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DTU Ph.D. Courses & Fee 2025: Admission, Eligibility & Seats
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DTU Ph.D. Eligibility & Highlights 2025
DTU offers a PhD in various specialisations related to Engineering and Management across numerous modes, which are as follows: 1. Full time (with or without scholarship/self-financed or sponsored ) 2. Part-time (candidate working in an organisation that has an MOU with DTU or Faculty, or Scientist from Government undertakings and R&D labs) 3. Students who are project staff and working at a project sponsored by DST/ UGC/ Government agency 4. Academic permanent staff member of DTU 5. Those with a master's degree in the relevant discipline with a 55% aggregate are the minimum eligibility criteria for admission. In exceptional cases, considering BTech candidates, the qualifying marks must be 75% aggregate with a record of sound, valuable research activities. DTU conducts a screening test and an Interview to offer admission to PhD. However, those with UGC NET / CSIR NET / DBT/ JRF qualified candidates are exempted from the PhD screening test. Such candidates have to appear in the interview round only. The eligibility and more details of the course are given below:
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DTU's BTech in Civil Engineering course has been rated 4.2/5 by 95 Shiksha verified students, while the same course at IIT Delhi has been rated 4.6/5 by 41 students at Shiksha. Also, as per the NIRF 2024 Rankings, Delhi Technological University has been ranked 27 under the 'Engineering' category, however, there are many IITs that are ranked before DTU in the same category. But, despite that, DTU competes against the top-notch NITs and second-phase IITs in streams such as Computer Science Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Mathematics and Computing. Hence, it is safe to say that DTU is as good as a second-phase IIT or an NIT.
Delhi Technological University DTU has received 30th position under the engineering category & 62nd under the Overall category by NIRF 2025. Colleges like IIT Ropar stands below this university. Hence, DTU is better than many new IITs but still stands below the top IITs such as IIT Delhi, IIT Madras, and IIT Kanpur.
No, candidates cannot get admission to DTU without appearing for JEE Main as the DTU BTech counselling is done through JAC Delhi. The basic criteria for admission to BTech is appearing for JEE Mains. To get into DTU, candidates must score decent marks or at least around 220 or above marks in JEE Mains. The only way to get into DTU without appearing for JEE Main is by taking a lateral entry admission to BTech second year. In order to do this, candidates must complete a Polytechnic course of two years and then appear for an entrance exam (not JEE Main but this exam will give you entry in DTU's second year.
The highest package and average package offered to MTech CSE students in 2025 stood at INR 41.7 LPA and INR 15.15 LPA, respectively. 20 MTech CSE offers were made in 2025. The placement highlights of 2024 and previous 2 years are mentioned below:
| Particulars | CSE Placement Statistics (2022) | CSE Placement Statistics (2023) | CSE Placement Statistics (2024) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Students registered | 24 | 20 | 25 |
| Students placed | 19 | 20 | NA |
| Total offers | 28 | 20 | 19 |
| Highest package | INR 40 LPA | INR 36 LPA | INR 29 LPA |
| Average package | INR 18.30 LPA | INR 20.70 LPA | INR 13.58 LPA |
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For admission to most of the undergraduate and postgraduate courses offered at Delhi Technological University, students need to score 50% to 60% minimum total in their last qualifying degree or course to be eligible. A course-wise list of eligibility criteria for DTU admission is mentioned in the table:
| Course Name | Eligibility Criteria |
|---|---|
| BTech | Class 12 with 60% |
| BDes | A pass in Class 12 |
| BBA | Class 12 with 50% |
| MSc
| Class 12 with 50% in Economics |
| MTech | Relevant UG degree with at least 60% |
| MDes | 4-year UG with 55% |
| E-MBA | Any UG degree with 60% |
| E-MBA | UG degree with 50% |
Relevant BSc/ UG degree with 55% | |
| E-MBA | UG degree with 50% |
| PhD | Relevant PG degree with 55% |
No, DTU does not conduct any entrance exam of its own for admission to any of the UG, PG or doctoral-level courses. Admission for the flagship BTech programme is based on JEE Main scores and the entire process of counselling are conducted by JAC Delhi. Further, DTU admission to all the remaining courses is mostly based on national/ university-level entrance exams, such as UCEED, GATE, CAT, MAT and CMAT, among others. However, there are a few MBA specialised courses and BBA, admission to which is offered based on the past qualifying exam (UG level) followed by an interview round.
Yes, Delhi Technological University accepts only Class 12 scores for admission to the BBA and BA (Economics) courses offered by it at the undergraduate levels. While admission to all the other UG and PG courses is subject to national-level entrance exams and couselling process, there courses offer direct merit-based admission to the students. Check DTU eligibility criteria for all UG courses in the below table:
| Course Name | Eligibility & Selection Criteria |
|---|---|
| BTech | Eligibility: Class 12 with 60% |
| BDes | Eligibility: A pass in Class 12 Selection Criteria: UCEED |
| BBA | Eligibility: Class 12 with 50% Selection Criteria: Merit list is drawn based on scores obtained in the best of 4 subjects in Class 12 |
| BA (Hons) in Economics | Eligibility: Class 12 with 50% Selection Criteria: Merit list is drawn based on scores obtained in the best of 4 subjects in Class 12 |
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Course and branch-wise first and last round cutoff details for DTU 2025 are given below:
| Course | Round 1 (Closing Rank) | Last Round (Closing Rank) |
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| B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering | 2285 | 6200 |
| B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering (Data Science and Analytics) | 3026 | 6268 |
| B.Tech. in Information Technology | 3847 | 7360 |
| B.Tech. in Information Technology (Cyber Security) | 4542 | 7932 |
| B.Tech. in Software Engineering | 4705 | 8165 |
| B.Tech. in Mathematics and Computing Engineering | 4411 | 8348 |
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| B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering | 7122 | 11227 |
| B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering | 9382 | 16022 |
| B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering (Automotive Engineering) | 9154 | 14546 |
| B.Tech. in Engineering Physics | 8595 | 14482 |
| B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering | 10350 | 16697 |
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| B.Tech. in Environmental Engineering | 12570 | 19949 |
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