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IIT Kharagpur ranked 4th in India in the latest QS World University Rankings 2025

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur ranked 4th in India in the latest QS World University Rankings 2025. The institute jumped ahead 49 places in comparison to its 2024 performance to become the 222nd University in the world. The first and the largest IIT of the country ranked 3rd among all IITs of the country in the QS World University Rankings 2025.

Speaking on the QS World University Rankings 2025, Prof. V K Tewari, Director, IIT Kharagpur remarked, “IIT Kharagpur has upheld the nation’s resolve to excel the standards of globalization with artificial intelligence, advance manufacturing systems and transportation, 5G Network, safety engineering and analytics, quality and reliability, affordable healthcare, precision agriculture, food nutrition and smart infrastructure to contribute towards an Atmanirbhar Bharat.”

The World University Ranking 2025 by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) featured 1503 Universities from all over the world and evaluated 5663 institutions in total. The institute has performed well in parameters like International Research Network, Sustainability and Citations per Faculty.

 As an institute of eminence, IIT Kharagpur’s initiatives on developing Technological Research Parks, Centres of Excellence, start-up incubators, Lab to Market products and Nano Missions are the new ecology for innovation and technological pursuits of the institute. Successful implementation of Vikshit Bharat as instituted by our Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi requires participation of several stakeholders including government agencies, public and private enterprises, academic and research organizations. We have to acquire the opportunity in digital economy space and biomedical engineering fostering technological expansions by creating the human-machine synergy that would set the future technology development agenda for the developed India,” Prof. Tewari added.

Many Congratulations to all the Students, Alumni, Faculty and Staff Members!!

KGP ka tempo high hai!

 

 

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Business Analytics Placement Scales New Heights

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The Final Placements for the Postgraduate Diploma in Business Analytics Programme of IIM Calcutta, ISI and IIT Kharagpur for the 2017-2019 batch concluded with the batch of 52 receiving a total of 66 offers made by 35 firms.

The programme which has been ranked top in India and 14th globally among full-time business analytics course by the QS Rankings has witnessed a record increase of 11% in domestic offers alone with the mean salary going upto Rs. 24.40 lakh per annum. The highest domestic offer made was ₹35 LPA. The overall average CTC has risen to ₹25.05 lakh per annum from ₹22.89 lakh per annum last year.

BFSI made up for about a third of the total offers emerging as the biggest sector. The major recruiters from the final placements include JP Morgan Chase, Adani Group, Viacom18, Myntra, Flipkart, United Airlines, Piramal Group. Two international offers were also received.

With an impressive conversion rate of 63.5%, the PPOs make up the majority of the offers made. The major recruiters in the internship process included DE Shaw & Co, ABInBev, Amazon, PwC, Barclays, Gartner, Johnson & Johnson, Master Card. The average monthly stipend of the internships bettered last year’s number by 22.8% reaching ₹1,13,565/- this year. The median monthly stipend rose by a remarkable 29.4% to reach ₹1,11,100/-.

“The outstanding placements this year demonstrates to our focus on academic excellence and appreciation of PGDBA Program by Industry,” Professor Arun Misra, Faculty and Placement Convener of the PGDBA programme from IIT Kharagpur.

Post Graduate Diploma in Business Analytics is a 2-year full-time residential program in Business Analytics and Data Science started jointly by three premier institutes of the country – IIM Calcutta, ISI, IIT Kharagpur. The elite institutes lend their expertise in enriching the course curriculum with Statistics, Machine Learning and Computing and their contemporary Business applications in the Analytics industry.

Business Analytics Program Ranked 2nd in QS Asia

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The Postgraduate Diploma in Business Analytics (PGDBA) jointly offered by IIT Kharagpur, IIM  Calcutta and Indian Statistical Institute has been ranked as top in India and 2nd in Asia by QS in the category business analytics courses. The course has been ranked 14th globally in the category.

PGDBA is a two-year full-time residential diploma programme aimed at creating business analytics professionals employable by leading Indian and foreign firms. This programme is designed for those who have an analytical mindset, are interested in tackling challenging business problems, and possess an inclination towards mathematics.

“This programme is designed for those who have an analytical mindset, are interested in tackling challenging business problems, and possess an inclination towards mathematics. It aims to help shape the emerging profession of business analytics by delivering a cutting-edge interdisciplinary educational experience to graduate applicants with an aspiration of building a career in this field” said Prof. P K Das, Dean, Postgraduate Studies and Research at IIT Kharagpur.

The programme which was launched in 2015 also witnessed resounding success in placements in 2018 with a 26% rise in mean salary (international inclusive). The industries recruiting these Business Analytics professionals are spread across BFSI, Consulting, Healthcare, Telecom and FMCG with BFSI in a variety of roles spanning Sr. Data Scientist, Machine Learning Scientist, Associate – Strategy Analytics, Manager – Advanced Analytics and Risk Analyst.

Students will visit the three institutions – Indian Statistical Institute, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, and Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. Each of the three institutes will focus on a separate area of business analytics, in accordance with its expertise and competence.  At IIT KGP, Vinod Gupta School of Management is coordinating this program with faculty members of the School along with those from the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Dept. of Mathematics and Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship involved in teaching various subjects. The students are also required to do an internship of six months duration on an analytics project in a business organization.

“While coursework at IIM Calcutta focuses on the application of analytics in functional areas, Indian Statistical Institute brings to the table its expertise in statistical and machine learning theories for analytics, and faculty at IIT Kharagpur engages with the technology aspects of analytics in addition to offering electives in management domain with focus on application of analytics in functional areas,” said Prof. Prabina Rajib, Dean, Vinod Gupta School of Management.

The program is unique in its collaborative approach with India’s three top institutions with admission, placement (both internship and final) processes jointly by all three institutes. “This shows how collaboration between the best can really make a top-notch programme,” remarked Prof. P P Chakrabarti, Director IIT Kharagpur

For more information visit: http://www.pgdba.iitkgp.ac.in/index.html

IIT KGP Launches AI Drive for NexGen Indian Engineers

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With the launch of the Centre of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence earlier this year, IIT KGP has been conducting several outreach programs focused towards challenges and applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) which are directly going to impact people’s lives significantly in the near future. Following the IT wave of 90s and 21st century, AI could turn out to be the next key element for the economic development of India. IIT KGP has taken to the task of bringing the younger generation of engineers to venture into new technologies in this domain.

The Institute along with its alumni organized a marathon weekend on AI at Kharagpur and Bengaluru bringing together industry experts, researchers and entrepreneurs who are engaged in cutting-edge developments in AI or are making use of AI applications in their field of work. Close to 1100 budding engineers from these two cities delved into the challenges pertaining to illiteracy, hunger, disease, natural disasters, speech recognition, advanced transportation, consumer behaviour, market analytics etc. – and how AI can be used to solve them.

“Adopting to AI in a large scale and for the masses is quite possible in India, given that the country already has a lot going for it by way of digital penetration, its huge talent pool, and its proven ability to scale up new technology. India stands to benefit from AI in a big way,” remarked Prof. Pallab Dasgupta, Dean, Sponsored Research & Industrial Consultancy at IIT Kharagpur. A recent survey by SRIC showed that as many as 83 of its Faculty use AI in their work some of which include the National Digital Library of India, crop-screening to monitoring to data-driven precision farming, intelligent transportation, mining etc.

In the up.AI Summit organized by the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering and the Centre for AI at IIT Kharagpur, campus researchers and industry experts gave demonstrations of how AI was being used in their respective fields – be it retail, banking, healthcare, transport or education. This also features up.AI Challenge and spotlight presentations by students. An AI challenge for students has also been launched. The projects will be mentored by faculty of IIT KGP and industry experts and selected projects will be incubated, confirmed Prof. Sudeshna Sarkar, Head of AI Centre at IIT KGP.

In the two-day event at Bengaluru, Prof. P P Chakrabarti, Director, IIT Kharagpur discussed the roadmap of the Centre for AI with corporations, start-ups and industry experts. Many of them included the alumni of the Institute who have been successful proponents of various AI technologies such as Capillary Technologies which uses AI in omnichannel retailing; Liv.AI which has developed the first of its kind speech-to-text recognition AI-based application in several Indian languages and SigTuple, an AI based healthcare startup.

Among the corporates and startups which participated in the event at the IIT KGP campus included TCS, @Saama Technologies, AgricX Lab, AgNext, Jio CoE in AI etc.