Fri. Mar 29th, 2024

New Delhi : Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-Guwahati) announced that it has currently admitted 153 female students in the BTech programme for the 2019-2020 academic session.

The institute has exceed the target of enrolling at least 17% female students, set by the JEE Apex Board Committee by admitting 18.46% female students under the graduate engineering programmes.

This year a total of 829 students were admitted to IIT Guwahati in B.Tech courses out of which 153 are girls and 676 are boys as compared to 112 girls and 608 boys last year.

A total of 40 students have been admitted this year in the B.Des course, of which 16 are girls and 24 are boys.

It is Interested to note that 19 girls were admitted into Mechanical Engineering, a discipline which has been traditionally considered to be male-dominant. This is followed by Computer Science Engineering (18) and Civil Engineering (17).

IIT Guwahati has conducted several orientation programmes this year for the new students. These included a General Orientation with the Director, Deans, IIT Guwahati. Academic Orientation with Dean/Associate Dean, Academic Section, Department’s Orientation by respective Head’s & Faculties of Departments, an Orientation session on Campus life, Hostel and other amenities by Dean of Students Affairs and an Orientation by SC/ST Cell of the institute.

New courses in IIT- Guwahati :

IIT Guwahati has introduced four new programmes including-

  • M. Tech in Data Science,
  • Three International programs with Gifu University, Japan – International Joint Master’s Degree Program in Food Science and Technology, International Joint PhD Program in Food Science and Technology and International Joint PhD Program in Integrated Mechanical Engineering.

Talking about the new programmes introduced in this session, Dr. T. G. Sitharam, Director, said, “These programmes will help students to enhance research design thinking and a global mind-set in the enrolled courses and are also expected to lead the international community in successfully achieving the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015”.

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