IISc Bangalore Placements 2025: Highest Package, Average Package, Top Companies

The highest package at IISc Bangalore placements has been fluctuating through the years. Check the table below to know more:

Yes, IISc Bangalore offers great internship opportunities to its students. Check out the table below to know the highest stipend and average stipend provided to students in 2024:

The pre-registration generally commences from July or August onwards. Thereafter the registration process starts in the OCCaP portal. The institute announces the job opening on the portal in September. The IISc placement schedule is tabulated below for reference:

According to unofficial online sources, the majority of IISc Bangalore alumni are placed in the Engineering sector with a 35% share. The other top sectors that involve the majority of alumni are Research and Education.

The placement packages recorded during IISc Bangalore placements are given in the table below:

 IISc Bangalore has not released its full placement report for 2025. Check out the table below to know about the placement highlights released:

No, aspirants do require GATE for admission in MTech programme of IISc Bangalore. The weightage miht differ with MTech specialisation. For MTech Aerospace, Computer Science, Civil, etc. 100% weightage is given to GATE. For Bioengineering, Electrical, Electronics, etc. 70% GATE and 50% interview round. 70% weightage is given to GATE and 30% to written test conducted by the institute for MTech in AI, Chemical, Computational & Data Sciences.

IISC Bangalore accepts JEE Main score for BTech admission 2024. The university has different admission criteria as per course requirement. IISc Bangalore offers a four-year BTech in Mathematics and Computing divided into eight semesters. The course is divided into two parts, i.e., Core Courses and Soft Core Courses.

Several foundations have collaborated with IISc Bangalore to provide financial support to needy students in the form of scholarships for BSc as follows:

The course fee for BTech at IISC Bangalore is available at the official website. Total tuition fee for BTech is INR 8 lakh. Annual tuition fee can be paid in three installments.

Aspirants are allotted seat in BTech course of IISc Bangalore via JoSAA Counselling based on their JEE Main scores. Candidates do not have to apply on the institute's website for BTech. There is no institute-level process for BTech admission.

IISc Bangalore offers admission to candidates based on entrance exam scores. The institute accepts JEE Main, JEE Advanced, GATE, IIT JAM, etc. for admission. Check below course-wise accepted entrance exam at IISc Bangalore:

Candidates must meet the minimum eligibility set by the institute for BSc (Research) course of IISc Bangalore. Aspirants need pass entrance exams by the institute. Check below the admission criteria:

• A pass in Class 12 or equivalent with Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics 
• The selection is based on JEE Advanced or IISER Aptitude Test scores

Total BSc seat intake at IISc Bangalore is 125. Total seats are distributed among the following categories:

The university has released the seats available at IISC Bangalore for BTech programme. As per stats, a total of 52 seats are reserved for BTech at IISC Bangalore. For more clarity, students can check the table presented below:

The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (IISc) is ranked 1st and 2nd under the Universities & Overall categories, respectively of NIRF 2025. As such it is clearly a great institute with reviews mentioning pros such as:

• Infrastructure: The institute features advanced classrooms which resemble seminar halls and the campus is equipped with high-speed Wi-Fi (100 MB/PS). While Labs and also advanced whereas the  JRD Tata library is large and comprehensive. (Soumyadip Bank- M.Sc. in Chemical Sciences - Batch of 2026)
• Placements: Though the institute focuses more on research and advancement to PhD than placements as such though even new courses such as MSc Chemical Sciences had an average package of INR 8 LPA while internships included offers from various educational institutes such as IITs and IISERs (Soumyadip Bank- M.Sc. in Chemical Sciences - Batch of 2026)
• Faculty: The faculty at IISc Bangalore are very approachable with the style of teaching being the Socratic style of discussion while the curriculum is equipped with rigour to build the readiness of students to pursue a career in Science. (Aaitijhya Goswami - B.Sc. (Research) in Physics - Batch of 2029)

The above information is taken from verified Shiksha Reviews

If you belong to the General AI category, the JEE Advanced cutoff rank required for B.Tech. in Mathematics and Computing was 856. Similarly, for B.Sc. (Research) specialisations, the cutoff rank required for admission in 2025 was 2263. 

IISc Bangalore has been ranked 1 and 2 by the NIRF 2023 Rankings under the 'University' and 'Overall' categories, respectively. The NIRF ranking is better than most of the IITs. Also during IISc placements 2023, the highest package offered was INR 85 LPA and the average package offered was INR 28 LPA. Moreover, IISc Bangalore is the only institute that considers the scores of JEE Advanced for admission to its B.Tech course except all the IITs.

The minimum GATE score to get an admission into IISC Bangalore course-wise is tabulated below: 

Yes, for admission to some of the programmes IISc Bangalore is way tougher than IITs. Also, the quality of education, research & development quality at IISc Bangalore has very high standards. IISc Bangalore has produced some of the most eminent personalities and has a very high registered patent record.

For getting admission to any of the courses offered at IISc Bangalore, candidates are required to take the entrance exams specified by the university and candidates having valid scores/ percentile will be selected for further admission process.