IIT Dharwad M.S: Fees 2025, Course Duration, Dates, Eligibility

In the recent NIRF ranking 2020, IIT Dhanbad, IIT Jodhpur, IIST Thiruvananthapuram stands at 15th, 50th, 33rd respectively. IIT Dharwad was recently established, and it's making all efforts to be ranked among the best. Here are a few factors that you should consider while comparing these institutes.

Admission:

• For admission into IITs, students need to qualify for the JEE mains exam and get a good score in the JEE Advanced exam. The eligibility criteria are 10+2 with 75% aggregate in the science stream.

• For admission into IIST Thiruvananthapuram, eligibility is 10+2 with a minimum of 75% aggregate in the science stream and a valid JEE Mains score.

• The total seat intake for ECE at IIST is 60. 50 seats at IIT Dharwad for EE and 120 seats for EIE at IIT Dhanbad. 80 seats at IIT Jodhpur for ME.

The required cutoff for the institutes is as follows.

Faculty:

• A total of 99 faculty members are present at IIT Jodhpur and all are Ph.D. holders.

• IIT Dhanbad has a highly qualified and strong faculty network of 332 members and 315 of them are Ph.D. holders.

• IIST has 54 Associate professors, 12 Professors, 26 Assistant professors, and 4 Adjunct Professors.

• IIT Dharwad also has highly qualified professors.

Course fees:

The course fees at the institutes are as follows.

Placement:

• In the recent placement drive, IIT Dhanbad placed 61.90% of its students from the EIE branch. The highest package offered was INR 13 LPA. Top recruiters were Google, Goldman Sachs, Walmart.

• In the year 2020, a total of 83% of students were placed from the Mechanical branch at IIT Jodhpur. Top recruiters were TCS, Maruti Suzuki, Honda, Infosys.

• The top recruiter at IIST is ISRO that hired 108 Btech students. 27% of students were placed from the ECE branch.

• IIT Dharwad saw its first batch of placement, and Microsoft offered the highest internship package of INR 80000 per month.

Scholarships are offered by all the colleges to help the students during their course of study. As for which institute will be better you should decide that according to your course of choice.

Mechanical Engineering studies are good at IIT Dharwad. The academics of IIT Dharwad has always been great, experienced faculty members from IIT Bombay taught courses to its students since the beginning of this college

As for Mechanical specifically-

1. The Mechanical faculty consists of professors from IIT Bombay, and other highly skilled academicians. 
2. The curriculum is the same as that of IIT Bombay Mechanical. 
3. The department has separate labs for different courses. The lab equipment is either new or from the IIT Bombay labs. 
4. Prof. Prabhu of the Mechanical Department is a highly respected faculty member at IIT Bombay. He is very hardworking and learned. He has over 2000 citations.
5. The peers of Mechanical are very friendly and cooperative. 

IIT Dharwad Mechanical will give you ample exposure and good academics, despite being a new institution.