The Unknown Mtech degrees ?

1. IIT Madras Regular and Texas M.S are very good and often people over look it. Don’t do it.

 2. IIT Delhi VDTT

 3. IIT Delhi JTM   and Computer Technology  
                                                                   
M.S. in India........

          Its been few years that research is getting good boost up in India. M.S. is one of the prominent courses to have got started in IITs. Not all IITs over it. IIT madras, delhi, kgp offer M.S. All the three are good.
Though the degree is equal academically with Mtech, the duration will be round 1.5 to 2.5 yrs. It is more of research oriented and less of courses.  It is like MINI Phd. as one of my friend Karishma (M.S. @ IIT kgp) says

Don't compare Mtech and MS that IITs offer. Both are different courses meant for different purposes.
Admission is mainly based on written test and Interview. But GATE is mandatory

Shortly I will add a write up regarding MS in IITs and about research. It will be from my friend Karishma, pursuing her MS in IIT Kgp.  

Why not Direct PHD...


Yes, many don't know about this. There is provision of direct PHD in India and few IITs have integrated course like the IIT Bombay which has Mtech+PHD course. Again Admission is mainly based on written test and Interview. But GATE is mandatory.


Understand Yourself First before deciding whether to take research or conventional courses

M.S. vrs Mtech

Both are good. MS is research oriented. If your research is in commercially viable areas, surely you will get placed in Companies in R&D sector. If not, you can go for Phd and plan for an academic career.
                  
 Mtech  RA good or bad

Institute RA

 1. You will work in any one of the laboratories (System Admin lab, communications and DSP lab, microelectronics lab, power electronics and machines lab, electronic circuits lab) of the institute. Your work may be heavy or light depending on the lab you get.
2. You are free to choose your final year project and guide based on your interests.
3.For shortlisting for interview, 50% weightage is given to GATE score and 50% weightage to your marks in the written test

Project RA

1.You will be assigned  a particular project under a particular professor. This may be an institute sponsored project or a project sponsored
2.Gate Score weightage is 75%
3.You are not free to choose your final year project and guide

More information about IIT Bombay RA is given in the later posts where I have shared one of my friends' experience and I bet it is totally worth it reading.

As I said that there is no difference in the degree you get. All are same and it depends on you  as to how well you do.

With this, I will end up telling you things and now start telling you things that made me get good rank in GATE 2015.
 What all did I study? 
        How did I manage time inspite of working in a company?
                   What books did I study?
        
                                              Come on explore more for all the secrets.

The Others

IIT Roorkee and Guwahati

Both have only Mtech courses (TA).  They conduct counseling for their seats and few times interviews. They have VLSI, Communications, Signal Processing branches.

Check out with the seniors before you join them.

As it is counselling based. it is tought to estimate. 

AIR< 300 ( General Category )   - VLSI
AIR< 450 ( General Category )  - Communication and Signal Processing.


Newer IITs

Of all the Newer IITs, only IIT Hyderabad is promising and is very super in terms of standards. This I am saying because of lot of reasons. I had done my Internship in IIT Hyderabad. It is very good in terms of research and placements and facilities, inspite of being a new IIT.. 

I have lot of friends who are studying and none of them have raised any negative point regarding it and all of them are getting into good companies. 

IIT Hyderabad

It offers MTECH TA and RA, Direct Phd. Since 2015, It started Counseling for TA seats. Until 2014, it used to have direct admission for TA and Written test for RA.




1. MTECH - TA
AIR< 250 ( General Category ) – VLSI
AIR < 500 ( General Category )  - Communication and Signal Processing

2 MTECH – RA
AIR < 1000 ( General Category ) will get call for written test and Interview

3 Direct Phd
AIR < 4000 (General Category )  - Call for Written test and Interview


Upto now, I have discussed maximum number of specializations of Post Graduation in IITs for ECE guys.
With this I will summarize this discussion and discuss a bit about other things.