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Verified 26 Apr 2026Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), Chennai — Fees, Placements & Admission 2026
The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), founded in 1959 with technical assistance from West Germany, is India's leading engineering and technology institute, located in Chennai on a…
NAAC Institute of National ImportanceNIRF 1
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ISE · Annual tuition
Facts
CollegeAndFees fact summary
- College
- Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), Chennai
- Short name
- IIT Madras
- City
- Chennai
- 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-madras
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Fees · 2026-27
IIT Madras 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 Madras placements
₹53.2LAvg CTC
430 LPAHighest CTC
IIT Madras (Chennai) consistently posts among the strongest placement outcomes in Indian engineering. The 2024 batch saw the highest international offer at around USD 250,000+ (₹2.1 crore-plus) and highest domestic offer around ₹2 crore, with average packages around ₹25-28 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 Madras JEE Advanced cutoffs
JEE Advanced2,024
BranchCategoryRoundOpeningClosing
CSEGMRound 6158165
ECEGMRound 6410660
MEGMRound 62,2003,050
Admissions · 2026-27
IIT Madras admissions
KEA (KCET)JEE Main
Hostel · campus
Hostel
IIT Madras runs an extensive on-campus hostel system on its 617-acre Adyar campus — 19 men's hostels (Alakananda, Brahmaputra, Cauvery, Ganga, Godavari, Krishna, Mahanadi, Mandakini, Narmada, Pampa, Saraswati, Sharavati, Sindhu, Tapti, Tunga, Yamuna and others) and 4 women's hostels (Sarayu, Sabarmati, Jamuna and the new Bharani-block). First-year B.Tech students are typically allocated double-occupancy rooms with single rooms available from the second year. Annual hostel and mess fees for 2025-26 are heavily subsidised — typically ₹40,000-65,000 per academic year inclusive of mess.
Scholarships
Scholarships
IIT Madras runs an extensive financial aid programme. SC/ST students receive full tuition waivers plus the Central Government Post-matric Scholarship covering hostel and mess fees. 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 the Prime Minister's Scholarship Scheme through the Sainik Welfare Board. The Merit-cum-Means scholarship covers ₹1,000 per month plus tuition for the top 25% of students from low-income families.
Infrastructure
Infrastructure
The IIT Madras campus extends across 617 acres in Adyar, Chennai — one of India's largest and most ecologically rich academic campuses, with substantial deer, blackbuck and bird populations alongside the academic blocks.
617 ac
Campus area
Campus facilities
Boys HostelGirls HostelWiFi CampusLibrarySports ComplexCafeteriaMedical CentreLabsPlacement CellGym
Research
Research
IIT Madras is among India's leading research institutions, ranked #1 in NIRF 2024 (overall) for several consecutive years. Research spans every major engineering and applied science discipline.
Gallery
Gallery
Alumni
Alumni
IIT Madras alumni include some of India and the world's most influential engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs and policy figures. Notable alumni include Sundar Pichai (CEO, Alphabet/Google — IIT Madras dropout, transferred to Stanford), Krishna Bharat (Google News founder), Ashish Goel (Stanford computer science professor), Venkatesan Guruswami (Berkeley CS professor), Pradeep Sindhu (Juniper Networks co-founder), Padmasree Warrior (former Cisco CTO and Motorola CTO), Murali Doraiswamy (Duke psychiatry chair), Raghuram Rajan (former RBI Governor — IITD economics undergrad but did MBA at IIM…
Same city
Other Engineering Colleges in Chennai
FAQ
IIT Madras FAQs
When was IIT Madras established and what is its institutional status?
IIT Madras was established in 1959 as the third Indian Institute of Technology with technical, academic and financial assistance from the Government of West Germany under the first Indo-German agreement signed in Bonn in 1959. It is an Institute of National Importance under the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961, and is a central-government-funded autonomous institute under the Ministry of Education, Government of India.
Where is the IIT Madras campus located and how large is it?
The IIT Madras campus is located on Sardar Patel Road, Adyar-Guindy, Chennai 600036, Tamil Nadu. It spans about 617 acres (2.5 square kilometres) on a green, wooded plot carved out of the Guindy National Park, with spotted deer, black buck and bonnet macaques routinely sighted on campus. It is centrally placed close to Chennai Airport, Chennai Central Railway Station and the OMR IT Corridor.
Who is the current Director of IIT Madras?
The current Director of IIT Madras is Prof. V. Kamakoti (Kamakoti Veezhinathan), an IITM alumnus who earned both his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Madras. He was appointed as Director in 2022 and was conferred the Padma Shri in January 2026 for his contributions to computer engineering, Indian knowledge systems and public-interest computing.
What are the NIRF and QS rankings of IIT Madras?
In the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2025, IIT Madras holds Rank 1 Overall, Rank 1 in Engineering, Rank 2 in Research Institutions and Rank 13 in Management — the only Indian institution to hold both the Overall and Engineering #1 positions consecutively for several years. In the QS World University Rankings 2026, IIT Madras is placed at Rank 180 globally.
How does one get admitted to the B.Tech and Dual Degree programmes at IIT Madras?
B.Tech and five-year Dual Degree (B.Tech + M.Tech) admissions at IIT Madras 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 Madras?
IIT Madras offers M.Tech, M.Tech + Ph.D., M.Sc., M.A., M.B.A., M.Des. and Ph.D. programmes across sixteen-plus departments and eighteen disciplines. Admission is through GATE (M.Tech / Ph.D.), JAM (M.Sc.), CAT (MBA at the Department of Management Studies), CEED (M.Des.), HSEE (M.A. in Development Studies / English Studies) and institute tests / UGC-NET / CSIR-NET for Ph.D. across departments.
What is the IITM Online Degree programme?
The IITM Online Degree is a set of online Bachelor of Science and Diploma programmes hosted by IIT Madras in areas such as Data Science and Applications and Electronic Systems, open to 10+2 qualifiers through an IITM-hosted qualifier exam and application cycle. It is one of the largest online degree programmes in the world run by an IIT and makes IITM academics accessible to learners across India and abroad.
What were the IIT Madras placements in 2025?
The IIT Madras B.Tech Placement Season 2025 recorded a highest package of Rs 4.3 crore per annum offered by Jane Street for its Hong Kong operations to a Computer Science and Engineering student. B.Tech CSE placements in 2025 had an average package of Rs 53.2 LPA and a median of Rs 46 LPA, with Black Rock, Glean, Da Vinci crossing Rs 2 crore and APT, Rubrik crossing Rs 1.4 crore. Recruiters include Google, Apple, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Microsoft, Jane Street and Black Rock.
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