IIT Online Courses without JEE: Check Dates & Duration

Different short-term and certificate online courses are being offered by IITs across India. Check details of the online courses including fee, duration, certification, and more in this article. 

Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) are the premier engineering institutes that offer admission to various BTech courses. It is the dream for every engineering aspirant to get admission in any of the top-rated IITs in India but only a few thousands secure a seat every year due to the tough competition through JEE Advanced. Therefore along with regular courses, short, intensive courses across IITs are being offered to students, research scholars, and other professionals to enhance and acquire new skills in different fields. The online courses offered by IITs are short-term certification programs which last a maximum of a year or two. To know more about these IIT online courses such as the eligibility, duration, fee and other details read the complete article below.

Top Online Courses offered by IITs

IITs are offering various short-term online courses across different fields in engineering. Here is the list of some online courses offered by some of the top IITs for students, research scholars, and faculty members.

Short Term Online Courses by IIT Bombay

IIT Bombay, established in 1958, is one of the oldest Indian Institutes of Technology in India. IIT Bombay has ranked on 34th position among the top 200 Universities in Asia category by the QS Asia Ranking 2020 and ranked on 172nd in QS World University Rankings in 2021. IIT Bombay offers various online courses along with regular courses.

Course & Duration	Course Fee	Eligibility Criteria
Multiscale Crystal Plasticity Modeling (Department of Computer Science and Engineering) Duration: 5 Days	Academia (College teachers only): Rs 18,000 Govt. Organization: Rs 25,000 Industry: Rs 35,000 Overseas / Foreign National: Rs 50,000 Student (Full TIme): Rs 9000	The course is open for faculty members, Students (undergraduate, masters and PhD) working in the area of multiscale mechanics of deformation and plasticity Industry professionals in the metal industry, automobile, MEMS 3. Researchers at national labs 4. Faculty members
AIML with Python (Industrial Engineering & Operations Research) Duration: 5 Days	(inclusive of 18% GST) Others: Rs 1,47,500	This program is beneficial to Industry Professionals.
Multiscale Materials Informatics, Discovery and Design (Mechanical Engineering) Duration: 5 Days	Academia (College teachers only): Rs 15,000 Govt. Organization: Rs 15,000 Industry: Rs 25,000 Overseas / Foreign National: Rs 50,000 Student (Full Time): Rs 10,000	This course is open for students (undergraduate, masters, PhD), faculty members, industry practitioners who will benefit from this course
Design Thinking (Industrial Design Centre) Duration: 5 Months	(inclusive of 18% GST) Others: Rs 1,18,000	The course can be taken for leaders, working professionals and to all the business-oriented persons.
Certificate Program in Design Thinking by IDC School of Design at IIT Bombay Duration: 5 Months Live Online Sessions - 3 Hours/ Saturday 3:30 PM - 6:30 PM	Rs. 1,00,000	Any Graduate/ Diploma holder with a minimum 1-year of work experience

Online Courses offered by IIT Madras

IIT Madras is the third oldest IIT in India. IIT Madras is known globally for excellence in technical education, basic and applied research, innovation, entrepreneurship, and industrial consultancy. IIT Madras offers BE/BTech students various online certificate courses at the institute along with other regular programs. The authority provides certificates after the completion of the courses. Below is the list of programs offered by IIT Madras in online mode.

Eligibility Criteria for students who passed class 12 or equivalent in 2019 or 2020:

• The candidate must have studied Mathematics and English in class 10
• They should have cleared class 12 or equivalent in 2019 or earlier

Eligibility Criteria for students who passed class 12 or equivalent in 2020 or 2021:

• The candidate must have studied Mathematics and English in class 10
• They should have cleared class 12 or equivalent in 2020 or 2021

The candidate should be:
(i) currently enrolled / previously enrolled in any Bachelor's Degree program in campus mode OR
(ii) completed 1 year (campus mode only) diploma OR
(iii) completed CA Inter

Course Name	Course Fee	Course duration
B.Sc. in Programming and Data Science - Online	Rs. 2.42 Lakh	3 years
Diploma in Data Science	Rs. 55,000	1 year
Diploma in Programming	Rs. 55,000	1 year
Foundation Course	Rs. 32,000	1 year

Short-Term Online Courses by IIT Kanpur

IIT Kanpur is one of the first Indian Institutes of Technology and has ranked 65 QS Asia Rankings 2020. IIT Kanpur offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, Management, Interdisciplinary, Humanities, and Social Science and Design. Along with regular courses the institute offers short-term online certificate courses to its students, research scholars, and faculty members. The authority offers various short-term courses for a duration of 6 weeks with a certificate. 

Course & Duration	Fee	Eligibility Criteria
Computer System Security Duration: 6 weeks	Rs 4,237 GST	Students: All students who are pursuing professional graduate/post-graduate courses related to Computer Science or Information Technology Teachers/Faculties: All computer science and engineering teachers/faculties Professionals: All IT professionals in the application development domain
Python Programming – A Practical Approach Duration: 6 weeks	Rs 4,237 GST	Students: All students who are pursuing professional graduate/post-graduate courses related to computer science / Information Technology Teachers/Faculties: All computer science teachers/faculties who wish to acquire new skills Professionals: All working professionals, who wish to enhance their skills
Prutor:- A Coding Platform Duration: 6 weeks	Rs 4,237.00 GST	Nil
Crash Course in Advanced Excel Techniques (M) Duration: 6 weeks	Rs 4,237 GST	Students: All students who use Excel regularly in their studies and wish to learn advanced techniques to get the most out of this versatile program. Teachers/Faculties: All teachers/faculties who wish to acquire new skills or improve their efficiency in the use of Excel. Professionals: All working professionals who wish to acquire new skills or improve their efficiency in the use of Excel, can take this course.
Comprehensive Ethical Hacking Course – Beginner to Advanced (M) Duration: 6 weeks	Rs 4,237 GST	Students: All students who are pursuing professional graduate/post-graduate courses related to computer science or Information Technology Teachers/Faculties: All computer science and engineering teachers/faculties Professionals: All IT professionals in the application development domain
Programming for Problem Solving (KCS101/KCS201) (M) Duration: 6 weeks	Rs 4,237 GST	Students: All students who are pursuing professional graduate/post-graduate courses related to computer science or Information Technology Teachers/Faculties: All computer science and engineering teachers/faculties Professionals: All IT professionals in the application development domain
R Programming – A Practical Approach Duration: 6 weeks	Rs 4,237 GST	Students: All students who are pursuing professional graduate/post-graduate courses in Data and statistical analysis Teachers/Faculties: All computer science and engineering teachers/faculties Professionals: All IT professionals from the data analysis industry
Crash Course in Java Programming (M) Duration: 6 weeks	Rs 4,237 GST	Students: All students who are pursuing professional graduate/post-graduate courses related to computer science or Information Technology Teachers/Faculties: All computer science teachers/faculties Professionals: All IT professionals, who wish to acquire new skills or upgrade their existing skills
Introduction to Machine  Learning Duration: 6 weeks	Rs 4,237 GST	Students: All students who are pursuing professional graduate/post-graduate courses related to computer science or Information Technology Teachers/Faculties: All computer science and engineering teachers/faculties Professionals: All IT professionals, who wish to acquire new skills or improve their existing skills
MERN Stack Developer Duration: 6 weeks	Rs 4,237 GST	Students: All students who are pursuing any technical/professional courses related to computer science / Information Technology. Teachers/Faculties: All computer science teachers/faculties who wish to acquire new skills. Professionals: All IT professionals, who wish to upgrade their skills.

Online Certificate Courses by IIT Kanpur 

Courses & Duration	Course Fee	Eligibility Criteria
Certification Course in IoT Systems Duration: Week Day and Weekend Program	Rs 9000 18% GST	All students who are pursuing any technical/professional courses and are looking forward to gaining Internet of Things (IoT) certification. Pass–out graduates, wishing to make a career in IoT Domain. All teachers/faculties who wish to acquire new skills or improve their efficiency in IoT. All working professionals, who wish to acquire new skills or who need to gain a high-level overview of IoT.
Advanced Certification in Cloud Computing Duration: 9-month Program	Rs 16,455 per month Total Program Fee - Rs 1.97 Lakh GST	Professionals seeking a transition to Cloud Computing domain from any background Freshers looking to kick start their career in the Cloud Computing Domain Cloud Computing professionals looking to enhance their skill sets
Advanced Certification in Data Analytics Duration: 90 hours of live online classes on weekends	NA	Education: Graduate or pursuing graduation in any field Experience: A programming background is not essential. However, participants should be willing to learn maths and basic programming in the course.
Advanced Certification in AI & Machine Learning Duration: 150 hours of live online classes on weekends	NA	Education: B.E/B.Tech/M.Tech/MCA/MS/MBA or B.Sc/M.Sc in Statistics/Maths/Physics/Economics or any quantitative field Experience: Comfort with learning maths and programming will be required. Not mandatory to have a programming background but will be helpful if you do.

Short-Term Online Courses Offered by IIT Kharagpur

IIT Kharagpur is the first IIT established in 1951 which offers a wide range of courses in the areas of science and technology, infrastructure designs, entrepreneurship, law, management, and medical science and technology. Along with regular courses, the institute also offers online certificate courses for a short duration.

Course & Duration	Course Fee	Eligibility Criteria
Management Development Programme On Frontiers Of Public-Private Partnership In Infrastructure Development FPID 2021 Duration: 3 Days	Category A: Foreign Participants - Rs 20,000 Category B: Industry Professionals - Rs 10,000 Category C: Academicians/ Others - Rs 6000 Category D: Students (Postgraduate) - Rs 3000	The course is addressed to post-graduates, corporates, executives, and academicians only.
Services in Large Scale Buildings Duration: 3 Days	Faculty and Members from the Industry: Rs 1000 Students and Research Scholars: Rs 500	Final year students of B.Arch, B.Tech / B.E. Civil Engineering, Post Graduate Student and Research Scholars from Architecture, Planning and Civil Engineering. Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering (Engineering College, School of Architecture and Poly-techniques), personnel from Government Institutions, Industry, and Research Organizations, Practicing Architects
Online Short Term Course on Digital Capability Enhancement for Performance Improvement Duration: 5 Days	The fee of this online programme is Rs 19,990 per participant, from India with GST 18%	This intensive short term course is open for coal , Ore and minerals, Oil and gas Engineers, administrators
Financial and Social Inclusion Duration: 5 Days	Free	UG –PG students [technology, management and development sector] Aspiring young professionals in development sector Managers in development projects Bank officials NGO/Civil Societies officials working in development areas Participants may install WebEx & MSTEAM application on their systems to avoid interruptions
Management Development Programme On Econometrics Analysis Of Time Series Data (EATS 2021) Duration: 4 Days	Category A: Foreign Participants - Rs. 25,000 Category B: Corporate Professionals -Rs10,000 Category C: Academicians/ Others - Rs 8000 Category D: Students (Postgraduate) - Rs 6000	The course is addressed to post-graduates, corporates, executives, and academicians only.
Introduction to R Programming and Data Analytics  Duration:  6 hours session every weekend (Saturday 3 hours and Sunday 3 hours)	Category-1 (Students) - Rs 7000 (18%) Category-2 (Others): Rs 9000 (18%)	This course is available for the below categories Category-1 (Students): B.Tech/B.Sc/BCom students Category-2 (Others): Teachers / Scientific Officers / Instructors / Technical Assistants / Persons from Industries.

Short-Term Online Courses Offered by IIT Roorkee

IIT Roorkee is among the foremost institutes of national importance in higher technological education in engineering, basic and applied research. IIT Roorkee also offers students online certification courses delivered by Electronics and ICT (E&ICT) Academy at IIT Roorkee will help students gain knowledge in electronic manufacturing. 

Course & Duration	Course Fee	Eligibility Criteria
Post Graduate Programme in Data Science & Machine Learning  Duration: 11 Months Live Online Sessions: 3 Hours/ Saturday 2 PM - 4 PM	Rs 3 Lakh	Bachelor’s Degree in Science/Engineering with minimum 50% score No coding and mathematics background needed Minimum 2 years of work experience
Online Certification Course on Applied Data Science with Python Duration: 11 Months Live Online Sessions: 2 Hours/ Saturday: 2 PM - 4 PM	Rs 14,000	All undergraduates/postgraduates /working professionals/ Faculty from Academic and Research Organizations
Online Certification Course on Data Science & Machine Learning using Python Duration: 45 days	Rs 14,000	All undergraduates/postgraduates /working professionals/ Faculty from Academic and Research Organizations are eligible to apply for the course.

Short-Term Online Courses by IIT Delhi

IIT Delhi is one of the prestigious technology institutes offering admission to various courses in Engineering, Management, Science, Design, and more. Moreover, IIT Delhi provides online certificate courses apart from regular courses. Participants who are interested and seeking admission must fulfill the eligibility criteria set by the authority. Check the online course fee, duration, eligibility criteria to apply for IIT Delhi online certificate course below.

Course & Duration	Course Fee	Eligibility Criteria
Certificate Programme in Project Management Duration: 5 months	Rs 60,000 GST	Graduates (10 2 3)/ Diploma Holders (only 10 2 3) from a recognised university in any discipline
Certificate Programme in Digital Marketing Duration: 6 months	Rs 55,000 GST	Graduates/ Diploma Holders from a recognised university in any discipline. Students pursuing final year of Graduation can also apply.
Certificate Programme in Business Management Duration: 6 months	Rs 80,000 GST	Graduates/ Diploma holders in any discipline with a minimum 1 year of work experience
Certificate Programme in Data Science and Machine Learning Duration: 6 months	Rs 1.25 Lakh GST	Graduates (10 2 3)/ Diploma Holders (only 10 2 3) from a recognised university in any discipline
Certificate Programme in Human Resource Management Duration: 7 months	Rs 60,000 GST	Graduates/ Diploma Holders from a recognized university in any discipline. Students pursuing final year of Graduation can also apply
Certificate Programme in Design Thinking and Innovation Duration: 6 months	Rs 1 Lakh GST	Graduates/ Diploma holders in any discipline with minimum 1 year of work experience

Free Online Courses Offered by IITs

IITs and IISC have collaborated with National Programming on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) to offer free short-term courses through their online platform. Various IIT faculty members take up the online courses offered by IITs. Joining an online course is free of cost which is conducted generally for 8 to 12 weeks. Anyone can learn from these courses anywhere anytime by comfortably sitting at their homes. No pre-requisites, no age limit, no entrance criteria to enroll in the online courses. However, there is an optional entrance exam conducted by IITs that the learner can take for a prescribed fee at the end of the online course to earn certificates from the concerned IITs.

Also read: Students find value in NPTEL courses as IITs offer certification: IIT Madras Prof interview

Artificial Intelligence Course

Artificial Intelligence is one of the popular online courses offered by IITs. It is conducted every year by a faculty member. Through the Artificial Intelligence courses, candidates can learn an overview of the principles and practices of AI to address such complex real-world problems. The course is designed to develop a basic understanding of problem-solving, knowledge representation, reasoning, and learning methods of AI. It also teaches state-space search, algorithm, game playing, rule-based system, problem decomposition with goal trees, and others.

Top Institutes, which offer Artificial Intelligence online short term, is given below

• IIT Madras
• IIT Delhi
• IIT Kharagpur
• IIT Guwahati
• IIT Roorkee
• IIT Rupar

Aerospace Engineering Course

The course covers the various topics related to Aerospace Engineering through PowerPoint presentations, in-class activities, quizzes, and hands-on assignments. The topics that are covered over a period of 12 weeks are as follows:

• The atmosphere and its properties
• Nomenclature of aircraft components
• Fluid Mechanics: Incompressible flow, Bernoulli’s Equation, Coanda Effect, and Mach no, Viscous Flow, Boundary Layer, Pressure Measurement
• Aerodynamics: Airfoils, and Lift Generation Theories, Critical Mach no., Types of Drag
• Propulsion: Types of Aircraft Engines
• Aircraft Performance: Steady level flight, altitude effects, glide, climb, ceilings, turn, and pull up, takeoff and landing, range and endurance, range-payload diagram, and flapping wing aerodynamics
• Aircraft Longitudinal Stability, and V-n diagram

Data Science and Machine Learning

Certification in Data Science and Machine Learning is designed to equip professionals with competencies in the core focus areas including linear algebra, statistics, gradient calculus, and programming components. The course will develop relevant programming skills in Python and R to help learners understand the algorithms used in Data Analytics and build knowledge about the selected machine learning algorithms such as Linear models, kNN, SVM, Decision Trees, and Neural networks among others. The program requires no prior knowledge of coding in Python. IIT Roorkee will conduct R. Data Science and Machine Learning in October.

Biology meets engineering

One of the most demanding courses in both medical, engineering fields is biostatistics. The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Bombay) conducts an eight-week course on mechanobiology, biostatistics. In this course, students learn about different statistical tools required to
(i) analyze our observations,
(ii) design new experiments, and
(iii) integrate a large number of observations in a single unified model.

IIT Roorkee also conducts four-week online classes in biomedical nanotechnology, while IIT Kharagpur has 12-week courses in Industrial Biotechnology. Interested candidates will be able to apply through the website.

Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics Course

It is an eight-week course on thermodynamics of fluid phase equilibria. The candidates will get a certificate following an online examination conducted after the conclusion of the courses. The courses are free of cost, but there will be a fee of Rs 1,100 charged for the examination.

Robotics Course

There is a great demand for robotics in the field of the gaming industry and manufacturing units. The course is 12-weeks long, and aims to provide an understanding of the mechanical, electrical, and computer science aspects of Robotics. This course is a bridge course for undergraduate or graduate students from various disciplines to get a basic understanding of robotics. IIT Madras conducts this course free of cost. To obtain a certificate from IIT Madras and NPTEL, course participants will have to pay Rs 1000.

Through the course can get to learn the following topics.

• Introduction to Robotics: History, growth, robot applications – manufacturing industry, defense, rehabilitation, medical and so on, and laws of robotics
• Robot mechanisms, Kinematics- coordinate transformations, and DH parameters
• Forward kinematics, and Inverse Kinematics
• Jacobians, Statics, and Trajectory Planning
• Actuators (electrical) such as DC motors, and BLDC servo motors
• Sensors and sensor integration
• Control: PWM, joint motion control, and feedback control
• Computed torque control
• Perception, Localization and mapping
• Probabilistic robotics, Path planning, BFS, DFS, Dijkstra, A-star, D-star, Voronoi, Potential Field, and Hybrid approaches
• Simultaneous localization and mapping
• Introduction to reinforcement learning

Industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things (IoT)

Industrial Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 for students of electronics and communication, computer science engineering, electrical engineering, information technology, industrial engineering, and electrical engineering with the basics knowledge of the internet and computers.

Many other certificate courses are being offered free of cost. Institutes like IIT Kanpur offers a two-month course on Coding Theory. Microwave Engineering is a 12-week course by IIT Guwahati. IIT Delhi, IIT Roorkee conducted 12-week courses on Analog Electronic Circuit and Computer-aided Power System Analysis simultaneously. IIT Madras has started online courses for caregivers. Introduction to polymer physics, which is of two weeks, is conducted by IIT Guwahati.

Criteria to get an Online Course Certificate 

The certification for each of the courses can be obtained by the students after appearing in the entrance test conducted by the authority. The certificate will be calculated on the basis of the following criteria.

Online Learning and its Benefits

Most of the institutes, universities have adopted online learning and the student population in online classes is increasing fast. There are merits and demerits of online education. A few of the advantages that are gaining attention around the world for online course learning are:

1. Comfort zone of the students
2. Global  outreach
3. Saves time and cost
4. Choosing the best environment to study
5. Promoting the ability to understand
6. Short term courses at a minimum cost
7. Systematic approach
8. Preplanned lessons and chapters

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