NIT Meghalaya M.Sc. Courses & Fee 2024: Admission, Eligibility & Seats

NIT Meghalaya is among the newly established NITs in the northeast region. It managed to secure 72nd under engineering category. As for its placement,   NIT Meghalaya concluded the 2023 placement session with199 job offers. The NIT Meghalaya average package and the highest package stood at INR 11.10 LPA and INR 32 LPA, respectively. Additionally, the lowest package offered was INR 3.6 LPA. Over 60 companies participated in NIT Meghalaya placements 2023, including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Wipro, Infosys, TCS, Deloitte, etc.,

Direct admission is not offered for MSc at NIT Meghalaya. Admission to MSc is based on the JAM scores followed by CCMN counselling. However, the institute conducts entrance exam to fill the vacant seats after CCMN counselling. Further, before applying for the MSc programme, candidates must qualify for the course-wise eligibility criteria.

Eligibility criteria: Bachelor's degree Bsc with 60% aggregate in Chemistry as Honours/Major

Selection criteria: IIT JAM+ CCMN

Read on to know more about NIT Meghalaya MSc programme.

IIT JAM subjects include Biotechnology, Chemistry, Economics, Geology, Mathematical Statistics, Mathematics, and Physics. Students can appear for their subjects of choice.

For admission to MSc programme at NIT Meghalaya candidate must complete the institution's entrance standards, which include achieving a valid score in the Indian Institute of Technology Joint Admission Test for MSc followed by CCMN Counselling.  Also candidates have to fulfill the eligibility criteria i.e. Bachelor's degree with 60% aggregate.  NIT Meghalaya conducts its own admission process for the left over seats from the CCMN counselling process.

 NIT Meghalaya offeres MSc in full time under three specialisations, as follows

• Physics
• Chemistry 

• Mathematics

The programme is offered via choice-based credit system covering core subject topics, including Organic Chemistry, Symmetry & Group Theory, Molecular Spectroscopy, etc. Students can get into the MSc course based on a valid score on the IIT JAM exam and the counseling conducted by the Centralized Counseling for MSc CCMN

NIT Meghalaya offeres two years full-time MSc progarmme especially for the graduate students to pursue their studies in the fields of science. However, candidates are required to fulfill the eligibility criteria laid down by the institution, which are as follows:

• Candidates must have bachelor’a degree in BSc with 60% aggregate
• Must qualify for the Joint Admission Test for Masters (IIT Jam) with a valid score
• Register for seat allocation through the Centralized Counselling for MSc (CCMN)

IIT JAM 2026 application correction window is expected to be opened in November 2025. The dates are currently unspecified and November 20 is expected to be the tentative date.

Yes, NIT Meghalaya offers MSc as a postgraduate programme for two years. The programme is offered across three specialisations which include Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics. Candidates willing to be admission in MSc must have a bachelor’s degree with 60% aggregate in Chemistry as an Honours/Major. Additionally, candidates are required to qualify the IIT Jam exam and apply for the CCMN counseling. If candidates fail to secure a seat via the CCMN they can always go for the institution-based entrance exam conducted especially for the vacant seats left after the CCMN counselling process.

Getting into MSc Meghalaya is not that tough, if candidates work hard and follow the complete admission process of NIT Meghalaya they might end up getting admissio. Read carefully the completed admission process of NT Meghalaya’s MSc programme:

• Candidates must have a bachelor’a degree in BSc with 60% aggregate
• Must qualify the Joint Admission Test for Masters (IIT Jam) with a valid score
• Register for seat allocation through the Centralized Counselling for MSc (CCMN)
• If candidates couldn't secure seat via CCMN, they can register themselves in the institutiin based process for the left over seats.

Yes, IIT Jam 2024 dates for admission to NIT Meghalaya MSc programme are out now but the dates are tentative. The MSc registraton has closed for now. IITs will conduct  IIT JAM 2024 exam in two sessions in February. The exact date of the exam for both sessions will be announced in the notification. Candidates can check here MSc 2024 dates and the schedule of all events of the examination including exam pattern, correction, admit card, exam, answer key, and result here.

Exam dates for IIT JAM for admission to NIT Meghalaya MSc is scheduled on February 11,2024. As per the exam pattern of IIT Jam, the exam is conducted online as a Computer Based Test (CBT). IIT Jam will have two papers, Paper 1 will include Chemistry, Geology, and Mathematics. Paper 2 will cover economics, Biotechnology, Physics, and Mathematics Statitics. The duration of the IIT Jam exam is three hours and has Multiple Choice (MCQ) and Integer Value (Numerical Value Answer) type questions. IIT Jam exam papers will be for 100 marks.