IIT Guwahati: Cutoff 2026, Fees, Courses, Placement, Admission and Ranking

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. 

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.

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.

Admission to M.Tech at IITG is entirely based on GATE score. Candidates with a GATE rank between 600 and 800 and a score between 400 and 800 will have a good chance for getting admitted in an MTech course at IITG. However, as the cutoff marks change for every admission year, hence, the number can vary. A relaxation in the required cutoff is given to the candidates belonging to reserved categories.

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.

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

To apply for admission to the BTech course at IIT Guwahati, candidates must visit the official website of the National Testing Agency (NTA) and fill out the application form in online mode for JEE Main. For other courses such as MSc, MTech, BS-MS (Dual Degree) etc., candidates must visit the official website of respective national-level entrance exam conducting bodies and fill out the application form in online mode. IIT Guwahati admission to most of the courses is entrance-based.

Find below the detailed application process for the respective entrance exams:

• JEE Main Application Process 2025
• GATE Application Process 2025
• IIT JAM Application Process 2024

Candidates seeking admission in an IIT Guwahati MSc course must have a valid bachelor’s degree issued by a recognised university. Admission to the MSc course is based on merit in IIT JAM followed by CCMN counselling. The seat allotment is carried out based on document verification, seat intake, and category of the students, during the counselling. Moreover, the IIT JAM application process is carried out in online mode.

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.

IIT Guwahati JAM Cutoff 2026 has been released for Round 2, wherein the closing ranks ranged between 104 and 335 for the General AI category. 

Candidates not eligible for IIT Guwahati can opt for IIT Bhubaneswar with a lenient second-round cutoff range of 116 and 835 for the same category and quota. 

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.

IIT JAM 2026 cutoff for round 1 was released on May 25, 2026. While the round 2 cutoff rank was released on June 8, 2026. The link to check the IIT JAM admission cutoff is mentioned online.

Qualifying marks for JEE Mains 2026, also called qualifying percentile for JEE Mains will be announced by the NTA along with the JEE Main 2026 session 2 result. Candidates must note that qualifying percentile for JEE Mains 2026 is the minimum percentile required to appear in JEE Advanced 2026. For admission to NIT or IIITs, there is no provision of qualifying marks in JEE Mains 2026 and admission is given based on All India Rank in JEE Mains exam. NTA will announce JEE Mains 2026 All India rank in April after session 2 exam results. 

JEE Advanced exam conducted by IIT Madras. Candidates can appear in JEE Advanced two consecutive times. JEE Advanced is held in CBT mode and there are 2 papers in all. Each paper has 3 sections: Physics, Chemistry and Maths. Candidates have to attempt both papers 1 and 2 to be eligible for admission to the IITs. The marking scheme and the distribution of the questions in the exam change every year.

IIT Guwahati has a seat intake of 33 for a full-time Master of Design (MDes) programme of two-year duration. The institute offers 13 seats for the General category. Apart from this, IIT Guwahati has 3 seats for the EWS General category, 9 seats for OBC-NCL, 5 seats for SC, and 3 seats for ST. Additionally, there are 30 seats in MDes Electronic Product Design.

As per unofficial sources, IIT Guwahati alumni are working in leading national and multinational companies such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Oracle, TCS, Infosys, HCL, Adobe, etc. They are majorly involved in the Engineering sector with a 35% share. The sector-wise distribution of alumni is presented in the below pie-chart:

NOTE: The sectors under the ‘Others’ category include Operations, Marketing, Sales, Media & Communication, Support, Research, Finance and Consulting.

To be considered for admission to UCEED 2025 participating institutes, the candidates need to meet the following conditions simultaneously: 

1. Age limit - The candidate needs to be born on or after October 1, 1999. For candidates belonging to SC, ST, and PwD categories, there is a relaxation of five years. 
2. UCEED 2025 qualification - The candidate must have qualified in the UCEED 2025 entrance exam and must have been allocated a merit rank.
3. Qualifying examination - The candidate must have passed all the subjects in the qualifying exam (10+2 or equivalent) in 2023 or should be appearing in the qualifying exam for the first time in 2025.