IIT Kanpur - Indian Institute of Technology Answered Questions

Hi , Admission for the B.Tech and BS program is done through JEE Advanced followed by JoSSA counselling. Candidates must have a minimum aggregate of 75% during HSC level to be eligible for admission. After the successful completion of Counselling process, candidates will have to report at IIT K for document submission, fee payment and confirmation of seat procedures.

IIT Kanpur offers a vibrant campus life. It is a safe and secure campus. Students will find the beautiful and peaceful campus a great place to live. There are many recreational facilities, hobby clubs, sports facilities and cultural societies on campus. IIT Kanpur was established in 1960 through the provisions of an act of Parliament. It is a public engineering college. It offers B.Tech degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer Science and engineering, chemical engineering, aerospace engineering, biological sciences and bioengineering, civil engineering, B.Sc. Degree in mathematics, earth sciences, economics, chemistry and scientific computing, physics, M.Sc. Degree in statistics, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and M.Sc-Ph.D dual degree in physics. It offers M.Tech degree in nuclear engineering and technology, chemical engineering, electrical engineering and bioengineering, civil engineering.

Bioengineering is a branch of engineering which needs knowledge of biology and math. So only those students are selected who have a strong foundation in math and biology as well as in chemistry. A neet student prepares only for PCB but he/she can take math as an additional subject in class 12th to learn the math as IITJEE students take bio as an additional subject to get admission in bio engineering.

100% Placements for CSE students and 20% of them already have PPOs. Moreover, average range for CSE goes from 8 to 20 LPA and hence, makes it an attraction for various students. The college offers state of art Faculty plus best Infrastructure to maintain quality education. With IIT madras, the internships provided here are very minimal for this specialisation specifically and The Placements for CSE is great but overall facilities and faculty structure is mediocre, not all students get exact CSE opportunities and hence, does not have edge over IIT Kanpur
Also, average package is lower compared with 5-9 LPA on year in year basis with near 85% Placements on campus. For placement highlight, check the following link:
http://placement.iitm.ac.in.

Here is quick comparison between two.
IIT Delhi
Average package:- 12.5 Lacs
the highest package:- 1.3 crores
Percentage placed:- 79.8%
No of offers made (2016) :- 1143
Recruiters:- Spectrum, TCE, Nevis Network, Eaton, West End Capital, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Shell, Sony Japan, World Quant, Goldman Sachs, UBS, TSMC, Tower Research, Tibco, Sybase, Sandisk, Rediff, Reliance Solar.

IIT-Kanpur is the best since inception, it has offered near 100% Placements for Aerospace students and 20% of them already have PPOs. Moreover, average range for Aerospace goes from 8 to 20 LPA and hence, makes it an attraction for various students. The college offers state of art Faculty plus best Infrastructure to maintain quality education. With IIT madras, the internships provided here are very minimal for this specialisation specifically and The Placements for Aerospace is bit mediocre since, not all students get exact core opportunities in Defense, aeronautical space, hence, does not have edge over IIT madras. Also, average package is lower compared with 5-9 LPA on year in year basis with near 85% Placements on campus. For placement highlight, check the following link:
http://placement.iitm.ac.in.

The state-of-the-art facilities (wind tunnels/supercomputing facilities) provide for easy experimenting. The professors are adept at carrying out research and teaching. This is mostly because 80% of them are IIT alumni-US Ph.D. So they have a very good understanding of how IITians should be taught. Having gone through similar experiences, they are always willing to help out. This is a huge advantage. Aerospace and automobile companies contribute to most of the core sector placements in the branch. Rolls Royce, Airbus, GE, Honeywell, TATA Motors, Mercedes Benz RnD, Mahindra, QuEST Global, Mathworks, Lennox, TVS Motors, Eaton, Atkins, and MRF are a few I can name off the top of my head (in no specific order) that came over this year. Aerospace start-ups and consultancies in the country come for placements too. CFD and FEA profiles are well in demand. Flight mechanics, controls, combustion and thermal engineering also come up occasionally. However, IIT-Kanpur is a bit different from most other IITs in terms of academics. Our grading system goes 10, 8, 6, 4, 2. In most other IITs it is something like 10, 9, 8, 7 That automatically means that if the professor doesn't think you deserve A, you get 8 in IITK and 9 in most other IITs. This worsens as the grade drops to C or D. This puts us at a disadvantage. Also, it is said (I can't verify this) that IITK was built more around research and thus they have higher standards and expectations. As a result, academics at IITK are considered tough.