M. Tech. and M. Des. Programmes 2025-26

The Institute offers three Masters’ programmes based on course work: Master of Technology (M. Tech.), Master of Design (M. Des.) and Master of Management (M. Mgt.). Details of the Master of Management (M. Mgt.) program are here. The Institute admits about 450 students every year for its course programmes. We also admit about 50 sponsored candidates from various government agencies and PSUs, and details for this are given here. We also offer an M.Tech.(Online) program for working professionals from companies that have an agreement with IISc, and details are given here.

The Minimum Eligibility requirements, Selection Procedure and Instructions for Online Application applicable to all M. Tech. and M. Des. disciplines are given at the bottom of this page.

The departments and centres participating in the August 2025 Admissions are listed below. The disciplines offered, and the approved intake, minimum qualifications, selection process and areas of study for a discipline, are given in the tables below. Candidates can apply to a maximum of 3 disciplines from the M. Tech. and M. Des. programs.

Some disciplines decide the admissions based solely on standard qualifying exam and Career Analysis Marks (CAM) in prior schooling and/or degrees. Other disciplines also require an interview and/or a written aptitude test on dates listed here. These are described below.

Candidates with qualifications in B.E. / B. Tech. or an equivalent degree should have qualified and hold valid GATE score card as on 1st August 2025.

For the M. Des. Programme – Candidates with qualifications in BE/ B. Tech./ B. Des./ B. Arch. degrees, should have qualified in GATE/CEED/CAT, and hold a valid scorecard as on 1st August 2025.

You should apply through the Online Admissions Applications Portal. Instructions for the portal are provided here.

We will use the Common Offer Acceptance Portal (COAP) to make the offer for admission into the M.Tech. Programmes and M.Des. Programme through GATE qualification.

Important deadlines, click here to view

Fee structure, click here to view.

M. Des. Programme

 

 

Discipline: Product Design, Development and Management

Department/Centre/Unit: Design and Manufacturing

Intake: 18

Qualification with required GATE paper or CEED (in brackets): B.E / B.Tech / B.Des (all 4 years) / B. Arch (5 years) or equivalent degree in any discipline with a valid GATE/ CAT or CEED score.

Selection Process: Selection is based on 70% weightage on CEED/GATE/CAT score + 30% performance in interview.

Areas of study: Product Design and Engineering.

 

 

 

 

M. Tech. Programmes

 

 

 

 

Discipline: Aerospace Engineering (AE)

Department/Centre/Unit: Aerospace Engineering

Intake: 19

Qualification with required GATE paper (in brackets): B.E. / B. Tech. or equivalent engineering degree (with a GATE Paper in AE; CE; CH; EC; EE; ME, XE).

Selection Process: Selection is based on 100% GATE score

Areas of study: Aerodynamics; Propulsion; Structures; Control, Navigation, Guidance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eligibility and Selection Procedure

 

 

 

 

 

The following categories of candidates are eligible to apply for admission to course programmes.

(a) Bachelor’s degree holders in Engineering/Technology or its equivalent.

(b) B.E./B.Tech. equivalent examinations of Professional Societies, recognized by MoE/UPSC/AICTE (e.g AMIE by Institutions of Engineers).Note: Candidates enrolled upto 31.05.2013 with professional societies(e.g AMIE) recognized by MoE are only eligible to apply.

(c) Bachelor’s degree holders in Architecture/Design (for M.Des. programme only)

(d) Master’s degree holders in Science disciplines including Physics with Electronics/ Instrumentation/Geology/ Computer Application/ Physical Sciences/ Mathematical Sciences as applicable to individual department offering M. Tech. programmes.

All the candidates should qualify in the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE 2025 /2024 / 2023) for M. Tech., or in the Common Entrance Examination for Design CEED (2025) or CAT 2024 or GATE (2025 /2024 / 2023) for M. Des., and GATE 2025/2024/2023 or CAT 2024/GMAT for M.Mgt., and must possess a valid scorecard as on 1st August 2025.

NOTE: The results for some of the recent National Entrance Tests, such as GATE 2025, may not be available at the time of submitting the IISc admissions application. You must enter the available details of these exams, such as your roll number, paper, etc., in the application, but you may leave the score/rank/results blank. You will have the option to update just your national entrance results in the application from the main “Application Status” page. You must make this update within 3 days of the results being declared.

Additional notes:

(a) The minimum requirement for admission to course programmes – M. Tech. / M. Des. is a SECOND CLASS and for M.Mgt a FIRST CLASS (as declared by the University) or an equivalent grade in the qualifying examination as indicated against each department

(b) Wherever Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Technology is prescribed, the minimum eligible qualification for admission, the duration of the such degree courses should be atleast 4 years and wherever Master’s degree is prescribed the minimum duration should be of 2 years, in addition to the 10+2 (i.e. 10th Std and 12th Std). However the candidates who have studied diploma and got exemption of 1 year in the Engineering/Technology are also eligible to apply.

(c) The minimum requirement of a SECOND CLASS in the qualifying examination is relaxed to PASS CLASS for SC/ST candidates.

(d) Those in the final year of their qualifying examination and awaiting results are also eligible to apply. However, they should have completed all the requirements for the award of their qualifying degree, including all examinations, dissertation projects, viva-voce, etc., by the time of joining on 1st August 2025.

(e) Candidates who join initially for the M. Tech. programmes may be permitted to transfer to the Ph D programme, subject to academic assessments.