Colleges in Kharagpur

There are five halls of residence (hostels) allocated for girls at IIT Kharagpur campus. Here is the list of girls hostel at IIT Kharagpur:

1. Mother Teresa Hall of Residence
2. Sister Nivedita Hall of Residence
3. Rani Laxmibai Hall of Residence
4. SAM Hall of Residence
5. Sarojini Naidu – Indira Gandhi Hall of Residence

Girl's hostels are located near the academic centre, playground, police station and auditorium.

Hostels at IIT Kharagpur are furnished with beds, tables, chairs, high-speed LAN ports, fans, lights and adequate electricity ports. The quantity of the aforementioned things may vary depending upon the occupancy of the room whether it’s single room, double sharing or triple occupancy sharing.

Also, some halls (hostel is referred to as hall of residence at IIT Kharagpur and hostellers as boarders) have washing machine facilities and some don’t. Laundry service is available at a reasonable price.

IIT Kharagpur has one of the largest college campuses. It is even bigger than the IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi and IIT Kanpur campuses combined. The IIT Kharagpur campus is spread across 8.5 km (2100 acres). IIT Kharagpur is located at a distance of 120 km from Kolkata. There are 21 halls or residences (hostels) at IIT Kharagpur out of which 16 are for boys and 5 are allocated for girls and approximately 10,000 students live on the campus.

The specialisation-wise seat intake for IIT Kharagpur BTech course for General, ST and SC students is as follows:

Candidates aspiring for VGSOM PG Diploma in Business Analytics can check out the  CAT Percentile is requiredfor the admissions in the table below:

VGSOM admission to Management courses including MBA is based of valid CAT scores. For VGSOM MBA admission, students must meet both the overall CAT cut off percentile and the sectional cut off. Tabulated below is CAT percentile for VGSOM cutoff for General category students for last three years:

The cutoff trend for B.Tech at IIT Kharagpur - Indian Institute of Technology has been decreasing in the recent years. In 2022, the closing rank for B.Tech. under general category for all India quota was 303. In 2023, it decreased to 279. Likewise, the cut off ranks have changed from 138 to 160 for OBC, 85 to 92 for SC, 39 to 32 for ST, 52 to 54 for EWS, 17 to 30 for PWD. This trend is likely to continue in the coming years, as the demand for engineering education in India continues to grow. Similar cut off trend can be seen for female candidates under all categories however the ranks are slightly different.

Opening and Closing rank depends on the category and quota of candidates. For general category under All India, opening rank was 261 and closing rank was 279. Cut off are differant when it comes to other categories or female candidates and even domicile of home state. Admission to B.Tech. (Hons.) in Computer Science and Engineering in IIT Kharagpur - Indian Institute of Technology is based on the scores obtained in the entrance exam JEE Advanced. Applicants are advised to confirm what category are they applying while checking for cut offs.

The first provisional merit list of Kharagpur College is expected to be released on Sep 16. Rest all the merits are scheduled in Sep 2023. These merits will be issued for admission to the PG programme. Check out the table below for more events of Kharagpur University admission: