Ph.D. in Humanities and Social Sciences 

at IIT Tirupati, Chittoor

IIT Tirupati welcome aspirants from ASEAN countries to apply for PhD fellowships. The full-time foreign PhD research scholars are eligible for financial assistantship of INR 25,000 per month for the first two years and INR 28000 per month for next three years of registration. All such research scholars have to put in eight hours every week towards work assigned by the institute.

The list of documents required for PhD admission are listed below:

• Admission offer
• Birth certificate
• Aadhaar number and PAN number
• First page of SSLC/ SSC/ matriculation certificate
• Copy of the submitted application form
• Original GATE scorecard or CSIR-UGC-JRF/ LS/ NET/ DAE-JEST or other fellowship award letter
• Degree certificate/ provisional/ course completion certificate/ grade cards/ mark sheets of all the semesters of degrees obtained.
• SC/ ST/ EWS/ OBC-NCL community certificate for the candidate belonging to SC/ST/ EWS/ OBC-NCL category (OBC-NCL scholars to bring a non-creamy layer community certificate valid at the time of admission)
• Relieving order/ Resignation acceptance letter from the employer in the case of full-time candidates, if employed
• Relieving letter, NOC/ permission and consent of co-guide from the parent organisation in case of external candidates

It depends on the market competition, student’s core expertise and academic track recorded how good the campus placement he or she can get. Students can check IIT Tirupati branch-wise BTech placement statistics to analyse the campus placement performance at IIT Tirupati, on the official IIT Tirupati website.

The list of top recruiters who participated during IIT Tirupati placements 2024 is presented below:

As per the external sources, a major portion of IIT Tirupati is placed in the Engineeirng (29%) and Research (29%) sectors, followed by Operations (7%). A sector-wise bifurcation of IIT Tirupati alumni placements throughout the years is illustrated in the infographic below:

IIT Tirupati offers a large diversity of courses to students in various fields. IIT Tirupati admissions are held on the basis of entrance tests. Students seeking course admissions must clear their previous qualifying examination and appear for any of the prescribed entrance exams such as JEE Main, JEE Advanced, IIT JAM, UGC NET, JEST, GATE, among others. Students can visit the official website to learn more regarding the course-wise eligibility and specialisation details.

IIT Tirupati offers BTech in CSE course based on JEE Advanced scores. Candidates are allowed to get admission through their valid JEE Advanced scores. Among all the courses, CSE remained the most demanded course over the years. As per IIT Tirupati cutoff 2024, the CSE last-round cutoff stood at 5024 for the General AI category candidates. Comparing the 2024 CSE cutoff with previous year, an increase in the CSE cutoff has been seen in 2024. However, the CSE cutoff fallen from 4011 in 2022 to 3701 in 2023 for the General AI category candidates. Candidates can find below the CSE cutoffs for five years from the table below:

For the SC category students under the AI quota, the JEE Advanced cutoff ranks varied between 1018 and 3060 for core branches, including CSE, Civil, Chemical, etc. For the core branches, mostly the cutoffs are on the higher side for admission. Candidates seeking admission to core branches must target securing a cutoff rank of up to 3060 to improve their chances of admission at IIT Tirupati. Refer to the table below to view the last round closing ranks of IIT Tirupati core branches for 2025. 

The sector-wise placement detaols for the Class of 2025 are yet to be released. Earlier, Software Development domain emerged as the top recruiting domain that placed 25.7% of the total students during IIT Tirupati placements 2023. The domain-wise placement distribution recorded during IIT Tirupati placements 2023 is presented below:

The domain-wise placement distribution recorded during IIT Tirupati placements 2023 is presented below:

IIT Tirupati accepts JEE Advanced for admission into BTech courses. The cut-off for JEE Advanced is released in the form of Cutoff ranks. The number of seats available is directly propotionate to Cutoff ranks. the trend observed indicates that as the number of students appearing increases, the closing ranks also increase. Looking at the Cutoff ranks for this year, the numbers showed that the number of seats have increased in comparison to the last year, as the Cutoff ranks have also increased. This also indicates that the competition has declined. Looking at the Cutoff ranks fot the past three years, the competition has been fluctuating. This also indicates that the competition has been fluctuating for the past 3 years. Candidates can check the closing Cutoff ranks for different courses in respect of the General AI category in the table below: