IIT Madras - Indian Institute of Technology Adyar Chennai Answered Questions

Hello Krishna,
It's really good to know your dream of becoming an engineer from IIT. Nothing to worry. Diploma holders are considered as equivalent to 12th. I hope you have scored 75% here, as it's minimum required. Now you appear for JEE Mains and then JEE Advanced. Score good marks and admission is yours.

Greetings,
I would like to mention that, IIT, Madras is known as one of the best colleges for civil engineering.
There are awesome packages offered in placements for civil engineering at IIT, Madras. Almost 95% ratio is seen every year. The scope of civil branch is quite good.
The minimum.package offered is Rs 4 to Rs 5. Average package of civil engineering at IIT, Madras is around Rs 8 to Rs 9 lakhs per annum and has gone up to around Rs 17 LPA.
Many multinational companies visit here and offer good packages to Civil Engineers.
Companies like American Express, Axis Bank, Amazon , Google, Microsoft,Yahoo, Reliance Industries, PepsiCo, Glenmark, Wipro, Asian Paints, Sun pharma, Dr.Reddy , Zydus Wellness, Cadilla Pharma, Adani Group, HPCL, BPCL, Lodha Group, Samsung, Paytm, Ashok Leyland, UBER Qualcomm etc.
Civil Branch is a good choice, the placement ratio of civil branch also may increase in future with good amount of packages by the companies.
Many students get internship through professors of campus.
Hope it helped!
Regards

Hello Dhruv,
IIT, Chennai, is the top-ranked institute as per some reports. Also if the reports are correct it was the second preference choice of many students after IIT, Mumbai. So, for sureshot admission, you should try to obtain rank in top 100.

If aerospace is what excites you I would recommend you take up neither. IIST is the right place for you as it paves a way for you to go to ISRO.
Regardless, if you still wish to go to one of the IITs, IIT Madaras is a lot better place for you to take up aerospace engineering, only because of the advanced laboratories and the spectacular reputation of the faculty members at IIT Chennai.
Again, take up aerospace engineering only if you are really interested in the field, as there are not many core companies to recruit undergraduates in aerospace, and if that happens, you'll probably end up in any IT company like TCS, which will be a complete waste of your degree.
Although it is the best place for you start at if you intend to study further for MS/PhD. It gives opportunity for the top 10% percent students of the batch to get admission in the ivy league of colleges in USA, which is the entry ticket to the major core franchise present all around the world.
I hope you make the right choice.
Cheers!

Dear Anjali Prasad, surely the science students can apply for the course. Integrated M.A. in Development Studies at IITM is an experiential learning based program. It has been designed in order to provide conceptual learning and knowledge based skills to students. Course pedagogy is designed uniquely in which students will be provided rigorous training. This 5 year integrated program helps designing a bright career in the field.
The students for the integrated masters program at IIT-M are selected through the Humanities and Social Sciences Entrance Examination (HSEE) conducted by IIT, Madras every year in the month of May. The exam is highly competitive and only about 2 percent of the candidates taking the exam are finally selected for the course.
To be eligible for admission, the student should have scored 60% (5% relaxation for SC/ST/PD) marks in aggregate in board examination and JEE(Main) & JEE (Advanced).
For further details kindly visit the below mentioned URL: http://hsee.iitm.ac.in/elig_crit.php.
I hope this would suffice. All the best and God bless you.