The IIT Week · 21–27 September 2026 · Week 39 · All 23 IITs checked
Twenty-two companies made job offers to IIT students graduating in 2026 and then did not honour them. On Thursday the IITs, acting together, said they will not work with any of those companies for two placement seasons. More than 150 offers across 23 IITs are involved. According to people on the campuses, about 40 of them were Oracle's. The IITs themselves will not say who the 22 are, won't call it a blacklist, and the last time they tried this, in 2016, the ban lasted a single season. The deep dive below traces how it happened, what the ban actually does, and, if you are one of the 150, what you can do this week.
The throughline of the week is who IIT students can count on. The recruiters were the obvious answer, and 22 of them failed. At IIT Bombay, the institute's own process was on trial for a second week: a professor on leave, a 10-member panel with a seven-day deadline, and students asking for that panel to be rebuilt from outside. The counter-answer came from Chennai, where IIT Madras closed ₹450 crore of a deep-tech fund in three months and said it wants an IPO from its incubator every month, which is a job market that does not run through a placement cell at all.
Two IIT Delhi MTech students built a working graphics processor. Four IITs had a quiet week, and we say which. Wearing the campus you worked for is still the easiest part; the IIT collection is here.
The deep dive: 22 companies broke their IIT offers. Here is what the IITs did, what they didn't, and what you can do
TL;DR: The All IITs Placement Committee will refuse to work with 22 recruiters for the next two placement seasons because they did not honour more than 150 offers made to the Class of 2026. It is the second collective bar in ten months. It is also softer than it sounds: the committee won't name the firms, won't call it a blacklist, and in 2017 lifted the last one after a single season.
The story broke in the Economic Times on Thursday night. "The Indian Institutes of Technology have decided not to cooperate with 22 companies on campus recruitments for the next two placement seasons for failing to honour offers made to students graduating in 2026." The committee's convenor, Prof John Jose of IIT Guwahati, gave ET the scale: "more than 150 across 23 IITs, with some companies withdrawing 10-15 offers."
He declined to name the companies. Campus sources did it for him: "Oracle, according to campus sources, has not honoured around 40 offers at IITs and is among the companies that would face non-cooperation for two years." NDTV's version two days later attributes Oracle to "faculty sources". Nobody has put their name to it, and Oracle has not commented at any point since May.
How it got here: May's revocations, June's ultimatum, September's verdict
This did not start this week. In May, Oracle, which had made "between 25 and 35 offers at certain campuses", began pulling them, with two to five students hit at each of IIT Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Guwahati, Madras, BHU, Hyderabad and Roorkee. One IIT Kanpur graduate wrote that his Day 1 offer was revoked "just a week before my graduation". The r/Btechtards post that broke it (659 upvotes) explained why a revocation is worse at an IIT than anywhere else: "since IITs follow an 'one student - one offer' policy, they were unable to sit for many high paying companies during placements." A Day 1 offer takes you off the board. When it disappears in May, the board is gone.
In June, the committee tried to negotiate. ET reported an ultimatum to 10-plus firms, and named Oracle, Interview Kickstart and SuperAGI among them: honour the offers or pay three months' salary by 15 August, or be kept out of the 2027 and 2028 placement drives. Jose said the committee was "trying to convince them to at least take them (students) even at a lower salary or onboard a couple of months later." Some firms, ET reported, "are not willing to even pay three months' salary as compensation." At IIT Roorkee alone, the placement in-charge said six offers had been revoked and five joining dates deferred. That is the only per-campus count anyone has put on record.
The deadline later moved to 15 September. No source explains the extension. Firms that had not complied by then are the 22.
The IITs have done this before. The last ban lasted a year
| When | Firms | Affected | What the IITs did | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2016 | 31, named (incl. Zomato, Grofers, Portea) | ~140 students | "Blacklisted" for a year; list published | Mint |
| Sep 2017 | Same 31 | — | Ban formally revoked, unanimously | Indian Express |
| Dec 2025 | 20+, not named | Not given | Barred from the 2025-26 season; off-campus hiring still allowed | ET |
| Jun 2026 | 10+ (ET named Oracle, Interview Kickstart, SuperAGI) | ~100 students | Ultimatum: honour, or pay 3 months' salary | ET |
| Sep 2026 | 22, not named (Oracle per campus sources; "several startups") | 150+ offers | Two seasons of "non-cooperation"; letters by 30 Sep | ET, NDTV |
Three things in that table matter more than the headline number.
1. The IITs have gone quiet about names. In 2016 the coordinator said "We have blacklisted 31 companies for playing with the career of our students" and published the list. In 2026, the committee "will deliberately avoid terming the action as 'blacklisting', and instead describe it as 'non-cooperation'." That is a legal-risk choice, and it means a student checking a recruiter at another college has no public list to check against.
2. Last time, the ban lasted one season. The 2016 blacklist was revoked in September 2017, before that year's placements, so that "the new IITs can benefit if more companies take part in their campus placements." The same pressure exists now: the newer IITs need recruiters more than Bombay does. Whether "two seasons" survives the 2027 recruiter-registration window is the real test.
3. The numbers don't line up, and nobody is reconciling them. Jose told ET that "Last year, about 10-11 companies had not honoured offers." But ET itself reported in December 2025 that 20-plus firms had been barred from the 2025-26 season for revoking Class of 2025 offers. The two figures may count different things, such as fresh reneges against repeat offenders. Either way, "the highest in recent years" is the committee's own framing, not something the public record proves. And the institutes "do not have a consolidated figure for students who are still seeking jobs". The 20–30% re-placed through cross-referrals is Jose's estimate.
One more thing the ban does not do: stop these firms from hiring IIT graduates. When the IITs barred firms last December, those firms "have been permitted to hire through off-campus placements." On r/IITDelhi the one reply to the news asked exactly that: "Can't they just go off campus for these companies anyway?" Yes. The penalty is losing the placement-cell pipeline, the queue of the best-ranked candidates on Day 1, and that is only a penalty if the company still wants that queue. Oracle, which has cut its global headcount by about 21,000 in fiscal 2026 and has "not approached IITs for recruitment during the current year so far", may not.
If your offer was revoked: what you can actually do
This is not legal advice, and we are being careful about that line. We searched for an Indian court ruling on a revoked campus offer and for any record of an IIT student suing over one, and found neither. What exists is the statute and the placement system. In order of usefulness:
- Get your case into the count, in writing, now. The final list is still being compiled, and IITs "have been asked to provide the AIPC with updated details of individual cases." If your placement office does not have your revocation or deferral on file, your company may not be on the 22. Email them the offer letter, your acceptance, and the revocation or deferral message, with dates.
- Ask for the three months. The committee's own June demand was that firms honour the offer or pay three months' salary. That is the IIT system's stated floor for compensation. You can ask your placement office whether your company paid anyone and cite it in your own request to the company.
- Keep the paper trail. Under the Indian Contract Act, a proposal can be revoked "at any time before the communication of its acceptance is complete... but not afterwards" (Section 5). Breach entitles the other party to compensation for loss "which naturally arose in the usual course of things" (Section 73). The realistic remedy is money, not the job. Whether your particular letter is binding depends on its conditions (background check, degree completion, "business needs" clauses), which is a question for a lawyer who has read it.
- Use the cross-referral pipeline, and say yes to it early. Placement teams "have shared the CVs of affected candidates with companies that already recruit from IITs". That is where the 20–30% came from. An IIT Bombay graduate from the Class of 2025, quoted by ET in December 2025, had a ₹30 lakh offer revoked two days before joining and was re-placed through an alumnus.
- Ask about re-registration directly. We found no published IIT policy on whether a 2026 graduate whose offer was revoked can sit the 2026-27 season. Recruiter registrations open in September and final placements begin around October at younger IITs and in December at older ones. If re-entry is possible, it has to be asked for now.
For current students, the lesson is about the rule, not the company. "One student, one offer" works only if an offer is real. If the IITs want students to stop hedging (sitting for interviews after a Day 1 offer, or quietly applying off campus), they need the offer to carry a cost when a company breaks it. Two seasons out, unnamed, with off-campus hiring still open, is a first step. Publishing the list would be the second.
IIT Bombay, week two: the professor is on leave, the panel has a deadline, and nobody has been arrested
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TL;DR: The institute moved fast on process and slowly on everything else. By Sunday there was a new probe panel, a postponed exam, a professor on leave and a Crime Branch investigation with 20 statements recorded. There was no arrest, no public report, and a student body asking for the panel to be rebuilt from outside.
Last week's issue covered the death and the FIR in full. This week, in order:
- Mon 21 Sep. The professor named in the FIR is removed as Dean (Administrative Affairs). The Director's email: "Any further action will be taken after investigation." The same day the institute calls reports of Director Shireesh Kedare's resignation "false".
- Wed 23 Sep. The Board sets up a 10-member committee chaired by Dr Ramesh Venkateswaran, chairman of IIT Palakkad's Board, with three students and a psychiatrist on it, and a seven-day deadline. The professor is sent on leave "to facilitate an impartial probe". The case is now with the Mumbai Police Crime Branch, led by an ACP-rank officer.
- Thu 24 Sep. Mid-semester exams move from 26–27 September to 10–11 October, so a committee with equal student representation can write an invigilation SOP. The parents begin a hunger strike at Azad Maidan. A Congress MP is detained outside the gate.
- Fri 25 Sep. The Crime Branch has recorded 20 statements. The chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes holds an inquiry on campus. Police say the student's phone is pattern-locked and they cannot yet read it.
- Fri–Sat. A candle march to Hostel 4 asks that the committee be "reconstituted as an independent external body without current IIT-Bombay employees or students."
Why it matters: The panel's seven days run out around 30 September. If the report stays internal, the candle-march demand becomes the story.
Two numbers surfaced beside the case this week and are worth knowing, with their limits. An RTI answer obtained by the Hindustan Times shows IIT Bombay has "only five SCs and six OBCs among its 412 professors" and no ST professor, with 450 of 1,225 teaching posts vacant. And Ministry data compiled for a Lok Sabha question but never tabled counts 45 student suicides across the IITs between 2020-21 and 2024-25; the Hindustan Times notes the caste split is in line with intake from those groups. We are not reporting an age, the contents of the phone, or anything from the case's Reddit threads, several of which name students and use slurs.
What we are not saying: one outlet reported that the Director is also named in an FIR. No other outlet confirms it, so we are not printing it. Being named in an FIR is not a finding of guilt.
IIT Madras raised ₹450 crore in three months and says it wants an IPO every month
TL;DR: The IITM Unicorn Frontier Fund hit a ₹450 crore first close of a ₹1,000 crore target, has already written about ₹55 crore of cheques into four deep-tech startups, and the Director put a number on the ambition: 1,000 startups by 2032.
The fund is a joint vehicle of IIT Madras, the IIT Madras Research Park and Unicorn India Ventures. The first close came "in three months" of SEBI approval and was announced in Bengaluru on Saturday with the Finance Minister in the room; final close is expected by December. The four portfolio companies are Hathor (semi-cryogenic and cryogenic rocket engines), Quanstra (single-photon detectors for quantum systems), Triolt Energy (lithium-ion cells for drones) and Carbelim (microalgae carbon capture). The Hindu reports it is backed by IIT Madras alumni including Kris Gopalakrishnan.
The more interesting number came from Director V. Kamakoti at the alumni association's Sangam 2026 meet the same day. IIT Madras has "already incubated 583 startups, which command a valuation of Rs 83,000 crore", adds about 100 a year, and "75% of them are founded by individuals who do not belong to the institute." Read that last line twice. The IIT Madras incubator is no longer an alumni perk; it is a national on-ramp, and three in four of the founders it takes in each year come from outside IIT Madras.
Why it matters: For students, this is where the non-placement job market is being built. An IITM-backed fund writing ₹15–25 crore cheques into space, quantum and battery hardware is a hiring pipeline that does not run through the placement cell, which, after the deep dive above, is the point.
Two IIT Delhi MTech students built a working graphics processor. It is not a chip yet, and that is fine
TL;DR: A programmable micro-GPU, designed in India and demonstrated on an FPGA, with a roadmap to 8–16 cores and a 65nm silicon proof of concept. Some headlines called it India's first GPU. The researchers were more careful.
MTech students Nammi Akash and M Ravi Teja led the build under Professors Jayadeva and Kaushik Saha of the Electrical Engineering department. The team's own claim is precise: "To the best of our knowledge, this is the first working, demonstrable indigenously designed micro-GPU from a university in India." The same report is equally precise about the limit: "The current system runs on a Spartan-7 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), rather than as a standalone silicon chip." The target use is low-cost embedded displays, such as e-rickshaw dashboards, navigation terminals for small fishing boats and e-book readers. It is not an AI accelerator and nobody on the team said it was.
The next step, per ET, is "an 8-16 core vector-style graphics processor architecture with an optimized compiler and graphics software toolchain" and eventually a 65nm ASIC. On r/IITDelhi, the thread (182 upvotes, the week's most-upvoted good-news post across the IIT subs we checked) split between pride and realism: "Moving from lab to industry and then to actual use is so difficult." The best reply: expecting instant industry adoption from a student project "is like saying I've got into IIT now give me that 5 cr jane street ppo."
Why it matters: India's chip push has been about fabs and packaging. The toolchain and architecture work (the part a student can actually do) is where the skills shortage is, and an MTech project that ships a working pipeline is a better recruiting signal than any headline.
The research week: a phone camera that sees attomoles, plastic in a national highway, and a steering wheel that feels your grip
TL;DR: Six IITs, six results a student can explain at dinner. Each with the caveat that comes with it.
IIT Kharagpur's sensor lets an ordinary smartphone camera detect attomolar traces
A photonic-crystal platform built with the University of Illinois "can increase the interaction between light and matter by nearly 1,300 times and detect substances at the attomolar level". The paper, led by Prof Shivakiran Bhaktha with Prof Brian T Cunningham, is in Advanced Optical Materials and made the journal's cover. Caveat: the paper came out in July; this week was the institute's announcement.
IIT (BHU)'s waste-plastic bitumen is now on NH-44
A pilot stretch near Jhansi uses a wet-process waste-plastic modified bitumen developed at IIT (BHU) under a road ministry programme. TOI reports it could cut conventional bitumen use by about 4% and cost around 20% less. IIT (BHU) will monitor the stretch, which is the honest part: road materials prove themselves over monsoons, not press releases.
IIT Palakkad's steering wheel knows when you let go
Associate Professor Sreenath Vijayakumar and technical superintendent Pinku Sebastian built a touch-sensor wheel that detects "where and how a driver holds the wheel, without using cameras or capturing images", and tells two-handed, one-handed and prolonged no-hand driving apart. No cameras means no in-cabin video, which is the privacy argument driver-monitoring systems keep losing. It is a prototype; no paper was named.
IIT (ISM) Dhanbad took a neuromorphic chip to SEMICON India
Dr Rajeev Kumar Ranjan's team designed a brain-inspired chip aimed at smart glasses for the visually impaired and, eventually, mineral-detection devices. The report itself adds that "the chip itself is not a machine for detecting rare earth elements or critical minerals", so ignore any headline that says it is.
IIT Gandhinagar undergraduates placed second at the Intel Cup
Miloni Thakkar and Mitwa Goswami built TrustGate, which combines network traffic with physical sensor data to spot attacks on critical infrastructure. Same week, IIT Gandhinagar signed semiconductor and AI MoUs with Taipei Tech, Taiwan Tech and National Central University on a trip made at the invitation of Taiwan's Ministry of Education.
IIT Jodhpur is recording languages before they go quiet
Dr Gurujegan Murugesan's group at the School of Liberal Arts is documenting the Bhil language in the Thar, a rare number system in Mundari, and Tamil among migrant families in Switzerland. His line is the best sentence of the research week: "When a language becomes endangered, it is not only the language that is at risk." In a week when r/IITMadras's most-commented thread was titled "Please ban humanities from our IIT's", it is worth noticing what an IIT humanities school actually does.
Careers Watch: IIT-linked money went to one AI giant and a row of hardware seedlings. The middle was empty
TL;DR: Of the $203.4 million Indian startups raised between 21 and 25 September, roughly $85 million went to companies with a verified IIT founder or incubator. Almost all of it was one round.
| Startup | IIT link | Round | Sector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ema | Founder Surojit Chatterjee, IIT Kharagpur (2021 profile) | $77M Series B (lead: Creaegis) | Enterprise AI agents | Entrackr, 24 Sep |
| GalaxEye | IIT Madras-incubated | ₹63.84 cr, government RDI Fund, optionally convertible debentures | Satellites (optical + SAR) | BW Disrupt, 26 Sep |
| ByteAsk | Founders Anirudha Kulkarni and Pratyush Saini, IIT Delhi CS | $1M pre-seed (Y Combinator, Entrepreneur First) | AI coding agents for C/C++ | AIM, 24 Sep |
| YNOS | IIT Madras-incubated; founded by IITM Prof Thillai Rajan A. | ₹2.12 cr (Gnan Circle Ventures) | Startup data and analytics | The Hindu, 22 Sep |
| Hathor, Quanstra, Triolt, Carbelim | IITM Unicorn Frontier Fund portfolio | ~₹55 cr combined, split undisclosed | Rockets, quantum, batteries, carbon capture | Raksha Anirveda, 27 Sep |
Inc42's weekly tally puts it bluntly: "Ema's $77 Mn round alone contributing 86% to the sector's total haul" of AI funding. Strip Ema out and IIT-linked money this week was a $1 million pre-seed, a ₹2 crore cheque for a data platform, government debt and an institutional fund's first cheques, most of it into hardware and deep tech. No IIT-linked company raised a Series A.
The hiring read: Put this beside the deep dive and a pattern appears. The best-known company breaking offers was hiring in volume, with 25 to 35 offers at some campuses in the spring. Oracle, named by campus sources, is also cutting about 3,000 people in India, "including recent graduates". The ones hiring are narrow: Citadel says its roughly 180-person quant group will grow at a "healthy" double-digit rate, and Amazon is calling laid-off staff back for AI roles. Specialist demand is up, generalist demand is down, and early-stage hardware is where new jobs are being funded. If you are in third year, that is your internship strategy in one sentence.
Also this week: IIT Madras alumnus Arvind Subramanian joined Axis Bank's board as an additional independent director until 2030. And Moneycontrol ran a piece on the CTOs of OpenAI's applications business and Anthropic, neither of whom studied at an IIT. Both facts are true at once. For live openings at the IITs themselves, see our IIT recruitment tracker; for fellowships and competitions with deadlines, the Deadline Desk.
The calendar: NIRF is now 23 days late, and GATE's regular window has shut
- NIRF 2026: still not released. Last year's rankings came out on 4 September. As of Sunday, nirfindia.org's 2026 ranking pages return 404, and there is no announced date. Articles headlined "NIRF 2026" with IIT ranks are recycling 2025 data.
- GATE 2027: regular registration closed on Sunday, 27 September, with no extension announced. Late-fee registration runs to 5 October. IIT Madras is organising it and has added a Robotics and Automation paper. Exams are on 6, 7, 13, 14, 20 and 21 February 2027.
- JAM 2027: IIT Kharagpur has formally extended registration to 19 October, settling last week's confusion between the brochure and the website. Exam: 14 February 2027.
- IIT Delhi's director search has opened. The Education Ministry has advertised the post; applications close 31 October. IIT Madras and IIT Indore director searches are also open.
The trend: the IITs are learning to act as one system, slowly
Look at this week's institutional moves together, not separately. Twenty-three placement offices voted as one committee to freeze out 22 recruiters. A Board chairman from IIT Palakkad was sent to chair IIT Bombay's inquiry. The Education Ministry reminded every institution that "HEIs shall immediately report every student suicide or unnatural death to police authorities". The student-suicide data compiled for Parliament was reported at the level of all 23 IITs, not one campus. And IIT Madras's incubator now draws three quarters of its founders from outside IIT Madras.
For most of their history the IITs have behaved as 23 separate brands that share an entrance exam. That is changing, unevenly. Collective action is how the placement committee got any say over Oracle, and a cross-IIT panel is how IIT Bombay is trying to make its inquiry credible. But collective action has a cost: it is slower, it is quieter (no named list, no public report yet), and it can be quietly undone, as the 2017 reversal shows. The test for both stories is the same, and it comes in the next fortnight: whether the committee's letters go out by 30 September, and whether IIT Bombay's panel publishes what it finds.
Across the 23 IITs this week
Stories that did not earn a full section but round out the 23-IIT picture. Every campus checked against its own news pages, Google News and regional coverage.
Older IITs (Bombay–Kharagpur cohort)
- IIT Bombay: The case above, and the placement-committee ruling in the deep dive. Outside those, a quiet week on its own press page.
- IIT Delhi: The micro-GPU (above). Australs 2027, the Asia-Pacific university debating championship, is coming to IIT Delhi next June, the first time in India in its 52-year history, with 300+ debaters and adjudicators from 21 countries. Rendezvous runs 28 September to 1 October, with an official Pokémon GO event on campus.
- IIT Madras: The ₹450 crore fund (above). Also a ₹3.30 crore construction-robotics lab funded by Bechtel India, and the Global Hyperloop Competition folds into Shaastra from 2027.
- IIT Kanpur: The medical-school story from last week grew a budget. Rakesh Gangwal's commitment to the Gangwal School now totals ₹400 crore, per Financial Express (the date of the new ₹300 crore pledge is not given), and the Wadhwani Innovation Network put $5 million over five years into a medtech centre. No MBBS announcement.
- IIT Kharagpur: The smartphone sensor (above). Also leads the AI modelling in HEADS, a two-year NIMHANS project building depression screening in Kannada, Hindi, Bengali, Assamese and English with 4,500 participants, and signed a five-year pact to train railway officials on Vande Bharat systems.
Second-generation IITs
- IIT Roorkee: Hosted the Principal Scientific Adviser's review of RuTAG 2.0 rural-technology projects on 24–25 September. Thomso runs 9–11 October (our guide).
- IIT Guwahati: The AIPC meeting behind the deep dive was held here. With Northeast Frontier Railway, launched Project DRISHTI, an AI camera system that checks freight-wagon doors, locks and seals as trains pass.
- IIT (BHU) Varanasi: The NH-44 plastic-bitumen pilot (above), and an MoA with NHPC on hydropower R&D, signed 23 September.
- IIT Hyderabad: Launched a four-week Applied AI certification starting 24 October, at ₹45,000–50,000 plus taxes. Prof B Umashankar received the International Geosynthetics Society Award.
- IIT Indore: Prof Neelima Satyam won the American Geophysical Union's Devendra Lal Memorial Medal.
- IIT Bhubaneswar: Odisha secured approval for a ₹452 crore power-electronics hub with IIT Bhubaneswar, with the state putting in ₹125 crore (announced 19 September).
- IIT Gandhinagar: TrustGate at the Intel Cup and the Taiwan MoUs (both above).
- IIT Ropar: Quiet week. We checked its site, Google News in English and Hindi, and the Tribune. The only nearby item, an MTech agreement with the Army Air Defence College, was first reported on 14 September.
- IIT Jodhpur: The language-documentation work (above).
- IIT Mandi: The School of Management's AiXcelrate 4.0 AI-leadership conclave ran 19–20 September.
- IIT Patna: Its incubation centre ran rural-entrepreneur drives in Gaya and, with the ICAR litchi research centre, in Muzaffarpur, under the SBI Foundation's GramPro programme.
- IIT (ISM) Dhanbad: The neuromorphic chip (above). Hindustan Copper's chairman visited TEXMiN, the institute's mining-technology hub, on 21 September.
Newest IITs
- IIT Bhilai: Hosted BIOSPAN 2026, a national biological-sciences symposium, on 24–26 September, with keynotes from NIBMG's founding director and NCBS's director. Patrika profiled its smart-mining research.
- IIT Dharwad: Quiet week. We checked its news page, Google News in English and Kannada, Deccan Herald, Star of Mysore and The Hindu's Karnataka pages. Its latest news item is Engineers' Day on 17 September.
- IIT Jammu: Seventh convocation on 26 September: 420 degrees, including 209 B.Tech and 64 PhDs. The President's Gold Medal went to Vivek Kumar Shandilya of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering.
- IIT Palakkad: The steering wheel (above), plus its eighth industry-academia conclave on 25–26 September with the director of the Central Manufacturing Technology Institute, Bengaluru, as chief guest. Its Board chairman is also chairing the IIT Bombay probe panel.
- IIT Goa: Quiet week. We checked its news page, Google News, Herald Goa, Navhind Times and The Goan. Visvesvaraya-scheme PhD applications close 30 September. Nothing new on the permanent campus.
- IIT Tirupati: Quiet week. We checked its site, Google News in English and Telugu, The Hans India and Deccan Chronicle. MS and PhD applications for the January 2027 cycle are open until 12 October.
Coming next
| Date | What |
|---|---|
| 28 Sep – 1 Oct | Rendezvous, IIT Delhi's cultural fest |
| From 28 Sep | The IIT Bombay student's parents say they will resume their hunger strike at Azad Maidan |
| ~30 Sep | Seven-day deadline for the IIT Bombay committee's report; AIPC letters to the 22 companies due |
| 30 Sep | IIT Goa Visvesvaraya PhD applications close |
| 5 Oct | GATE 2027 late-fee registration closes |
| 9–11 Oct | Thomso, IIT Roorkee |
| 10–11 Oct | IIT Bombay's rescheduled mid-semester exams |
| 12 Oct | IIT Tirupati MS/PhD (January cycle) applications close |
| 19 Oct | JAM 2027 registration closes |
| Any day | NIRF 2026 |
FAQ
Which companies have the IITs barred from campus placements?
The All IITs Placement Committee has not named them. It says 22 companies will face two placement seasons of "non-cooperation" for not honouring more than 150 offers to the Class of 2026. The Economic Times (24 September) and NDTV (26 September) report, citing campus and faculty sources, that Oracle is among them, with about 40 unhonoured offers. In June, ET named Oracle, Interview Kickstart and SuperAGI among 10-plus firms given an ultimatum, but whether the last two are in the final 22 has not been confirmed.
Is it a ban or a blacklist?
The committee is deliberately calling it "non-cooperation", not blacklisting. The companies will not be allowed into IIT campus placement drives for two seasons, but when the IITs barred firms in December 2025 those firms could still hire IIT graduates off campus.
What can a student do if their IIT placement offer was revoked?
Report it in writing to your placement office so it is counted in the committee's case list, which is still being compiled. Ask the company for at least the three months' salary the committee demanded in June. Keep your offer letter, acceptance and revocation messages: under Section 5 of the Indian Contract Act a proposal cannot be revoked after acceptance is communicated, and Section 73 provides compensation for breach, though whether a specific letter is binding depends on its conditions. Opt in to the cross-referral process, and ask your placement office whether you can re-register for the 2026-27 season. This is not legal advice.
Has anyone been arrested in the IIT Bombay student death case?
No arrest had been reported as of Sunday 27 September. The professor named in the FIR has been removed as a dean and sent on leave, the Crime Branch has recorded 20 statements, and a 10-member committee set up by the Board on 23 September was given seven days to report. Being named in an FIR is not a finding of guilt.
Have the NIRF 2026 rankings been released?
No. As of 27 September 2026 the 2026 ranking pages on nirfindia.org return 404, and no release date has been announced. Last year's rankings were released on 4 September.
What is the last date for GATE 2027 and JAM 2027 registration?
GATE 2027's regular registration closed on 27 September; late-fee registration runs until 5 October 2026. JAM 2027 registration has been extended to 19 October 2026, with the exam on 14 February 2027.
Which IITs had news this week?
We checked all 23 individually. Nineteen had in-window news: Bombay, Delhi, Madras, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Roorkee, Guwahati, BHU, Hyderabad, Indore, Bhubaneswar, Gandhinagar, Jodhpur, Mandi, Patna, Dhanbad, Bhilai, Jammu and Palakkad. Four (Ropar, Dharwad, Goa and Tirupati) had quiet weeks, each checked against its own pages and regional coverage before we said so.
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