis of scores of the applicants in IIT JAM exam. There are multiple rounds of seat allotments in these instititues are done through CCMN.  

Yes, IIIT Lucknow does have an MSc course offered as a full-time regular course lasting for two academic years. The MS programme is offered across three major specializations namely including Data Science, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, and, Economics and Management.  The cousre curriculum is offered across four semesters covering all the important related to the specializations. Admisssonto teh IIIT Lucknow MSc course is subject to a valid score on the IIT Jam exam 2025. Further, candidates must apply via the common counselling portal, i.e, CCMN. 

To get admission to MSc at IIIT Lucknow the reuired steps are:

• You must have a Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline with a minimum of 60% marks or a 6.5 CGPA on a 10-point scale for General/OBC candidates, and 55% marks or a 6.0 CGPA for SC/ST/PwD candidates. 
• JAM scorecard is needed to get admission 
• you need to Pay the requisite application fee as specified in the admission notification
• remember one thing, candidates are shortlisted on the basis of JAM score
• Upon selection, you will need to provide original documents for verification, including academic transcripts, JAM scorecard, identification proof, and other relevant certificates.