IIT Guwahati UG, PG, Certificate Courses 2025

IIT Guwahati is the sixth IIT has been ranked 7 under the Engineering category. The institute offers excellent on-campus accommodation for its candidates. IIT Guwahati has modern infrastructure with well-equipped classrooms, libraries, laboratories, and other facilities to support learning and research activities. As per students reviews on Shiksha, the faculty members are well-educated and supportive.The institute offers a wide range of undergraduate, postgraduate, certificate and doctoral programmes across various streams. IIT Guwahati mechanical department has been given a lot of awards for having a high passing percentage of students. Its placement statistics are also good enough. The average package is around 10 to 15 LPA with top recruiters being TATA, Mahindra, Bajaj, and others.

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

The table below showcases the course-wise IIT Guwahati lowest package trends for the past three years:

The key highlights of IIT Guwahati placements 2024 and 2025 for M.Tech are presented below:

IIT Guwahati JEE Advanced cutoff 2025 ranged from 792 to 10727 for various BTech specialisations. This is the cutoff range during the last round for the students belonging to the General AI quota. Please be aware that the cutoff will be different for each category and round. As per the JEE Advanced cutoff 2025, BTech in Computer Science and Engineering was the most popular course among applicants and therefore the most competitive. Therefore, candidates aiming for top branches should secure a rank of 792 or lower to get the best chance of admission at IIT Guwahati.

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, or IIT Guwahati, is a government institute and was established in 1994. It is the 6th IIT established by the Government of India and has been ranked 7th under the Engineering category by the NIRF 2024. The university has also been ranked in the band 334 by the QS World University Rankings 2026.

IIT Guwahati offer M.Tech for the duration of 2 years in various specialisations such as Computer Science and Engineering, Biotechnology, Food Science and Technology, etc. via 11 Departments. IIT Guwahati M.Tech admission is entrance-based. Further, the M.Tech selections are done based on the exam and counselling rounds. 

Candidates must secure a valid score in BTech or BE/ MCA/ MSc/ Graduation (AMIETE) with 60% aggregate or 6.0 CPI. The minimum marks requirement is relaxed by lowering 0.5% CPI or 5% aggregate for SC/ST/PwD category candidates. In addition to this, candidates must qualify GATE and COAP counselling.

IT JAM Fifth Admission List 2024 has been released for IIT Roorkee admisison to the MSc courses. As per the IIT Roorkee JAM cutoff 2024, the required score to get into IIT Roorkee for General All India category candidates varied between 52 and 232. Similarly, for the OBC AI category candidates, the required rank lie between 109 and 420.

So, considering the previous year rank, one can easily get a call from IIT Roorkee with a JAM score of 232 under General AI category. Meanwhile, candidates can refer to the table below to check out the IIT Roorkee MSc cutoff 2024 for Round 1: 

The institute doesn't offers any scholarship to its students. Provided, the candidates studying at IIIT Guwahati can avail scholarship benefits offered by some government agencies. The list of scholarships offered by other government agencies is given below: 

• National Scholarship Portal
• Direct Admission of Students Abroad (DASA)
• National Academic Depository (NAD)
• Department of Higher Education, MHRD

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:

Some of the top regular recruiters who were part of IIT Guwahati placements in recent years are tabulated 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.

Professor & HOD salary in IIT Guwahati ranges between INR 18.0 lakhs and INR 22.0 lakhs per year. This is an estimate based on salaries received from employees of IIT Guwahati on Ambition Box. Most of the faculty members at IIT Guwahati are PhD holders from the renowned institutions.

IIT Guwahati has a seat intake of 114 for the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) specialisation offered under the BTech programme. This seat intake has been derived from the official website of JoSAA. At the time of counselling, candidates are admitted based on their rank in JEE Advanced and in accordance with the seat intake and the reservation policies.

IIT Guwahati campus offers all the necessary facilities to its students. Some of the campus facilities include state-of-the-art auditorium, conference hall and seminar hall, a fully Wi-Fi campus, hostels facility for boys and girls and libraries, among others.

IIT Guwahati has a seat intake of 33 for MDes, including 13 seats for the General category. The institute reserves 3 seats for the EWS General category and 9 seats for OBC-NCL. For SC and ST, the institute offers 5 and 3 seats, respectively. This seat intake is as per the past years' data and hence is subject to changes. Admission for all these seats are done through a common selection process. Click here for the detailed admission process for MDes course offered at IITG.

Yes, IIT Guwhati offers separate hostel facilities for both boys and girls. There are eleven boys’ hostels and two girls’ hostels for accommodating students with their own individual rooms. The accommodation is single-seater. These hostels are equipped with all modern amenities. Each of these hostels has its own mess, canteen, stationary shop, juice center, pantry, indoor games facilities, gymnasium, music rooms, library, TV room, laundry room among many other facilities with uninterrupted power supply.