Important Guidelines

1. The link to the online application form is available in the Apply Online tab. After filling the form, please take a print and keep it for your record.
2. A candidate can apply to a maximum of three departments.
3. A Statement of Purpose (SoP) must be uploaded along with the online application.
4. At the time of physical reporting to the Institute (after admission is finalized), candidates must submit self-attested copies of the relevant certificates.
5. Please be ready with the following documents before upload:
   • A copy of passport or any government issued identity document
   • Passport size Photo (jpg, jpeg, png), size <=500 KB
   • Signature (format jpg, jpeg, png) size <= 200 KB
   • School leaving certificate (pdf) size <=1024 KB
   • UG Degree Certificate (pdf) size <=1024 KB
   • Consolidated UG transcript (pdf) size <=1024 KB
   • PG Degree Certificate (if applicable) (pdf) size <=1024 KB
   • Consolidated PG transcript (pdf) size <=1024 KB
   • SoP/Research Proposal, (pdf) size <=1024 KB
   • First page of publication, (if applicable) (pdf, jpg, jpeg) each size <= 1024 KB
6. In case of any queries, please write to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Research Areas (For MS)

Department	Division	Areas of Research
Chemical Engineering	Chemical Engineering	Nanobiotechnology, Process Control and Optimization, Machine Learning for Nanomaterials, Computer Vision for Process Engineering, Production and Distribution Optimization, Biomass to Chemicals/Fuel, Materials for Li-Ion and Na-Ion Batteries, Catalytic Conversion of Co2 to Fuel, Granular Flow, Theoretical Fluid Mechanics, Membrane Science, Food Science and Technology, Microfluidics, General Chemical Engineering, Molecular simulations for energy materials, Molecular simulations for soft matter and interfaces.
Civil and Environmental Engineering	Environmental Engineering	Environmental Engineering
	Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing	Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing
	Geotechnical Engineering	Geotechnical Engineering
	Structural Engineering	Structural Engineering
	Transportation Engineering	Transportation Engineering
	Water Resources Engineering	Water Resources Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering	Algorithm and Architecture	Parallel Computing, High Performance Computing, Graph Analytics, Algorithms and Data Structures, Algorithms and Computational Complexity, Architecture and Processor Design, AI Accelerator/Hardware, VLSI Testing and Verification
	Learning Systems	AI + Software Engineering, Software Systems, Computing for Education, Human-Computer Interaction, Reinforcement Learning, Data Science Algorithms and Applications,Adversarial Deep Learning, Federated Learning, Deep learning for Edge Devices, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning, Stochastic Approximation Algorithms , Multi Agent Systems, Emergent Communication
	Intelligent Networks	Computer Networks, Internet of Things, Machine Learning for IoTs, AI for Cybersecuirty
Electrical Engineering	Power and Control	Control and Robotics, Power Electronics, Smart Power Grids
	Signal Processing & Communications	Computer Vision, Deep Learning and Medial Imaging, Next Generation Wireless Communication and Networks
	Electronics	Digital VLSI Design and Processor Architecture, Electronic Devices and Circuits, Electronic Instrumentation
	RF & Microwave	Applied Electromagnetics, RF Sensors and Metamaterials, Antenna System Architecture
Mechanical Engineering	Advance Manufacturing	Smart CNC Machine Tools, 4D Printing, Digital twin for metal additive manufacturing, Distortion control in ship buidling structures, Robotics in large-scale welding , Functionally graded materials manufacturing using twin wire arc additive manufacturing, Composite Filaments for 3D Printing, 3D Printing of Composite Structures, Advanced Manufacturing Processes
	Fluids and Thermal Engineering	Fluid mechanics, Low speed aerodynamics, Wind tubrines,Drones, Energy storage ,Combustion, Heat transfer, High-speed combustion modelling, Hydrodynamics, Waves in Fluids, Non-Newtonian Fluid Flow, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
	Robotics and Mechatronics	Autonomous underwater Robot Design and Control, AI assisted concrete 3D printing, Optimization in robotics, Nonlinear estimation and control
	Solid Mechanics and Design	Vehicle dynamics, Automotive NVH, Fault detection, Digital twin for health monitoring, Experimental and theoretical biomechanics, Physics informed machine learning, Computational Solid Mechanics, Machine Learning in Mechanics

Research Areas (For Ph.D)

Department	Division	Areas of Research
Chemical Engineering	Chemical Engineering	Nanobiotechnology, Process Control and Optimization, Machine Learning for Nanomaterials, Computer Vision for Process Engineering, Production and Distribution Optimization, Biomass to Chemicals/Fuel, Materials for Li-Ion and Na-Ion Batteries, Catalytic Conversion of Co2 to Fuel, Granular Flow, Theoretical Fluid Mechanics, Membrane Science, Food Science and Technology, Microfluidics, General Chemical Engineering, Molecular simulations for energy materials, Molecular simulations for soft matter and interfaces.
Chemistry	Physical Chemistry	Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Microscopy, Biophysical Chemistry, Chemical Biology
	Computational and Theoretical Chemistry	Theoretical investigation of sea-water desalination, Theoretical spectroscopy of aqueous osmolytes, Computational biophysics.
	Theoretical Chemistry	Quantum Chemistry,Modelling Light-Matter Interactions,Stochastic Thermodynamics, Active matters,Theoretical Biophysical Chemistry, Active matters
	Organic Chemistry	Asymmetric total synthesis of bioactive natural products, *Organic Synthesis: C-H Activation, Photocatalysis, Electrochemical Organic Synthesis, *Total Synthesis, Carbohydrate chemistry, Synthestic Vaccines and adjuvants, Organic Synthesis, Alternative solvent to TCE, Transition Metal Catalysis, Asymmetric Catalysis, Organomatallic Catalysis, Photo Chemistry
	Inorganic Chemistry	Polyoxometalate chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry, Surface activation, Interlocked molecules, Energy storage, Waste-water treatment, Synthetic inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry
	Organic & Inorganic Chemistry	Chemical Biology, Environmental Chemistry, Bioorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry
Civil and Environmental Engineering	Environmental Engineering	Environmental Engineering
	Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing	Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing
	Geotechnical Engineering	Geotechnical Engineering
	Structural Engineering	Structural Engineering
	Transportation Engineering	Transportation Engineering
	Water Resources Engineering	Water Resources Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering	Algorithm and Architecture	Parallel Computing, High Performance Computing, Graph Analytics, Algorithms and Data Structures, Algorithms and Computational Complexity, Architecture and Processor Design, AI Accelerator/Hardware, VLSI Testing and Verification
	Learning Systems	AI + Software Engineering, Software SystemsComputing for Education, Human-Computer Interaction, Reinforcement Learning, Data Science Algorithms and Applications,Adversarial Deep Learning, Federated Learning, Deep learning for Edge Devices, Deep Reinforcement Learning Deep Learning, Multi Agent Systems
	Intelligent Networks	Computer Networks, Internet of Things, Machine Learning for IoTs, AI for Cybersecuirty
Electrical Engineering	Power and Control	Control and Robotics, Power Electronics, Smart Power Grids
	Signal Processing & Communications	Computer Vision, Deep Learning and Medial Imaging, Next Generation Wireless Communication and Networks
	Electronics	Digital VLSI Design and Processor Architecture, Electronic Devices and Circuits, Electronic Instrumentation
	RF & Microwave	Applied Electromagnetics, RF Sensors and Metamaterials, Antenna System Architecture
Humanities and Social Sciences	Organizational Behavior/HRM	Sustainable HRM, Decent Work and positive work outcomes, Positive Organizational Behavior, Strategic HRM and Organziational Performance, Academic Leadership.
	Operations Management/Industrial Engineering	Supply Chain Management, Reliability Engineering & Maintenance Management, Production Planning & Control, Project Management, Applications of Operations Research, Statistics and Machine Learning in Operations Management.
	Economics	Climate Change Economics, Disaster Management, Environmental Economics, Development Economics, Political Economy, Applied Econometrics and Machine Learning.
	English	Indian Poetics, Comparative Literary Studies, Environmental Humanities.
	Philosophy	Modern Indian Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Moral Philosophy.
Mathematics and Statistics	Mathematics	Partial Differential Equations, Inverse Problems, Metric Fixed Point Theory, Numerical Analysis, Meshfree Methods, Computational Fluid Dynamics, GPU Computing, Fractals.
	Statistics	Non-parametric Statistics, Multivariate Statistics, Biostatistics, Geospatial Statistics, Time Series Analysis, Machine Learning, Reliability and Survival Analysis, Causal Inference, Spatial-Temporal Models, Generalized Linear Models.
Mechanical Engineering	Advance Manufacturing	Smart CNC Machine Tools, 4D Printing, Digital twin for metal additive manufacturing, Distortion control in ship buidling structures, Robotics in large-scale welding , Functionally graded materials manufacturing using twin wire arc additive manufacturing, Composite Filaments for 3D Printing, 3D Printing of Composite Structures, Advanced Manufacturing Processes
	Fluids and Thermal Engineering	Fluid mechanics, Low speed aerodynamics, Wind tubrines,Drones, Energy storage ,Combustion, Heat transfer, High-speed combustion modelling, Hydrodynamics, Waves in Fluids, Non-Newtonian Fluid Flow, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
	Robotics and Mechatronics	Autonomous underwater Robot Design and Control, AI assisted concrete 3D printing, Optimization in robotics, Nonlinear estimation and control
	Solid Mechanics and Design	Vehicle dynamics, Automotive NVH, Fault detection, Digital twin for health monitoring, Experimental and theoretical biomechanics, Physics informed machine learning, Computational Solid Mechanics, Machine Learning in Mechanics
Physics	Theoretical Physics	Astrophysics: Astro particle physics, Cosmology, High energy phenomenology. Ultrafast physics: Theory of quantum dynamics at attosecond time scales, Theoretical atomic, molecular and optical physics, Computational physics. AMO and Plasma Physics: Relativistic Many body physics, Machine Learning based plasma modelling and diagnostics, Computational Atomic Physics, Relativistic calculations of electron atom processes. Soft/condensed Matter Physics: Computational soft matter physics, Ion trapping, Quantum many body physics, Relativistic Many body physics, Multiscale-modeling and machine learning in condensed matter and materials physics, Non-equilibrium statistical physics and Rheological characterization of glassy systems and complex fluids, Non-equilibrium systems.
	Experimental Physics	Spectroscopy and Experimental plasma Physics: Time resolved imaging for plasma characterisation, Tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy, Nonthermal plasma development and application in environmental remediation, Plasma-assisted material processing. Quantum optics: Precision laser spectroscopy, Laser cooling, Ion trapping, Ultracold atoms ions and molecules, cavity QED, quantum communication, portable atomic clocks and cavity ring down spectroscopy.

Eligiblity

All International MS/PhD applicants must satisfy the following criteria

• CGPA 6.5 or above
• Proof of English Proficiency – if medium of instruction at the undergraduate level is not English.

In addition, the following criteria need to be satisfied for various programs as listed below.

Ph.D. in Engineering	A Master’s degree in Engineering/Technology or a Master’s degree by Research in Engineering/Technology with a good academic record or a five-year integrated Masters/ Dual Degree in Engineering/Technology. or A Master’s degree in Sciences with a good academic record and of exceptional merit in the relevant Engineering discipline. or Candidates with a five-year integrated BS+MS degree.
PhD in Sciences	Master’s degree in Sciences with a good academic record. or Master’s degree holders in Engineering/Technology and Master of Science (Research) or a five-year integrated Masters/ Dual Degree in Engineering/Technology. or Candidates with a five-year integrated BS+MS degree.
PhD in Humanities	Master's degree in an eligible discipline with a good academic record.
MS (R) in Engineering	Candidates with a Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Technology or a Master’s Degree (M.Sc / MCA etc.) in the relevant discipline.

Fees and Deposits

The applicable tuition and other fee / deposits for Ph.D. scholars is available at the following link.

IIT Tirupati does not offer any financial assistance to international students. However, applicants can explore the following links for financial assistance.

• Study in India - (SII) - https://www.studyinindia.gov.in
• Indian Council for Cultural Relations - (ICCR) - http://a2ascholarships.iccr.gov.in
• ASEAN https://asean-iit.in
• For students from Nepal: Dr. Homi Jahangir Bhaba Scholarship for ME/M.Tech students (HJBSS) https://www.cgibirgunj.gov.in/page/advertisement-of-dr-homi-jahangir-bhabha-scholarship-scheme-2023-2024/
• ASEM-DUO Fellowship Programme - http://www.asemduo.org