IIT Guwahati Ph.D. Courses & Fees 2026: Fees, Eligibility, How to Apply

Yes, the PhD students of Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme of IIT Guwahati are offered financial assistance. The students of this scheme are eligible to get the following:

• Fellowship: Rs. 38,750/month in 1st and 2nd years. Rs. 43,750/month for 3rd, 4th and 5th years.
• Contingency Grant: Rs. 1,20,000/year.
• Support for attending international conference and to visit labs abroad.

The PhD students of IIT Guwahati who secured admissions under the Industry-Sponsored category will be charged INR 5 Lacs per semester as PhD fees.

This makes the total PhD fees for these students INR 40 Lacs at IIT Guwahati. However, this is the only fees mentioned for these students on the website.

Yes, the hostel services are offered to PhD students of IIT Guwahati. However, only the regular category PhD course students receive hostel service from IIT Guwahati.

Non regular category PhD students are not offered any hostel services and are required to find off site arrangements.

There are 11 research specialisations available for PhD courses at IIT Guwahati. These specialisations may or may not be available under all categories of PhD courses at IIT Guwahati. PhD specialisations at IIT Guwahati include the following:

• Computer Science and Engineering    
• Electronics and Electrical Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering    
• Civil Engineering    
• Design
• Biosciences and Bioengineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Mathematics        
• Humanities and Social Sciences

Some of the top USPs of IIT Guwahati are as follows:

• IITG has been awarded with the status of Indian Institute of Management Guwahati.
• It has been ranked 8 under the 'Engineering' category and 11 under the Overall category by the NIRF Ranking 2025.
• The highest package reached INR 1.25 crore per annum during IIT Guwahati placements.
• A total of 1,606 students registered out of which 1,001 were placed during IIT Guwahati placement season.

The IIT Guwahati CSE average package for BTech and MTech courses stood at INR 36.94 LPA and INR 21.71 LPA, respectively. In addition to this, 90.68% of BTech CSE and 78.57% of MTech CSE students were placed during the 2025 drive. Check the complete IIT Guwahati placement details 2025 for BTech and MTech in CSE:

Candidates under M.Tech Students (Studentship) category must have valid GATE score in admissible examination paper. They are entitled to receive Financial Assistantship/ Scholarship from IIT Guwahati at the rate of INR 12,400 per month (tenable for a maximum period of 24 months) as per the governing rules subject to satisfactory academic progress and satisfactory performance in assigned teaching assistant duty.

The course-wise average package for the academic year 2024-25 is out on the official website. The highest average package 2025 stood at INR 28.42 LPA and was made to BDes students. For a detailed analysis of IIT Guwahati average package trends refer to the table below:

The important dates of UCEED 2026 cover events like the commencement and deadline to fill out the UCEED application, admit card release and exam date, result date, and seat allotment schedule. This means the important dates will cover all the events starting from the release of admission notification to the completion of the admission process. The candidate can keep track of upcoming events by consulting the important dates.

The important dates for UCEED 2026 have been released by IIT Bombay. IIT Bombay has the authority to change a pre-announced date; so candidates need to stay updated by visiting this space.

Indian Institute of Guwahati offers multiple course. However, the BTech (all specialisation) course fee is INR 8 lakh. The total tuition fee for BTech, MTech and MSc course at IIT Guwahati is mentioned in the table below:

IIT Guwahati offers admission to all its courses on the basis of both, merit and entrance scores. IIT Guwahati accepts national-level entrance exams. The college accepts JEE Main, JEE Advanced, CAT, IIT JAM, UCEED, CEED, GATE, etc. scores for admission to its courses.

IIT Guwahati provides good placements across all courses. The course-wise placement rate recorded during the placement drive 2025 is mentioned below: 

As per unofficial sources, IIT Guwahati alumni are working in leading national and multinational companies such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Oracle, TCS, Infosys, HCL, Adobe, etc. They are majorly involved in the Engineering sector with a 35% share. The sector-wise distribution of alumni is presented in the below pie-chart:

NOTE: The sectors under the ‘Others’ category include Operations, Marketing, Sales, Media & Communication, Support, Research, Finance and Consulting.

Syllabus of UCEED is to help candidates identify topics and subjects from which questions can come in the UCEED Exam. Understand exam pattern and marking scheme and prepare accordingly. Candidates should check the syllabus before preparing UCEED. 

Candidates wishing to take admission in PhD at IIT Guwahati have to appear in a written test followed by personal interview.

Check below the test pattern for written test at IIT Guwahati for PhD admission: 
Mathematical Foundations:
Propositional and First order logic. Sets, relations, functions, partial orders. Graphs: connectivity, matching, coloring. Combinatorics: counting, recurrence relations, generating functions. Matrices, determinants, system of linear equations, eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Random variables. Uniform, normal, exponential, Poisson and binomial distributions. Mean, median, mode, and standard deviation. Conditional probability and Bayes theorem.

Programming, Data Structure and Algorithms:
Programming in C. Recursion.
Arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists, trees, binary search trees, binary heaps, graphs.
Algorithms: Searching, sorting, hashing. Asymptotic the worst-case time and space complexity. Algorithm design techniques: greedy, dynamic programming and divide-and-conquer. Graph traversals, minimum spanning trees, the shortest paths

Computer Systems:
Boolean algebra. Combinational and sequential circuits. Number representations, fixed and floating point computer arithmetic. Machine instructions and addressing modes. Instruction pipelining, pipeline hazards. Memory hierarchy: cache, main memory and secondary storage; I/O interface, interrupts and DMA.
Operating Systems: processes, threads, inter-process communication, concurrency and synchronization. Deadlocks, CPU scheduling. Memory management and virtual memory.
Computer Networks: OSI and TCP/IP reference model, basics of packet and circuit switching; medium access control, flow control and routing protocols, IP addressing, UDP, TCP, sockets.

Yes, candidates can withdraw their admission in MBA from IIT Guwahati. If candidates withdraw admission by 20 July 2026, a sum of INR 1,000 shall be deducted from the fee deposited. 

In case of other late requests, only the refundable portion of the fee deposited shall be returned. The applicable refund amount shall be processed from IIT Guwahati in October 2026

The admission cut-off for Round I of UCEED 2026 was released on April 21, 2026.

This will be followed by the 2nd allotment on May 19, 2026. UCEED 3rd round of allotment will be declared on June 10, 2026.

IIT JAM 2026 counselling is now over. The Round 1 seat allotment result was announced on May 25, 2026. The counselling registration began in March 27, 2026.

The UCEED 2026 application window is now closed. Further, the UCEED exam 2026 was held on Jan 18, 2026.