IIT Guwahati: Admission 2026, Cutoff, Placements, Courses, Fees, Ranking, Reviews

Yes, IIT Guwahati is considered to be one of the top IITs. Although it is not as famous as IIT Delhi or Madras, the institute is ranked quite high for Engineering programmes. On the basis of NIRF 2025 report, IIT G ranked at #8. The top seven places were occupied by other IITs only. When compared with newer gen of IITs, it holds a better standing and status quo. Also, IIT Guwahati was the sixth IIT to be established. Hence, yes, it usually falls in top to mid-tier IITs.

IIT Guwahati MDes fee is INR 60,000. Candidates belonging to SC/ST/PwD categories are exempted from payment of tuition fees. Moreover, the total course fee will be higher and include other components such as hostel fee, admission fee, caution money deposit, etc. Further, it must be noted that the given fee is as per unofficial sources and hence is indicative.

Yes, pursuing BTech from IIT Guwahati is worth it. The institute carries the tag of 'IIT', which in itself has a reputed standing. IIT Guwahati also ranked at #8 as per the NIRF 2025 data. IIT Guwahati saw a placement rate of 62% last year with the highest pacakge being INR 1.25 crore. The institute enjoys the perks and academic facilities of being one of the 23 IITs, but sees a relatively lower cutoff than other popular IITs. 

Professor & HOD salary in IIT Guwahati ranges between INR 18.0 lakhs and INR 22.0 lakhs per year. This is an estimate based on salaries received from employees of IIT Guwahati on Ambition Box. Most of the faculty members at IIT Guwahati are PhD holders from the renowned institutions.

India's premiere b-schools accept CAT for MBA admissions. More than 2.5 lakh candidates fighting for limited seats at these institutes make the exam tough to crack.

The selection criteria for the M.Tech programme offered at IIT Guwahati comprises a valid GATE score followed by COAP counselling. Aspirants with a valid BTech or BE/ MCA/ MSc/ AMIETE degree with 60% aggregate or 6.0 CPI can apply. The GATE application process is carried out online (gate.iitk.ac.in). Applications must be submitted within the due date. The GATE application fee for boys is INR 1,700, INR 850 for girls, and INR 850 for SC/ST/PwD category students.

IIT Guwahati has a decent placement record of placements for courses like BTech, MTech, MBA, BDes, etc. Check out the key highlights of IIT Guwahati placements for the Class of 2024 and 2025 in the table below:

IIT Guwahati conducts the application process in online mode. The step-wise process is provided below:

1. Open the official website and register.
2. Fill in the required details and complete the registration.
3. Fill the detailed application form. In this step, candidates have to provide details of educational qualifications, parents' details, address of communication and permanent address, and exam center preference.
4. Upload scanned images of passport-size photographs and signature.
5. Pay the application fee.
6. The application form will be automatically submitted after the successful payment of application fees.

To qualify for IIT Guwahati MBA programme CAT is mandatory. Without a valid CAT score interested students cannot apply for MBA at IIT Guwahati. The candidates must visit the official website of CAT to register. The registration process requires to upload required documents. However, to know the MBA application fee at IIT Guwahati can check the points mentioned below:

• All Female Candidates: INR 800
• All Transgender Candidates: INR 800
• All SC/ ST/ PwD Candidates : INR 800
• All Other Candidates : INR 1,600

To apply for BTech at IIT Guwahati candidates are required to fill out the application form by visiting the official website of JEE Main. Given below are step-by-step process to apply for BTech:

Step 1: Register and appear for JEE Mains exam.

Step 2: Qualify JEE Main and appear for the JEE Adv. exam.

Step 3: Register for JoSAA Counselling.

Step 4: Seat Allotment is conducted by JoSAA.

Step 5: Report at alloted college and Pay the fee.

In order to get admision at IIT Guwahati, the candidate have to meet the last educational qualification. To know the selection criteria for few of a top courses offered at IIT Guwahati students can check the table below:

The overall placement rate recorded during IIT Guwahati BDes placements 2026 was 63.04%. A total of 46 students registered and 28 students were placed in 2026. 

The key highlights of BDes placements at IIT Guwahati for 2025 and 2026 are given below:

842 students registered, and 637 students were placed during IIT Guwahati BTech placements 2025. BTech placement rate recorded in 2025 was 75.65%. 

IIT Guwahati cutoff 2026 for the SC AI category ranged from 676 in the first round to 2187 in the last round. As per this range, MSc in Mathematics and Computing was the most competitive course for admission, with the highest acceptable cutoff of 676. Students can check the table below for the Round 1 and last round closing ranks for different All India categories.

Yes, candidates can withdraw their admission in MBA from IIT Guwahati. If candidates withdraw admission by 20 July 2026, a sum of INR 1,000 shall be deducted from the fee deposited. 

In case of other late requests, only the refundable portion of the fee deposited shall be returned. The applicable refund amount shall be processed from IIT Guwahati in October 2026

IIT Guwahati offers a total of 30 seats for MBA programme. Check below the seats division at ITT Guwahati for MBA admission: 

• Open Merit: 12
• GEN-EWS: 03
• OBC-NCL: 08
• SC: 05
• ST: 02

Note: This is taken from the official website of college. It can change.

Candidates wishing to take admission in PhD at IIT Guwahati have to appear in a written test followed by personal interview.

Check below the test pattern for written test at IIT Guwahati for PhD admission: 
Mathematical Foundations:
Propositional and First order logic. Sets, relations, functions, partial orders. Graphs: connectivity, matching, coloring. Combinatorics: counting, recurrence relations, generating functions. Matrices, determinants, system of linear equations, eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Random variables. Uniform, normal, exponential, Poisson and binomial distributions. Mean, median, mode, and standard deviation. Conditional probability and Bayes theorem.

Programming, Data Structure and Algorithms:
Programming in C. Recursion.
Arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists, trees, binary search trees, binary heaps, graphs.
Algorithms: Searching, sorting, hashing. Asymptotic the worst-case time and space complexity. Algorithm design techniques: greedy, dynamic programming and divide-and-conquer. Graph traversals, minimum spanning trees, the shortest paths

Computer Systems:
Boolean algebra. Combinational and sequential circuits. Number representations, fixed and floating point computer arithmetic. Machine instructions and addressing modes. Instruction pipelining, pipeline hazards. Memory hierarchy: cache, main memory and secondary storage; I/O interface, interrupts and DMA.
Operating Systems: processes, threads, inter-process communication, concurrency and synchronization. Deadlocks, CPU scheduling. Memory management and virtual memory.
Computer Networks: OSI and TCP/IP reference model, basics of packet and circuit switching; medium access control, flow control and routing protocols, IP addressing, UDP, TCP, sockets.

Yes, IIT Guwahati released GATE 2026 qualifying cutoff marks for all subjects on March 28. Candidates can check passing mark of respective papers now.