IIT Hyderabad - Indian Institute of Technology

IIT Hyderabad PhD tuition fees is INR 1 lakh for the academic year 2026. This component is charged on per semester basis at INR 10,000, each for all PhD courses. For external category students, the PhD course fees at IIT Hyderabad is INR 3.5 lakh.

There is no mention of IIT Hyderabad offering PhD admissions to candidates who are yet to receive their final exam scorecard. Generally, PhD admissions are not offered to students who are still in their final year of the PG course.

Hence, candidates can assume that they can only apply for IIT Hyderabad PhD admissions after completing pot graduation.

IIT Hyderabad PhD admissions require candidates to present the following documents in both online and offline forms at the appropriate stage of the admission process:

• Class 10th and Class 12th passing certificate and marksheet
• UG course graduation degree
• PG course graduation degree
• GATE scorecard
• No objection certificate (if required)
• Sponsership letter (if required)
• ID and address proof
• Work experience certificate (if required)

No, GATE registrations have been closed for IIT Hyderabad PhD admissions to the academic year 2026. However, GATE is not a mandatory entrance exam for all PhD admissions at IIT Hyderabad.

Thus, candidates can still apply for PhD courses at IIT Hyderabad into the departments which accept candidates without a GATE score.

No, IIT Hyderabad PhD admissions are yet to be opened for the academic year 2026. 

IIT Hyderabad's website claims that the admissions to regular PhD courses is scheduled to begin from the first week of the month of March. 

Hence, candidates should go to the website of IIT Hyderabad during the month of March to check the PhD admission dates.

No, GATE is not a compulsory entrance exam for PhD admissions at IIT Hyderabad. However, every department of IIT Hyderabad has a separate eligibility and selection criteria for their offered PhD courses.

In some departments, candidates are required to appear for the GATE in order to be eligible for IIT Hyderabad PhD admissions.

No, work experience has not been listed as a mandatory requirement in the IIT Hyderabad PhD eligibility criteria. Candidates who wish to gain admission into the regular PhD course admissions are required to only clear the specific PG level course with the required minimum aggregate to be eligible.

IIT Hyderabad students claims that the M.Tech entrance has a high level of difficulty for the GATE.

However, the difficulty is also described as being lower than that of exams such as JEE Main and JEE Advanced. 

Candidates are advised to prepare the GATE syllabus thoroughly to maximize their chances of being selected at IIT Hyderabad.

There is no mention of direct admissions at IIT Hyderabad for the M.Tech courses. Hence, candidates can assume that IIT Hyderabad does not offer direct admissions into its M.Tech course.

However, it is important to note that other IIT institutes do offer direct admissions to M.Tech courses, if the candidate can fulfill the direct admission eligibility criteria. This eligibility criteria typically requires candidates to complete their BTech at the specific IIT institute with a minimum aggregate of 75% or above and no backlogs.

No, the IIT Hyderabad M.Tech admissions have been closed for the academic year 2026. Candidates were required to appear for GATE 2026 whose registrations were closed in November of 2025. 

Candidates who missed the dates of GATE 2026 are required to wait for GATE 2027 to begin for M.Tech admissions at IIT Hyderabad.