IIT Students Can Study Now Across The Campuses
Introducing a comprehensive and intercampus exchange, IITs have decided for students to move beyond their own campuses and visit other IIT campuses to study. The implementation of the decision will take place this academic year, with students taking select courses or even spending a full term at another IIT, with credits seamlessly transferred back home.
Highlighting the groundwork behind this shift, Prof. V. Kamakoti, Director of IIT Madras, said, “We are mapping curricula across multiple programmes in various IITs.” “Once that is matched, our students from IIT Madras can spend a term in another IIT, or another student from IIT Kanpur or Delhi or Indore can come to the Madras campus to study some courses and earn credits, which we will transfer to the home institute.
This marks a big move from rigid, rank-bound pathways to a more flexible, networked academic experience, one that mirrors global exchange models while staying rooted in the IIT system.
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Reportedly, the move loosens the rigidity of the JEE-run system, where a single rank has long determined the entry and boundaries of student’s academic experiences for 4 or more years thereafter.
With academic deans collaborating and approvals underway, this initiative promises greater choice, mobility, and interdisciplinary learning for students across India’s premier tech institutions.
