10% of IIT-JEE rank holders in Google: StudyGoogle is followed by Microsoft and Facebook, where 4% and 3% of the rank holders work, respectively, according to a report by staffing fir...
PhD placements at IITs looking upBut many companies give PhD recruitments a miss because of lack of specialised roles: IITs
IIT Hyderabad receives 213 placement offersAmong first-time recruiters that came for Phase I Placements include Softbank, Mercari, Toyota Research, TSMC (Taiwan semicondcutors), Yoko...
1,200 offers at the end of phase-I placement at IIT KharagpurThis year saw a new trend with PSUs started visiting the campus during the month of November, which is much before the beginning of actual ...
IIT Kharagpur to ensure higher number of PHDs in future"They will work on their own in the lab, conceive ideas and work on it," the director, who was accompanied by other faculty members at the ...
To fill IIT faculty gaps, PhD entry for BTechs?A ministry official said the larger idea is to solve the problem of faculty crunch in IITs. He said it is ironical that despite around 2,00...
2,515 students receive degrees from IIT-Bombay; PhDs at record highA total of 101 PhDs were awarded during the interim convocation held in March, making it the highest number of PhDs being awarded in the hi...
IIT-B students take average of 6 years to complete PhDsResearchers take an average of six years to complete their PhDs at IIT-Bombay, according to data from 1990 onwards, compiled by the institu...
IIT Kharagpur goes internationalThe IIT is also adding an international component to its courses by offering micro specialisations with a foreign collaborator.
IITs undergoing silent revolution to create robust technical research ecosystem and governanceA silent revolution is underway to convert IITs from mere institutions of learning to also institutions of research.
India far behind US in number of computer science PhDs: MicrosoftThe number of Phd graduates in computer science was very small compared to the number of students graduating with bachelors and masters deg...
Global companies hiring PhDs for captive centres in India: ExpertsGlobal MNCs are increasingly hiring candidates with PhDs for their captive operations in India, experts have said.
- IIT panel firm on need for fee hike
In January, the committee had suggested a five-fold hike in tuition fees.
- Sibal rejects proposal for four-fold hike in IIT fees
The proposed four-fold fee hike for undergraduate programmes at the IITs as a way to ensure financial autonomy has been turned down by the ...
- TCS to hire PhDs from IITs without interviews
In a bid to encourage research, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Sunday said that it would hire computer science PhDs from the Indian Ins...
- Engineering students not opting for higher education: Study
The number of engineering students going for advanced studies remains alarmingly low despite setting up of new institutions in the country,...
- Who will man the additional IITs?
New IITs are welcome but do we have enough trained manpower to staff them and requisite infrastructure.