IITT- The fastest growing 3G IIT for a reason.

Admission to any IIT is through the JEE examination. All the other information would be available on the institute website. The college offers 5 core engineering courses as of now, and all the BTech courses require the JEE. It also offers MS, MTech, and MPP programs along with a Ph.D. program in related fields of science and engineering.

I chose Chemicals at IITT because the chemical department here is very good at teaching and research. Having IISER Tirupati at a distance of 2 km is another huge benefit to improve the research culture of the college. The faculty-student ratio at IITT is the best among all the IITs (5:1). All the faculty members are very enthusiastic, young, open to ideas, and Ph.D. graduates either from IISc, IITs, or some university abroad. IITT follows a continuous evaluation method with 3 exams- Quiz 1, Quiz 2, and End sem. The papers are very normal and scorable too. There have been alumni (students) who have gotten into top colleges like Stanford, ETH Zurich, Princeton etc from here too. The packages here are also really impressive for a 3G IIT. This year, after the Phase 1 placement, the highest was 83 LPA, and last year it was around 70 LPA. In both years, IITT had the highest package among all the 3G and the 2G IITs (including IITH and IITI).

Many companies like Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, TCS, Benz, Daimler, Volvo, Google, etc visit for internships too. Most of the students got an internship in the core companies through the college portal itself. There were students interested in research too, who went on for internships at other top research centers like IST Austria, IISc, Max Planck Institute Germany, ICT Mumbai, CSIR India, etc. A few students also got selected for the very prestigious MITACS Globalink Program, in Canada, and the DAAD Internship in Germany last year too.

The students can start applying for placements in their last year. Many companies including top MNCs visited the campus. IITT doesn't promote the idea of advertising the college through placements, but the placements are actually jaw-dropping for a new college like this. Despite being a 3G IIT, the location plays a crucial role in the placements here. Tirupati is a prime location- 2 hours from Chennai, 3.5 hours from Bangalore, and 6-8 hours from Hyderabad. It has a lot of connections with close institutes like IITM, IISc, CMI, IITH, IIITH, IISERTPT, etc which makes it a must-visit spot for companies and their HR agents. The highest package in the year 2021 was nearly 72 lakh, which is insanely high for any new IIT and had overtaken the highest package at IITH and IIT Indore. In 2022, in phase 1 of the placement, a student from civil engineering got the highest package of nearly 83 LPA, which again was the highest among all the new IITs by a huge margin (IITH had a highest at 63.5 L)

The fee structure is standard in all the IITs. Scholarships are available to students of different categories-SC/ST, EWS, PWD, etc. Merit-based scholarships are also available to the top performers in each semester of the college.

The annual fest is called Tirutsava- a cultural techno fest run by the students here itself. The temporary library is set up with a decent selection of books. The main campus is still under construction at a strong pace, and a huge library is expected to come up soon on the North campus. The classrooms are quite well maintained and are equipped with Bose speakers, 2 Hitachi projectors, a proper blackboard, and centralized air conditioning is present everywhere. There are many social clubs run here, be they technical or purely social. Clubs for coding, robotics, automobile engineering, photography, singing, dancing, writing, debating, cooking, gymming, trekking, acting, etc are all present and are run by the students.