IIT Guwahati scholarships are awarded to meritorious and talented undergraduate and postgraduate students. These scholarships are divided into three categories namely-Institute Scholarships, Other Scholarships and Assistantships. Any one of the IIT Guwahati scholarships can be availed by eligible students.

Institute scholarships: IIT Guwahati offers three types of institute scholarships for its graduate/ postgraduate students. Tabulated below are details on types of institute scholarships and awards:

Scholarship Awards

Institute merit scholarship

Tuition fee waiver and a monthly stipend for eight months.

Institute merit-cum-means scholarship

Tuition fee waiver and a monthly stipend for eight months.

SC-ST scholarship

Monthly stipend for eight months, free messing, hostel seat rent waiver, tuition fee waiver for all SC-ST students

Other Scholarships: IIT Guwahati allows its students to avail of other scholarships offered by central/ state government or private corporates.

Assistantships: These are applicable to all MTech, MDes and PhD regular students. Assistantships are offered as per the norms of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India or IIT council.

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4.5

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4.4
Infrastructure
4.6
Faculty & Course Curriculum
4.2
Crowd & Campus Life
4.7
Value for Money
4.6
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ARINDOM BIKASHNEOG | Ph.D. in Chemistry - Batch of 2022
Reviewed on 10 Aug 2025
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5.0
Placements 5 Infrastructure 5 Faculty & Course Curriculum 5 Crowd & Campus Life 5 Value for Money 5
Satisfied with staff members and working operation.

Placements: 20% of students opt for this course. The highest package is 30 LPA, and the lowest package is 10 LPA. Top recruiting companies are Sun Pharma, Lupin, and Ranbaxy, chemical and materials Science companies like Aditya Birla, Jaypee Group, and TATA Chemical. 95% of students got an internship. Top roles offered are professors, researchers, or work in R&D in various sectors.

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Rohan | M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering - Batch of 2023
Reviewed on 5 Aug 2025
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4.0
Placements 4 Infrastructure 4 Faculty & Course Curriculum 4 Crowd & Campus Life 4 Value for Money 4
IIT University, Guwahati.

Placements: We are IIT students, so definitely each one got a placement. So many M.Tech students have joined the CSE course. Highest package is about 2.4 crore, and lowest package is 35 Lacs. So many top MNC companies came to our college, they are Google, Microsoft, Flipkart, Amazon, etc.

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aditya roy bardhan | B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering - Batch of 2025
Reviewed on 26 Aug 2025
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3.0
Placements 3 Infrastructure 4 Faculty & Course Curriculum 4 Crowd & Campus Life 1 Value for Money 3
Review of IIT Guwahati - Indian Institute of Technology. 

Placements: Till now, there is no data about placements. 92% of students have received internships. Top recruiting companies are Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, IBM, TCS, and Deloitte. I personally got an offer off-campus from SpaceX. The most common roles seen are Data Scientist, Analyst, AI Engineer, and Software Developer.

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Rohan Jaiswal | M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering - Batch of 2023
Reviewed on 31 Jul 2025
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4.2
Placements 4 Infrastructure 4 Faculty & Course Curriculum 5 Crowd & Campus Life 4 Value for Money 4
IIT Guwahati - A great college .

Placements: Almost 85-90 percent students from my college got into one or more companies. Many big companies like IBM, Google, Amazon visits for the campus placement as it is an IIT. So we got benefit for being an IITian. The average package bagged by students in M.Teach was around 15LPA.

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Raktim Gogoi | Ph.D. in Chemistry - Batch of 2024
Reviewed on 27 Jul 2025
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5.0
Placements 5 Infrastructure 5 Faculty & Course Curriculum 5 Crowd & Campus Life 5 Value for Money 5
IIT Guwahati is an awesome college.

Placements: IIT Guwahati campus is very large. Since I am a Ph.D. scholar, the research facilities in this college are very good.  Around 80-85% of students get placed in our course. The highest salary package in our college is 57 LPA, the average salary package is 11 LPA, and the lowest salary package is 6 LPA. Companies like Aditya Birla, Tata, and PhonePe recruit students from our course. Every student gets an internship in the 2nd or 3rd year through hard work.

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BIKOSHITA PORASHAR | Ph.D. in Chemistry - Batch of 2023
Reviewed on 8 Oct 2024
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3.6
Placements 4 Infrastructure 4 Faculty & Course Curriculum 4 Crowd & Campus Life 4 Value for Money 2
Best college with the best placement.

Placements: IIT Guwahati is well known for the best placement. I love IIT because of there placement percentage up to 100%. I am a passout student. The highest package offered in our course is 67 LPA and the lowest package offered is 8 to 10 LPA. The recruiting companies are Biocon, Cipla, Sun Parma, Dr. Reddy's and many others. The internship opportunities of our course are 92%. The roles, such as research intern and other posts, are offered. I am proud to be an IITian.

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The BTech scholarships at IIT Guwahati have different eligibility criteria. Some of them are merit based scholarships where, the candidates are offered BTech scholarships due totheir high score in either the JEE Advanced exam or their last qualifying exam. Candidates who belong to the SC/ST groups a

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Yes, IIT Guwahati offers scholarships to BDes students. The institute offers Institute Merit Scholarship, Institute Merit-cum-Means (McM) Scholarships, SC-ST Scholarships and others. Apart from this, the institute also offers assistanship to BDes students. Assistantships are provided to regular stud

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Answered 2 years ago

If you're considering studying at IIT Guwahati, you'll be happy to know that the institution recognizes and rewards academic excellence in its students. IIT Guwahati offers a range of scholarships to both undergraduate and postgraduate students to encourage and support their academic pursuits. One o

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No, it is not easy to get admission at IIT Guwahati as the institute conducts its admission process through accepted entrance exams conducted by various authorities. Some of the popular entrance exams accepted by the institute are JEE Main, CAT, GATE, CEED, NET, JEE Advanced, etc. Candidates must ap

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