To overcome the dearth of good PhD scholars, the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar becomes first such institute in the country to offer a PhD to a Bachelor of Technology graduate.
Confirming the same, Dr Sudhir Jain, Director, IITGN said, “We did not get good PhD students as after BTech, most would either get lured to join big companies and the rest would join MTech. Of those who join M Tech, the ratio of them opting for further studies becomes minimal due to various reasons. This was the main reason we thought to tap good BTech students for our PhD programme before they sit for an interview and give them option to explore the world of PhD with us.”
BTech students from NITs and other select colleges among the top five rank holders in the department at the end of their third year will be able to apply for the PhD at IIT-Gandhinagar.
We recognize the importance of creating opportunities for aspiring young learners to gain entry into the exciting arena of scientific research. The PhD fellowship is conceived to meet this need. The full-time residential fellowship is designed to enable budding engineers to gain early entry into the PhD programmes at IITGN. The aim is to put promising young undergraduate students from diverse disciplines on the fast-track mode of cutting edge technological research in order to prepare them to participate in the process of nation building, professor Jain added.
When asked professor Jain about students missing out of MTech syllabus, he said that IITs individually decide what to offer in a MTech course. So we will include important topics in PhD itself and train our students that way. Since PhD also requires GATE exam, those who give GATE and come to us will get more stipend.”
Requirements:
* BTech students will require CPI/CGPA of not less than 6.0 at end of third year
* No GATE qualification requirement
* For fellowship, with GATE score, Rs 35,000 per month will be given, without GATE score, Rs 25000 per month
