Colleges in Guwahati

IIIT Guwahati and IIIT Sonepat are one of the newer IIITs and were founded in 2013 & 2014, respectively and are actively strengthening their foundations.

Comparing the two institutions, the IIIT Guwahati was ranked in the 201-300 band of the Engineering category of NIRF 2025 while IIIT Sonepat is unranked.

In terms of placements the median package was INR 12 LPA for IIIT Guwahati while it was INR 8 LPA for IIIT Sonepat in 2025.

Though the cutoff is less competitive for the IIIT Sonepat BTech CSE with the JEE Main cutoff having last round ranks of 41492 while for IIIT Guwahati was 28255.

In short, though the IIIT Sonepat is less competitive, IIIT Guwahati is a better choice overall for most students. 

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.

The NLU Shimla CLAT cutoff 2026 was released for both the SC All India and the SC Home State quota. The cutoff was out for admission to the BBA LLB (Hons), LLM and BA LLB (Hons) courses. 

For the ST AI category, the overall cutoff ranged from 4544 in the first round to 13896 in the last round. As per this range, the toughest course for enrollment was the LLM course. This course cutoff ranged from 4544 to 5580. 

Among the ST HS quota students, the overall cutoff varied from 20008 to 36836, with BA LLB (Hons) course being the more competitive. Students can refer to the table below for more details about the closing rank range for each course. 

The NLU Shimla CLAT cutoff 2026 was released for both the SC All India and the SC Home State quota. The cutoff was out for admission to the BBA LLB (Hons), LLM and BA LLB (Hons) courses. 

For the ST AI category, the overall cutoff ranged from 4544 in the first round to 13896 in the last round. As per this range, the toughest course for enrollment was the LLM course. This course cutoff ranged from 4544 to 5580. 

Among the ST HS quota students, the overall cutoff varied from 20008 to 36836, with BA LLB (Hons) course being the more competitive. Students can refer to the table below for more details about the closing rank range for each course.