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

The overall placement rate has been fluctuating over the past three years. For better clarity, the table below presents the IIT Guwahati placement trends:

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:

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 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:

IIT Guwahati has a decent placement record of placements for courses like BTech, MTech, MBA, BDes, etc. Check out the key highlights of IIT Guwahati placements for the Class of 2024 and 2025 in the table below:

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

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:

SDE emerged as the top recruiting sector with 45.3% of students placed in it. The second in the sequence was the Core sector. The table below represents the sector-wise distribution of IIT Guwahati placements 2025:

Yes, IIT Guwahati released GATE 2026 qualifying cutoff marks for all subjects on March 28. Candidates can check passing mark of respective papers now.

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 cutoff for round 1 was released on May 25, 2026. While the round 2 cutoff rank was released on June 8, 2026. The link to check the IIT JAM admission cutoff is mentioned online.

The important dates of UCEED 2027 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 2027 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.

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

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.

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.