IISc’s Convocation to be held on 15 July 2024

12 July 2024 

The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) will host this year’s convocation on Monday, 15 July 2024, from 11:00 am at the JN Tata auditorium to confer degrees upon students who are graduating this year.

Viswanathan Anand, five-time world champion in chess and Padma Vibhushan awardee will be the Chief Guest of the event. The Guest of Honour will be Senapathy ‘Kris’ Gopalakrishnan, Chair, IISc Council.

A total of 1,136 degrees will be awarded during the ceremony, with 465 Research degrees, 571 Master’s course degrees and 100 undergraduate degrees conferred on students. Gold medals will also be awarded to 57 students for academic excellence.

IISc currently offers PhD and Integrated PhD programmes, several Master’s programmes (MTech, MTech (Res), MDes, MMgmt), a four-year Bachelor of Science (Research) programme and a BTech in Mathematics and Computing.