IIT Gandhinagar: Admission 2025, Fees, Courses, Cutoff, Ranking, Placement

Honestly speaking, IIT Gandhinagar does not deserve to be in the IIT family nor does it deserve the IIT tag. I am not saying the education and placement opportunities here are pathetic but they are still far from actual IIT standards. or even top NITs and BITS. 

It’s due to the Marketing tactics of the director that the institute gains such high rankings by NIRF and other ranking bodies. The internships and placement scenario is pathetic owing to the deteriorating student strength and efforts on the part of the university. 

I will suggest everyone against joining this institute and ruining their career.

I completed my B.Tech ECE. Due to Covid-19, I got a direct interview call from IIT Gandhinagar for M.Tech ECE. I got interviewed on Google Meet.

Out of the four choices given to me, I opted for microelectronics and VLSI as my first preference. 20 minutes prior to the interview, I received a call from the technical supervisor asking me to be prepared. There were 3 panelists for my interview and all of them belonged to the Electrical Engineering Department of IIT Gandhinagar.

The interview started with a basic introduction and I was asked for my favorite subjects. After this, I was asked questions to assess my knowledge of the field. I am listing down the questions which the panel asked me-

• What is the propagation delay in logic ckt, why does delay occur?
• Explain NOR and NAND gate.
• Explain BW of an amplifier.
• Explain BW of the single pole system.
• What are the conditions for which the gain BW product is constant?
• Differentiate ideal and real op amp.
• Draw a T C curve of both.
• O/p for open loop op amp.
• What is CMRR, and what is common mode gain?
• What is the BW of (real) op amps?
• Does Amplification violate energy conservation law?

The IIT Gandhinagar staff is quite helpful and supportive. I received 3 calls every 15 minutes to alert me before the interview. My interview went well and I got selected for the M.Tech program.

I fail to understand what you mean by ‘behaving more like a private college’ and from where such a question stems from. If your comparison of IIT Gandhinagar with private colleges is to point out its features uncommon to other IITs then maybe yes, IIT Ganghinagar is certainly a bit different from the usual IIT standards. 

Consider the following points to understand this further:

• It is one of the fastest growing second generation IITs, that were established in 2008.
• The institute is well known for its highly flexible branch change policies, curriculum, cutting-edge research, and top-notch placement opportunities.
• The flexibility in the curriculum can be seen through the wide range of options of dual majors, minors, honors, course range, and short courses.
• It has ties with several foreign universities and thus provides great study-abroad opportunities to UG, PG, and Ph.D. students in the form of semesters overseas, research internships, summer programs, etc.
• Another distinctive feature includes harmony between different disciplines with 7 Interdisciplinary Research Centres. All the departments have common research facilities and there isn't any kind of monopoly.  
• The institute highly focuses on Project-oriented-learning that gives the students a practical approach to theoretical concepts.
• IIT Gandhinagar has some highly renowned faculty and the majority of the professors are PhD holders from top foreign institutes like Cambridge, Harvard, MIT, etc.
• Another unique initiative is the Non-degree Program wherein students from non-IIT institutes take part-time/full-time courses and get to spend an entire semester at IIT Gandhinagar. 

The list is not exhaustive and IIT Gandhinagar indeed is a unique IIT that has made its mark alone without the help of the IIT tag. It focuses on both the professional as well as personal development of its students, faculty, and staff. If you call such fast-paced growth ‘behaving like private colleges’ then it is what it is.