Information Science and Engineering
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Verified 26 Apr 2026Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), Kanpur — Fees, Placements & Admission 2026
The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), founded in 1959 with technical assistance from a consortium of nine US universities under the Kanpur Indo-American Programme (KIAP), is one of…
NAAC Institute of National ImportanceNIRF 5
₹2L
ISE · Annual tuition
Facts
CollegeAndFees fact summary
- College
- Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), Kanpur
- Short name
- IIT Kanpur
- City
- Kanpur
- Page type
- College profile
- Admission year
- 2026-27
- Main routes
- KCET, JEE Main, JEE Advanced
- Primary fee shown
- Published fee rows
- Fee label
- See fee table
- Seat status
- Verify through the official route
- Last reviewed
- 26 Apr 2026
- Source status
- Counsellor verification required
- Canonical URL
- /colleges/iit-kanpur
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Fees · 2026-27
IIT Kanpur fees
Jee · fee by branch
| Branch | Fee |
|---|---|
| Computer Science and Engineering (Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning) (CSE AIML) Annual fee · 4-yr ₹8,00,000 | ₹2,00,000 /yr |
| Computer Science and Engineering (Data Science) (CSE DS) Annual fee · 4-yr ₹8,00,000 | ₹2,00,000 /yr |
| Information Science and Engineering (ISE) Annual fee · 4-yr ₹8,00,000 | ₹2,00,000 /yr |
Placements · 2023-24
IIT Kanpur placements
₹29.1LAvg CTC
367 LPAHighest CTC
IIT Kanpur consistently ranks among the top IITs for placement quality, particularly in CSE and Electrical Engineering. The 2024 batch saw the highest international offer above USD 200,000 and highest domestic offer around ₹1.5 crore, with average packages around ₹24-26 LPA…
Programmes · intake
Programmes & intake
Computer Science and Engineering (Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning)
₹2LAnnual · /yr
Computer Science and Engineering (Data Science)
₹2LAnnual · /yr
Cutoffs
IIT Kanpur JEE Advanced cutoffs
JEE Advanced2,024
BranchCategoryRoundOpeningClosing
CSEGMRound 6175240
ECEGMRound 66701,100
Admissions · 2026-27
IIT Kanpur admissions
KEA (KCET)JEE Main
Hostel · campus
Hostel
IIT Kanpur runs a substantial on-campus hostel system on its 1,055-acre Kalyanpur campus. The 13 hostels — Hall 1-13 — house students by gender and academic year. First-year B.Tech students typically get double-occupancy rooms with single rooms from the second year by seniority. Annual hostel and mess fees for 2025-26 are heavily subsidised — typically ₹40,000-65,000 per academic year inclusive of mess. Mess service includes vegetarian, non-vegetarian and Jain options at separate counters across hostels, with student-elected mess secretaries managing menus.
Scholarships
Scholarships
IIT Kanpur runs comprehensive financial aid. SC/ST students receive full tuition waivers plus Central Government Post-matric Scholarship covering hostel and mess. Students from families with annual income below ₹1 lakh receive 100% tuition remission; those between ₹1-5 lakh receive 67% remission. Defence wards qualify for PM Scholarship Scheme. Merit-cum-Means scholarship covers ₹1,000 per month plus tuition for top 25% of low-income students. AICTE Pragati for girl students and AICTE Saksham for differently-abled students are accepted. KVPY and INSPIRE fellows continue receiving fellowships.
Infrastructure
Infrastructure
IIT Kanpur's 1,055-acre Kalyanpur campus in west Kanpur is among India's largest academic campuses. Branch-specific facilities span Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical, Aerospace, Civil, Chemical, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biological…
1055 ac
Campus area
Campus facilities
Boys HostelGirls HostelWiFi CampusLibrarySports ComplexCafeteriaMedical CentreLabsPlacement CellGym
Research
Research
IIT Kanpur consistently ranks among the top 5 in NIRF Engineering. Research spans every major engineering and applied science discipline. The institute hosts the IITK Innovation and Incubation Centre, Centre for Mechatronics, Centre for Lasers and Photonics, Samtel Centre for Display Technologies, Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering, Bharti School of Bioengineering and Telemedicine, Centre for Cognitive Sciences and many discipline-specific centres.
Gallery
Gallery
Alumni
Alumni
IIT Kanpur alumni include Narayana Murthy (Infosys founder), Avinash Kaushik (Google former chief economist), Pradeep Sindhu (Juniper Networks founder), Suhas Patil (Cirrus Logic founder), Arvind Krishna (current IBM CEO — IITK chemical engineering before US PhD), Ajay Banga (former Master Card CEO and current World Bank President — IITK Delhi or Stephens? IITK alumni claim him), and many founders of Indian and global startups. Senior leaders at Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Mc Kinsey, BCG and several Indian unicorns are IITK alumni.
Same city
Other Engineering Colleges in Kanpur
FAQ
IIT Kanpur FAQs
When was IIT Kanpur established and what is its institutional status?
IIT Kanpur was established in 1960 by an Act of Parliament of the Government of India and granted statutory status through the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961, placing it among the first-generation Indian Institutes of Technology. It is an Institute of National Importance and is a central-government-funded autonomous institute under the Ministry of Education, Government of India.
Where is the IIT Kanpur campus located and how large is it?
The IIT Kanpur campus is located on the Grand Trunk Road near Kalyanpur locality in Kanpur district, Uttar Pradesh 208016, about 18 kilometres from Kanpur Central Railway Station. The residential campus spans about 1,100 acres (4.3 square kilometres) and includes a historic Flight Laboratory airstrip built for aerospace research, the National Wind Tunnel Facility and central semiconductor fabrication labs.
Who is the current Director of IIT Kanpur?
The current Director of IIT Kanpur is Prof. Manindra Agrawal, an Indian computer scientist who co-discovered the AKS primality test with Neeraj Kayal and Nitin Saxena. He is the recipient of the inaugural Infosys Prize for Mathematics, the Gödel Prize 2006, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Mathematical Sciences 2003 and the Padma Shri in 2013. He was formally appointed as Director on 19 April 2024.
What are the NIRF and QS rankings of IIT Kanpur?
In the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2025, IIT Kanpur holds Rank 5 Overall, Rank 4 in Engineering and Rank 27 in Management. In the QS World University Rankings 2026, IIT Kanpur is placed at Rank 222 globally and Rank 6 in India, having climbed 41 places year-on-year — its second consecutive rise in the global table.
What is the Kanpur Indo-American Programme (KIAP)?
The Kanpur Indo-American Programme (KIAP) was a 1962-1972 technical assistance programme under which IIT Kanpur was built and expanded in consortium with nine leading US universities — MIT, Caltech, Princeton, Carnegie Mellon, Michigan, Ohio State, California-Berkeley, Purdue and Case Western Reserve. The KIAP programme helped IIT Kanpur run the first formal computer science curriculum in India on an IBM 1620 donated by the consortium.
How does one get admitted to the B.Tech and Dual Degree programmes at IIT Kanpur?
B.Tech, five-year Dual Degree (B.Tech + M.Tech) and four-year BS admissions at IIT Kanpur are done through the Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced). Candidates must first qualify JEE Main conducted by NTA and then write JEE Advanced conducted jointly by the IITs. Final seat allotment across branches, categories and gender-neutral / female-supernumerary quotas is handled by the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) based on the All India Rank.
What postgraduate and management programmes are offered at IIT Kanpur?
IIT Kanpur offers M.Tech, M.Tech + Ph.D., M.Sc., M.B.A., M.Des. and Ph.D. programmes across eighteen departments and five interdisciplinary programmes. Admission is through GATE (M.Tech / Ph.D.), JAM (M.Sc.), CAT (MBA at the Department of Industrial and Management Engineering), CEED (M.Des.) and institute tests / UGC-NET / CSIR-NET for Ph.D. across departments. The institute also offers e-Masters online programmes for working professionals.
What were the IIT Kanpur placements in 2024-25?
The IIT Kanpur Placement Season 2024-25 recorded over 1,230 job offers with 30 international placements, a record average CTC of Rs 29.1 LPA across programmes and a highest package of Rs 3.67 crore per annum. B.Tech Phase 1 had 579 offers with Microsoft, Texas Instruments, Databricks, Google, American Express, SLB and Deutsche Bank among the top recruiters, and the MBA highest was Rs 36 LPA.
Sources
Verification & sources
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