IIT Palakkad Ph.D. Courses & Fees 2026

IIT Palakkad admission 2024 is primarily entrance-based. IIT Palakkad offers over 30 courses at UG PG and doctoral levels through 11 departments. The courses include BTech and MTech in Engineering stream. The students are selected based on different national-level entrance tests like JEE Main JEE Advanced GATE etc. Additionally institute also offers PG Certificate courses in Cloud Computing and Cyber Security.

To apply for admission at IIT Palakkad flaship programme BTech, candidates must register themseleves in the officail website of JEE Main, JEE Advanced and JoSAA. Admission is based on the entrance exams and counselling process. Therefore, candidates are required to register on the official website of the entrance exam and the counselling bodies. 

• For BTech programmme admissionis based on JEE Main, JEE Advanced scores followed by JoSAA Counselling. In order to apply for BTech at IIT Palakkad, students are required to apply via JEE Main followed by JEE Advanced application.

1. Open the official website (jeemain.nta.nic.in) and click on the ‘Registration for JEE (Main) 2024’ link.
2. Fill the registration form with the required information followed by clicking on the 'submit' button.
3. Fill out the detailed application form and upload scanned images and documents.
4. Pay the application fees.

To apply in the doctoral cousres candidates can follow the below mentioned steps:

• Kindly go through the information brochure before applying to this portal.
• Create an account in the portal.
• Please check your email for the welcome email. 
• Log in with your email and password.
• Click on "Programs" > Choose "MS" or “PhD”.
• Click the "Apply" button against the MS/PhD programme that you wish to apply.
• Fill personal details.
• Create Academic Bank of Credits (ABC) ID 
• Fill qualification details. 
• Enter the details of your GATE/UGC-NET/Other National Level Test scores
• Upload the required documents. If you do not possess a valid category Certificate (due to current situation),   please fill the enclosed undertaking and upload the same in PDF format

To get admission in IIT Palakkad candidates must follow the admission process as per the institution's admission guidelines. IIT Palakkad admission is completely entrance-based for all the courses offered by the institute. IIT Dharwad offers BTech (integrated course) at the undergraduate level. MTech/ MSc at postgrauate level and PhD / MS at doctoral level. Candidates must follow the admission procedure of IIT Palakkad: 

Step 1: IIT Palakkad Application Process

IIT Palakkad conducts the application process for admission to its offered courses. However, for a few course candidates are required to complete the entrance exam's registration/application process.

• BTech and BS aspirants must fill out the application form for JEE (Main) via the official website of the National Testing Agency (NTA) (nta.ac.in). Read more
• MTech candidates must register for GATE via the official website of GATE Online Application Processing System (GOAPS) (appsgate.iitd.ac.in). Read more
• MSc candidates must register for the Joint Admission Test for Masters (JAM). Admission to each of the MSc courses will be offered to those who qualified in the exams and appear for the JAM counselling process.
• For PhD and MSstudents are required to apply via the official website of IIT Palakkad. Candidates must register and fill out the application form online.

Step 2: IIT Palakkad Selection Process

Candidates are shortlisted based on their qualifications. Next candidates are required to go through the selection process which requires candidates to go through the course-based entrance exam followed by other selection rounds (if applicable). After the selection rounds are completed, they are required to go through the course-wise counselling process for final seat allocation. For PhD and MS, IIT Palakkad conducts its own written test and personal interview for selection.

Step 3: IIT Palakkad seat allocation

Seat allocation for BTech is conducted by the JoSAA (Joint Seat Allocation Authority) counseling plays a crucial role in the final selection process, as it facilitates the allocation of seats in the BTech programme at IIT Palakkad. For M.Tech candidates must participate in the GATE counselling for seat allocation. And for MSc JAM counselling is accepted.

Step 4: IIT Palakkad Final Admission

Once the seats are allocated, applicants who are selected can submit the admission charges and confirm their admission to the relevant course at IIT Bombay. Candidates might have to visit the institute's admission office to verify the documents.

The right approach and a preparation plan for admission to BTech at IIT Palakkad are all that is needed to ace JEE Main. While students who are serious about getting into an IIT start preparing from Class 11, a prep strategy for the exam is mentioned below:

• Choose the reference books wisely
• Solve as many Mock Tests as possible. Shiksha.com is providing FREE NCERT JEE Main Mock Test Paper (with Solutions).
• Revise as much as possible
• Cross-check section-wise weightage & syllabus for all subjects covered in JEE Main
• Solve previous year’s JEE question papers there are high chances of getting questions from there
• To secure admission into prestigious institutions such as the IITs, NITs and IIITs, it is essential for the aspirants to have a strong command on the material taught in their class 11 and class 12. Shiksha is offering free NCERT questions and solutions to aid JEE candidates in excelling in these classes. To access the NCERT solutions, click on the below links:

While the short-term goal must be to clear JEE Main, the ultimate objective must be to qualify JEE Advanced exam, check out the preparation strategy for JEE Advanced.