IIT Guwahati - Indian Institute of Technology (IITG) Courses & Fee Structure

Choose a course before comparing the fee

IIT Guwahati’s published academic catalogue spans undergraduate engineering and design, postgraduate coursework and research degrees, an MBA, doctoral study, and a separate online BSc (Hons.) in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. The institute’s live admissions pages list BTech disciplines including Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics and Computing, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, and Energy Engineering; BDes is a four-year programme. Its postgraduate catalogue includes MTech specialisations across engineering and interdisciplinary areas, MDes, MS by Research, MA, MSc, and MBA. Use the official BTech/BDes discipline list and master’s programme list to confirm the specific subject and current offering rather than treating the institute’s degree labels as one common course.

For planning a 2027 application, note the evidence date: as checked on 28 October 2026, IIT Guwahati had not published a general 2027-28 fee schedule on its Academic Affairs fee page. The figures below are the latest official values visible in the relevant programme pages and 2026 admission material. They help build a budget, but the 2027 offer letter and current admission instructions must settle the amount due. In particular, a programme’s tuition alone is not the same as its first-semester payable amount or the full cost of attendance.

On-campus fee structure: separate tuition, recurring charges and deposits

The institute’s summary gives admission-time totals for regular-category entrants: ₹1,65,250 for BTech/BDes/BS in the GEN, GEN-EWS and OBC-NCL categories; ₹98,583 for the listed OEB undergraduate category; ₹65,250 for SC/ST/PwD or MEB undergraduate entrants; ₹80,250 for MTech/MDes/MS(R); ₹70,250 for MA/MSc; and ₹3,05,250 for MBA. The page says the MBA amount will be reflected in the offer letter. Its PhD summary is ₹93,652 for GEN/GEN-EWS/OBC-NCL and ₹78,652 for SC/ST/PwD, with medical insurance included. Treat these as the page’s admission-time summary, not a four-year or complete degree bill. Some entries are category-specific; the table does not provide one universal price for every student.

To understand the bill, the same page separates charges into three layers. At admission, it lists ₹10,800 in one-time non-refundable charges, including admission, certificates, medical examination, identity card, modernization/upgradation and alumni fees. Doctoral students also have a ₹10,000 thesis fee. The institute lists ₹12,000 in refundable caution deposits: ₹4,000 each for institute, library and, for hostellers, hostel caution money. Refundability is distinct from whether the amount must be arranged at admission; check the current payment instructions for deposit-return conditions.

Recurring semester costs include tuition plus registration/enrolment (₹2,000), examination (₹500), academic facilities (₹3,000), medical (₹500), Gymkhana (₹2,000), student welfare (₹500), student funds and fest charges. Hostel fund, rent, maintenance, electricity/water and the adjustable mess advance are marked hosteller-only. The live table gives ₹21,250 as the adjustable mess advance and ₹3,402 for medical insurance paid annually at admission or in the Monsoon Semester. It displays a recurring total of ₹45,852 plus tuition. Do not add every visible row again to that published total: the official page’s own summary is the appropriate starting point, and its category/programme and accommodation qualifiers still apply. Mess advance is labelled adjustable, so it should not be read as a fixed final meal cost.

The standard tuition table is per semester for students outside SC/ST/PwD categories: BTech/BDes/BS ₹1,00,000; MBA ₹2,00,000; MA/MSc ₹5,000; PhD ₹15,000; and most MTech/MDes/MS(R) students ₹15,000. It lists ₹30,000 for MTech/MDes/MS(R) sponsored students who are not serving as teachers, ₹5,00,000 for industry-sponsored students, and ₹30,000 for PG/doctoral non-regular categories. SC/ST/PwD students have no tuition fee according to the same page. That waiver is for tuition, not a statement that every other fee or deposit disappears. As categories and sponsorship status change the amount, compare the exact fee row that applies to you and use your offer letter before paying.

Undergraduate waivers and July 2026 first-semester examples

For undergraduate programmes, the institute defines Most Economically Backward (MEB) applicants as General, GEN-EWS or OBC-NCL students with annual family income below ₹1 lakh; the listed tuition fee is fully waived. Other Economically Backward (OEB) students in those same social categories, with annual family income between ₹1 lakh and ₹5 lakh, receive a two-thirds tuition waiver. The page requires a competent-authority family income certificate for financial year 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026 and a ₹100 non-judicial-stamp-paper income affidavit. The eligibility bands and documentation matter: do not infer that an income-based waiver applies to all categories or to postgraduate tuition. False concession information can be recovered with penal interest and may lead to legal action.

The separate July 2026 BTech/BDes payment notice illustrates why “amount payable now” can differ from the fee summary. It shows balances after the JEE Advanced or UCEED seat-acceptance amount is transferred or adjusted. For example, its BTech section explains that ₹5,000 is deducted as a reporting-centre processing charge and the remaining acceptance amount is adjusted against IIT Guwahati’s first-semester total. These are payment balances for the July 2026 cohort, not fresh 2027 estimates. Use them only to understand the adjustment mechanism; the next cohort’s amount and counselling transfer may differ.

A separate programme example is the four-year BS in Biomedical Science and Engineering (BMSE). Its 2026 admission page states tuition of ₹1,00,000 per semester, a first-semester admission fee including tuition of ₹1,65,250 with medical insurance added, and ₹1,42,450 from the second semester onward with insurance extra. It also says fees may be revised and that SC/ST/PwD students pay no tuition. This programme-specific note is useful when comparing its charges with the broader BTech/BDes/BS table; do not add the two tables together or carry the 2026 stated amounts forward as a confirmed 2027 schedule.

MBA, research degrees and the online BSc have different cost models

IIT Guwahati’s MBA page directs applicants to the common fee schedule and says the actual MBA amount will appear in the offer letter. The schedule’s ₹3,05,250 regular-category admission-time summary includes an MBA-only ₹40,000 Learning Resources Fee. The separately listed tuition is ₹2,00,000 per semester for students outside SC/ST/PwD categories. Those numbers describe different fee bases: do not multiply or add them into a two-year programme total without a complete, cohort-specific invoice and the remaining semester charges. The MBA programme page gives the 2-year programme and routes applicants back to the official fee schedule.

For MTech, MDes, MS(R), MA, MSc and PhD, the common table is a useful comparison, but sponsored status, non-regular status, programme and category can change tuition. MTech/MDes/MS(R) regular tuition is ₹15,000 per semester in the displayed table, while a non-teacher sponsored student is charged ₹30,000 and an industry-sponsored student ₹5,00,000. MA/MSc tuition is ₹5,000 per semester and PhD tuition ₹15,000 for students outside SC/ST/PwD. The July 2026 postgraduate admission notice links to the fee structure and lists the programmes advertised for that intake; use the relevant admission notice and studentship category page for the particular offer rather than treating this tuition table as the total cost of a research degree.

The online BSc (Hons.) in Data Science and AI follows a different, credit-based structure and should not be budgeted like an on-campus BTech. IIT Guwahati’s programme fee page lists a ₹1,000 application fee, ₹3,000 qualifier-test fee, ₹50,000 admission fee, tuition of ₹1,100 per credit, and a ₹6,000 continuation fee for a trimester with no registered credits. The page’s example for 299 credits gives ₹3,78,900 in total programme fees: ₹50,000 admission, then ₹88,000, ₹86,900, ₹77,000 and ₹77,000 across its four annual rows. The institute says these fees may be revised; fees once paid are non-refundable and non-transferable. Students can choose a lower credit load, so actual payment timing can differ from the page’s annual example. Confirm the amount and rules shown for the January 2027 cohort before registering.

A practical fee-check before accepting an offer

First identify the exact degree, intake, category and studentship or sponsorship type. Then check whether the figure is tuition only, a first-semester amount, a recurring semester total, a payment balance after counselling adjustment, or an online credit-based schedule. Add hostel and mess-related amounts only if the official table says they apply to hostellers; distinguish refundable caution deposits from non-refundable charges. If claiming an MEB/OEB waiver, prepare the exact income documents for the stated financial year and upload them through the admission portal. Finally, open the current admission page and offer letter before transferring money: the institute’s 2025 revision notice applies to continuing students who joined before 2025, so its changed charges should not be mistaken for the published new-entrant schedule. For a 2027 applicant, ask Academic Affairs through the contact listed on the current admissions site if the new cohort fee notice is not yet available.