IIT BHU and IIT Gandhinagar both are decent IITs. IIT Gandhinagar has a better NIRF ranking as compared to IIT BHU. Although IIT BHU has a lot of Engineering courses to offer, the overall infrastructure and environment are not as conducive as IIT Gandhinagar. Also, the recent year’s cutoffs are comparably higher for IIT Gandhinagar.

Furthermore, IIT Gandhinagar has a unique and distinctive “Foundation Program” which helps students get acquainted with academic life and college environment. Besides, the faculty of IIT GN is also among the best. On the contrary, there is a shortage of faculty members in many branches (including Civil Engineering) at IIT BHU.

The campus location of IIT Gandhinagar is also comparably better as compared to IIT BHU. It is pertinent to note that the campus of IIT BHU is merged with BHU, which makes the campus a crowded place for students. Also, the placement scenario in both the colleges is almost at the same level.

Although IIT BHU being much older than IIT Gandhinagar, offers a huge alumni base. IIT GN might be considered a new IIT by many, but the progress that it has shown is humongous. It also provides a conducive environment for research scholars and has an overhauled infrastructure (including labs). Both colleges have their pros and cons, so it is hard to choose one institute over the other.

Getting a 9+ CGPA anywhere is not an easy job. You need to be constant in terms of study and securing 9+ CGPA overall requires a high CGPA in all the subjects. 

Credit System:

For IIT Gandhinagar, there is a credit system where the first semester consists of 22 credits with 4 courses of 4 credits and 2 are of 3 credits. Coming to the second semester, it has a total of 24 credits where 5 subjects have 4 credits and 2 subjects have 2 credits in all.

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Now to get all the credits and achieve a high CGPA, the 10 points that are A grade is not easy to attain as they are given to fewer students whereas there are more students in the race of 9 points. As the subjects in the first year are the same, the classes will have around 150 students.

To attain a high grade in IIT Gandhinagar your CGPA should not be lower than 9. To achieve this you need to prove yourself in every subject as well as keep a track of the grades in the regular study pattern and continuous assessment.

Awards:

To keep you motivated, IIT Gandhinagar includes felicitation of the top performers by the dean and distribution of several other medals for both academic and non-academic domains. One of the domains of getting a medal is exemplary human qualities. So, there is always a reward for the good deeds. 

The director in a five-week foundation program also guides students on how to achieve high grades. For the ones who are unable to attain good grades, the institute helps them find their own talents and interests.

To answer it in just one word “amazing”. My fellow classmates also agree to the fact that studying in IIT Gandhinagar is in fact amazing. The following points will give you an overall idea as to why - 

• The institution provides you with a healthy and competitive educational ambience.
• You will experience remarkable freedom.
• Good atmosphere and competitive spirit for extra-curricular activities.
• Flexible laboratory timings. There are no fixed hours and thus, you can work at any time of your choice.
• Facilities for various types of sports and necessary sports equipment. In addition to that, there is a big playground meant for cricket and football.
• There are facilities meant for music.
• There is a big, well-established library on the campus.
• The institute also provides gym facilities to its students.

Placements at IIT Gandhinagar are pretty decent. The following table shows the statistics for the same:

Apart from all these, there are many other facilities at IIT Gandhinagar. You will surely be head over heels once you join it.

No, IIT Gandhinagar does not shortlist candidates from 2nd round of M tech candidates. Also, they don’t provide any waiting list for the same. They keep the seats vacant if anyone does not take admission. Although it is not correct as the seats remain vacant which can be filled by other waiting list candidates and their year will also not get wasted but this is not in our hands.

M.Tech seats are first filled by premium IITs and then the remaining seats by outside students who have qualified GATE. If you enter the college by qualifying GATE then you will be eligible for a scholarship as well. 

The college also conducts its personal test for M.Tech admissions. In which they ask quantitative, reasoning and engineering mathematics. There are no spot admissions as of now. As the college is new more changes are expected in the coming future.

The grading system at IIT is quite common and similar to other IIT’s. The procedure is quite systematic and involves steps like:

• You are awarded letter grade in courses and each letter has a numerical value. For instance, A is for 10; A – is 9; B is 8 and so on till F.
• The Semester Grade Point Average (SGPA) or Semester Performance Index (SPI) is calculated thereafter. It is the weighted average of grades of courses.
• On the other hand, Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) takes semester grades into consideration.
• There is also a criterion of giving A+ which has a numerical significance of 11 and is generally synonymous with exceptional performance.
• Grading varies across and the average falls in the range of B or C which is close to 5-6. 

The overall CPI and SPI will never extend 10.0. However, the more A+ you get, the more there are chances to compensate for bad performance in any semester.