You must hurry if you want to take admission in the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore to study post-graduate courses as March 25 is the last date to submit the online application forms. The registration for the admission in the PG courses such as MBA, MTech and PhD are open till 11:59 pm on Monday.
For M.Tech, students must have cleared GATE 2017/ 2018/ 2019. Those who have cleared the CAT or GATE exams are eligible to apply for the MBA. For MDES, candidates must have qualified GATE or CEED 2018/2019. The validity of the scorecard of the national level exams must be August 1, 2019. The IISC application form 2019 is available at admissions.iisc.ac.in. The main qualifiers are graduation degree and the score of the national level exams.
For some courses, there is direct admission on the basis of the cut-offs of qualifying exam score. Whereas for some MTech courses there is an additional written test/ interview. It will have a weight-age of 30%. For MBA courses, there is a GDPI round for a total of 15 seats.
The application fee for General/ OBC category is Rs 800. For the reserved categories, the fee is Rs 400. Students applying via External Registration Programme (ERP) have to pay Rs 2,000 as the application fee. Whereas for the sponsored candidates from Defence, DRDO, BARC, KSRTC, BMTC, BDA, ISRO, NAL, NTRO, PWD and CPRI, the fee is Rs 800. The fee has to be paid in online mode only to complete the application process.
The applicants are advised to visit the website www.iisc.ac.in/admissions and the department website to which they are applying to familiarize themselves with complete admission related matters, areas of research, etc.