IIITB Admissions 2021: Fee waiver, courses, admission process
The Indian Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIITB) will offer 100 per cent tuition fee waiver to JEE Main top rank students. The Bengaluru-based institute has been offering fee waiver to bright students.
The International Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) are popular for their engineering courses such as BTech, MTech and dual degree (BTech and MTech) programmes. Apart from that, IIITs also offer courses such as Bachelor of Design (BDes), Master of Design (MDes), MBA (Masters of Business Administration) and PhD (Doctorate of Philosophy). Out of the total 26 IIITs in India, five are funded and managed by the Ministry of Education, formerly known as the Ministry of Human Resource Development, while the rest have been set up on the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model.
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100% tuition fee waiver for JEE Main top rankers
Prof Madhav while talking about financial benefits the institute offers to students informed, “Top rankers of JEE Main can have 100 per cent of their tuition fee waived through the IIITB’s Utkarsha scholarship. To avail of the scholarship, the student should have an all India rank between 1-999 and the scholarship will be given at most to five students.”
Fee structure of integrated MTech at IIIT Bangalore
Fee structure at all IIITs is more or less the same, except for the five that are managed by the Ministry of Education.
Prof Madhav said, “For the academic year 2020-21, the fee structure for the first two years is around Rs 1.6 lakh per semester, for the third and fourth year, it is around Rs 1.92 lakh per semester and for the last year, it is around Rs 2.30 lakh. So, the overall fee structure for the five-year iMTech programme is roughly around Rs 18 lakh.”
IIITs admission
To get admission to the IIITs across India, candidates have to qualify the JEE Main. Students will also need to score marks equal to or more than JEE Main cutoffs to gain entry to IIITs. Candidates must know JEE Main cutoff for top IIITs to know which college they will get admission based on their ranks. Factors such as difficulty level of JEE Main, total number of applicants, total number of seats available, etc, are taken into consideration while preparing the IIIT JEE Main cutoff for top engineering institutes.
Prof Madhav Rao said, “Candidates who want to get admission to IIITs need to go through a common admission process. To get into an IIIT, one has to clear IIT JEE Main exam, followed by JEE Advanced, but IIIT Bangalore, IIIT Delhi and IIIT Hyderabad have different kind of admission system. At IIIT Bangalore, we consider only JEE Main rank, JEE Advanced is not required and the admission is totally merit-based.”
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Courses offered at IIIT Bangalore
On being asked about the number of courses offered at IIIT Bangalore, Prof Madhav said, “We offer different degree programmes. One is five-year integrated MTech (iMtech) degree programme, which comprises BTech and MTech. The others are two-year MTech programme; MS by Research programme; PhD progarmme and two-year MSc Digital Society programme, which caters to digital technologies and societal components." He said, “We also offer two branches within iMTech and MTech programmes. Both iMTech and MTech programmes have two branches – Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE)."
| Course | Duration |
|---|---|
| Integrated MTech | 5 years |
| MTech CSE | 2 years |
| MTech ECE | 2 years |
| Master of Science By Research/Doctor of Philosophy | - |
| Master of Science (Digital Society) | 2 years |
IIITB MTech seat availability
Prof Madhav said that for the iMTech programme, the institute offers 90 seats for Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and 30 seats for Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) and for MTech, it offers 150 seats for CSE, 30 for ECE.
IIITB: Student Take
Ajay and Swasti said, “First of all after clearing the JEE Main, the student should should go through the institute’s website. After that, take a look at the JEE Main cutoffs for top IIITs, explore streams and then decide on the college. Apart from that, look at faculty pages and other statistics before applying to any IIIT.”
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