IIT Indore holds online orientation for 329 new PhD, PG students

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indore, held an orientation programme for newly inducted postgraduate and PhD students in online mode.  

As many as 329 new PhD and PG students have registered with IIT Indore for the 2021-22 academic year. IIT Indore has added five new programmes this year. These are MS programme in humanities and social sciences and space science and engineering, MTech programme in space engineering and electric vehicle technology and PhD in newly established Centre for Advanced Electronics. 

Of the 329 newly inducted students, 123 have registered in PhD, 102 in MSc, 68 in MTech, 32 in MS (research), one student each in MS (research), one student each in MS (research) + PhD and MTech + PhD and two students in MSc + PhD dual degree programmes. 

IIT Indore officiating director Prof Neelesh Kumar Jain said “The institute is constrained to organise an online orientation owing to the pandemic situation but will leave no stone unturned to ensure that the students do not suffer any academic loss and the academic and research activities and make the most of the productive research environment of the institute. Knowledge is more important information hence it is vital that the students focus more on gaining knowledge.”  

“I urge the students to focus on their performance as your potential has already been judged and that is how you have secured your seat here. IIT Indore has research-oriented teaching curriculum, hence the students should decide the learning outcome for each course and do self-evaluation,” he said.  

IIT Indore offers more than 40 courses at UG, PG and PhD level primarily in the streams of Engineering, Technology and Science. The key competency of IIT Indore is a research-driven curriculum that forms a core component of the UG and PG teaching methodologies. 

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