The IIT Week · 28 September – 4 October 2026 · Week 40 · All 23 IITs checked
Times Higher Education published its 2027 world rankings on Wednesday, 30 September, and ranked 143 Indian institutions. Five of them are IITs. The best of the five, IIT Indore, sits in the 651–700 band, behind 12 other Indian institutions, from IISc and Saveetha down to Symbiosis and UPES, and level with three more (THE 2027 table). The seven oldest IITs are not in the table at all, by their own choice: they walked out of THE in 2020 and have not walked back. India's own ranking, NIRF, would settle the argument at home, and it is now a month later than last year's.
That is the shape of the week. Outsiders kept grading the IITs. TIME put an IIT Kharagpur graduate who builds rockets on its TIME100 Next list. Mumbai police spent most of two days questioning IIT Bombay's director and the professor named in an FIR. The Delhi High Court told a JEE candidate that sympathy is not an eligibility rule. The IITs' own report cards, meanwhile, were all late: NIRF 2026, IIT Bombay's internal committee report, and IIT Delhi's inquiry, which has now been extended twice.
Below: the rankings deep dive, the week's wins with names, the research, a Careers Watch in which two IIT engineers were cleared to run two of India's largest private banks on the same day, and a line for every one of the 23 IITs. If your campus had a good week, wear it.
The deep dive: THE ranked 143 Indian universities. Five are IITs, and the best of them is at 651–700
TL;DR: IISc is India's top entry at =254. The five IITs that appear are all second-generation; Indore slipped, Gandhinagar and Mandi climbed. The seven oldest IITs are still boycotting THE, eleven others are simply absent, and India's own NIRF 2026 has not been published.
THE's headline for India was size. "India is second most represented country, with 143 universities ranked", its release said, up from 128 a year ago (Indian Express). Depth was another matter. "India has three institutions in the global top 500 this year — IISc, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences and Shoolini University of Biotechnology and Management Sciences. This is down from four in the 2026 rankings", ET Education reported. No Indian institution made the top 200. IISc, at =254, was in the 201–250 band last year.
The five IITs in the table
| IIT | 2027 band | 2026 band | Move | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IIT Indore | 651–700 | 501–600 | Down | THE 2027, THE 2026 |
| IIT Patna | 701–800 | 601–800 | Roughly level | Careers360, THE 2026, IIT Patna statement |
| IIT Gandhinagar | 801–1000 | 1001–1200 | Up | Careers360, THE 2026 |
| IIT Mandi | 801–1000 | 1001–1200 | Up | Careers360, THE 2026 |
| IIT Ropar | 1001–1200 | 1001–1200 | Level | Careers360, THE 2026 |
IIT Patna's own statement says it "has retained its position in the 701-800 rank band". THE's 2026 table actually had it in a wider 601–800 band, so "level" is the fair word. IIT Indore's fall is real: its 2027 band sits entirely below last year's.
Who is missing, and why
Eighteen IITs are not in the table. Seven of them chose that. "Seven IITs — Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee — opted out of THE’s World University Rankings in 2020, raising concerns over transparency and the ranking parameters", the Hindustan Times noted this week. Both HT and India Today report that BITS Pilani followed in January 2026. Nothing published this week suggests the boycott is ending.
The other eleven absentees (Hyderabad, BHU, Dhanbad, Bhubaneswar, Jodhpur and the six newest IITs) are not on record as boycotting anything, and no coverage explains why they are not listed. THE ranks only institutions that submit data and pass its thresholds, so the honest reading is that they did not enter or did not qualify, and nobody has said which.
Why the methodology fight matters
The IITs left over methodology, and this year's table made their case for them. On THE's research-quality measure, "IISc ... was placed 64th among 143 Indian institutions ... with a score of 51.5. Galgotias University in Greater Noida scored 67 and ranked 23rd. Amity University, Noida, scored 76.9" (Hindustan Times). THE has, in part, conceded the point. On 30 September its global affairs officer Phil Baty said the 2028 edition would bring "a cap on institutional self-citations and changes to the research-quality metrics to reduce the influence of citation impact" (same report).
For a student, the practical read is simple. THE's IIT list tells you which IITs entered THE, not which IITs are best. For the older IITs, QS is the global table they still sit in; our QS 2027 breakdown and combined QS-plus-NIRF view are the better comparison.
And India's own ranking is a month late
As of Sunday 4 October, nirfindia.org still announces the 2025 release and has no 2026 rankings page. The 2025 rankings came out on 4 September 2025. On 29 September Education Times reported that "the Ministry of Education has not confirmed an exact release date for NIRF Ranking 2026", with data submission having closed on 16 March. Its first-week-of-October estimate is its own, not the ministry's. Until NIRF lands, the only fresh ranking with an IIT in it is one that 18 IITs are not in.
The wins: an IIT Kharagpur rocket founder on TIME's list, a quantum link at Gandhinagar, four IIT researchers honoured
TL;DR: Skyroot's Pawan Kumar Chandana (IIT Kharagpur, 2012) is on TIME100 Next 2026. IIT Gandhinagar was one end of a 5.56 km open-air quantum key link. Four IIT faculty won research awards, and IIT Ropar's director received a medal last held by Kalam and Sivan.
TIME published its TIME100 Next list on 30 September. Its entry for Chandana, written by Jeffrey Kluger, rests on one launch: "In July, Skyroot’s Vikram-1 rocket successfully carried two customer satellites to orbit, becoming India’s first private company to achieve that feat" (TIME). TIME adds that Skyroot "currently employs more than 1,000 people and has a valuation of $1.1 billion". TIME's text does not mention IIT Kharagpur. India Today fills that in: he "completed a dual degree in Mechanical Engineering and Thermal Science and Engineering in 2012" before nearly six years at ISRO. The Hans India notes Skyroot became India's first space-tech unicorn after a raise of nearly $60 million in May.
Why it matters past the headline: Skyroot is a 1,000-person company building rockets in Hyderabad, and its CEO left Kharagpur with a dual degree only six years before founding it.
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At IIT Gandhinagar, the work was quieter. On the night of 27–28 September, QNu Labs, BISAG-N and IIT Gandhinagar "sent quantum-encoded light between BISAG-N and IIT Gandhinagar, which are 5.56 km apart", with an error rate below 5 per cent and keys generated at 230–260 bits per second (India Today, DD India). The hardware is QNu's; IIT Gandhinagar was one end of the link and a partner in the test, which was reported this week.
| Who | IIT | What | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pawan Kumar Chandana (alumnus, 2012) | Kharagpur | TIME100 Next 2026, for Skyroot's Vikram-1 orbital launch | TIME, 30 Sep |
| IITGN with QNu Labs and BISAG-N | Gandhinagar | 5.56 km open-air quantum key distribution test, error rate under 5% | India Today, 4 Oct |
| Prof Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi | Delhi | Careers360 Faculty Research Award, engineering (public category) | Careers360, 1 Oct |
| Prof Debabrata Maiti | Bombay | Careers360 Faculty Research Award, chemistry | Careers360, 1 Oct |
| Prof Sheshadri Chatterjee | Kharagpur | Careers360 Faculty Research Award, business and management | Careers360, 1 Oct |
| Prof Shantanu Desai | Hyderabad | Careers360 Faculty Research Award, earth and planetary sciences | Careers360, 1 Oct |
| Prof Rajeev Ahuja, director | Ropar | Systems Society of India's National Systems Gold Medal | Indian Express, 29 Sep |
| spAts student society | Kharagpur | Ran NSSC 2026, the National Students' Space Challenge, 2–4 Oct | Telegraph Edugraph |
Two caveats, because they matter. The Careers360 awards (54 researchers, ₹50,000 each) are given and reported by the same publisher. Prof Ahuja's medal was presented at a conference on 21–23 September and announced this week; per the Indian Express, "Kalam received the medal in 1997, while Sivan was a recipient in 2018". NSSC's billing as Asia's largest student astrotech fest is the organisers' own, and no results had been published by Sunday. Student competition wins were thin this week: we found no IIT team result from a national or international contest published inside the window.
IIT Bombay, week three: the director and the professor were questioned for most of two days. Still no arrest, and no committee report
TL;DR: Police recorded the statements of the professor named in the FIR (on 1 October, per TOI and The Hindu) and of Director Shireesh Kedare on 2 October, for eight to ten hours each. Both deny the casteist-remark allegations. Eight students began a hunger strike with ten demands. The institute's own committee has not published a report.
The second-year BTech student died on 18 September. This week the investigation reached the top of the institute. The Crime Branch "recorded the statement of professor Suryanarayana Doolla for nearly eight hours" on Thursday 1 October, per the Times of India; The Hindu puts it at 10 hours, and the Economic Times dates it Friday. Per sources quoted by the Economic Times, he said "he had followed the guidelines and procedures prescribed by the institute while dealing with the student" and denied using caste-based words. He is named in the FIR; being named is not a finding of guilt.
On Friday it was the director. The Indian Express reports police "recorded the statement of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay Director Shireesh Kedare over nearly 10 hours", and that both men denied the allegations. The Times of India says police wanted to know "if the standard operating procedure (SOP) for dealing with students caught copying using unauthorised material during examinations was followed in his case", and that experts had still not been able to get into the student's phone.
Statements from 40 people had been recorded by 30 September (PTI via ThePrint). A police officer told the Indian Express the next step could be "prosecuting the professor if evidence is found, booking him for another charge, or filing a closure report if no evidence is found."
That SOP question can be answered on paper. The Indian Express found that "IIT Bombay's formal rules for students caught 'copying' do not mention any provision for an 'apology letter'", which the student wrote; the published procedure says "a fresh answer book should be issued to the student, and the student should be allowed to resume writing the exam." The Times of India reports the same rule. IIT Bombay did not respond to the Indian Express.
On campus, eight students began a hunger strike on Gandhi Jayanti, the 15th day of protests at the main gate (Times of India). Their charter, published in full by India Today, includes the "immediate resignation of the Director", and asks for the professor's suspension and for the internal committee to be dissolved and rebuilt with no current IIT Bombay employee or student on it. India Today reported the administration had not officially responded. The student's parents were on hunger strike at Azad Maidan from the last week of September, including on Monday 28 September (The Hindu); by 3 October police had refused permission to continue there (The Hindu), and the family plans to seek fresh permission (Times of India).
The campus is split on what comes next. A post on r/IITBombay on Sunday put the protesters' case: "The real question is not how many students are still sitting there. The question is whether the issues they are raising have been answered." It asked the administration to "publish a point-by-point status report on the demands" (r/IITBombay). A rival post the same day was titled "Justice Corner Cannot Become a Permanent Political Stage at the Cost of Campus Life" (r/IITBombay). What to watch: the rescheduled mid-semester exams on 10–11 October (India Today), the first since the student's death.
IIT Delhi: an FIR after a scholar's death, and an inquiry extended for the second time
TL;DR: A PhD scholar found injured in a rented room in Munirka on 18 August died at AIIMS on 3 October; police registered an abetment-of-suicide FIR the next day, citing a Supreme Court direction. The panel on the August death of an MSc student now reports on 10 October.
Police said the scholar "remained under treatment for more than 45 days and expired at AIIMS (Trauma Centre) on October 3. The FIR has been registered pursuant to the directions of the Supreme Court and on the basis of a complaint received from the Security Officer, IIT Delhi" (Hindustan Times). The FIR, number 243/2026, was registered at Kishangarh police station under Section 108 of the BNS (India Today). Police say the incident was off campus and that the family and witnesses raised no allegation against anyone. He has not been named, and we will not name him.
Separately, IIT Delhi's five-member committee on the death of a 31-year-old MSc Physics student in August, chaired by retired Delhi High Court judge Mukta Gupta, missed its 30 September deadline. It now has until 10 October, "marking the panel's second extension" (Hindustan Times, Times of India).
The national picture arrived the same week. A survey by the Supreme Court's National Task Force of 2.43 lakh students across higher-education institutions found that "Nine percent reported experiencing suicidal thoughts often or very often in the past year" (New Indian Express). The task force calls the findings preliminary, because the sample is not representative, and its final report is due by 31 October.
The research week: what fraud does to educated minds, a sun in a box, and the price of ethanol
IIT Madras: the victims of financial fraud are often the people you would least expect
TL;DR: Interviews with 33 victims show fraudsters engineer panic, not ignorance.
The study is qualitative and small, and its finding is pointed. IIT Madras researchers interviewed "33 victims — 22 men and 11 women, including 12 senior citizens—across Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, New Delhi and Mumbai" (IIT Madras). Victims were often highly educated professionals. Fraudsters created an "engineered brain freeze", and losses ran "from a few thousand rupees to more than ₹1 crore". Prof Nandan Sudarsanam told The Hindu: "Even highly educated and digitally experienced individuals can become vulnerable when fraudsters exploit fear, stress, and urgency." The scams included fake SEBI-registered platforms and "digital arrest" calls (Indian Express). The paper, led by P. Kandaswamy, a retired IPS officer, and Prof Sudarsanam, appeared in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications in June; IIT Madras announced it this week.
IIT Kanpur will build India's first sun simulator for concentrated solar cells
TL;DR: A test rig India does not yet have, led by Prof Ashish Garg.
IIT Kanpur signed with Bengaluru's NexPV Energy Systems to build a simulator that lets concentrated-PV modules "be tested and characterised at the end of production lines in India, a capability that does not currently exist in the country" (pv magazine India). The project is led by Prof Ashish Garg of Sustainable Energy Engineering. Concentrated PV uses lenses to focus sunlight on tiny cells; NexPV's director told the Times of India the cell area needed "is approximately 0.1% of the corresponding solar collection area." No cost has been disclosed.
IIT Delhi puts a number on what E85 must cost, and gets a pollution contract
TL;DR: A flex-fuel white paper, and a ₹19.22 crore, five-year air-quality project.
The white paper by Prof P. M. V. Subbarao and research scholar Saptashish Deb works an example: "E85 would need to cost around Rs 75 a litre – 25 percent below petrol" to match petrol's running cost per km. "The paper stresses that this is an illustrative example and not a recommended national pricing benchmark" (ThePrint). It also flags two-wheelers, which "account for more than 60% of India's petrol consumption" (Autocar Professional). The October launch of a 100% ethanol Toyota Innova that featured in the coverage is Nitin Gadkari's claim, not the paper's.
The same week, Delhi's Cabinet approved a five-year source-apportionment project with IIT Delhi, "estimated to cost ₹19.22 crore", that will track the sources of PM2.5 and PM10 in real time (Hindustan Times, PTI via Rediff). HT notes Delhi's last such studies, by IIT Kanpur in 2016 and TERI in 2018, are outdated.
IIT Indore fixed a gender error in machine speech translation
TL;DR: A correction layer that needs no retraining.
English-to-Hindi speech translation often renders a woman speaking as a man. A team led by Dr Chandresh Kumar Maurya built HGAST, which corrects that after the fact. "For female speakers, accuracy increased from 83.15 per cent to 98.88 per cent in Hindi", with similar gains in Gujarati and Marathi (PTI via ThePrint). It is the kind of unglamorous fix that decides whether Indian-language AI is usable by half its users.
Careers Watch: two IIT engineers will run two of India's largest private banks. Startup money was thin
TL;DR: On 1 October the RBI cleared an IIT Kanpur chemical engineer for HDFC Bank and an IIT Kharagpur BTech for Kotak. The IIT-linked funding round of the week was Arivihan's $10 million.
| Who / what | IIT link | The signal | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anup Bagchi, MD and CEO of HDFC Bank for three years from 27 Oct | IIT Kanpur, chemical engineering | Top job at HDFC Bank, cleared by the RBI on 1 Oct | The Hindu, TOI |
| Anup Kumar Saha, next MD and CEO of Kotak Mahindra Bank | IIT Kharagpur, BTech | Replaces Ashok Vaswani, whose term ends 31 Dec | The Hindu |
| Arivihan, $10M Series A (Accel, Prosus Ventures) | Founders Ritesh Singh Chandel and Sonu Kumar, IIT Roorkee alumni | Edtech for school students; total raised above $15M | Business Standard |
| Pan IIT Amaravati Venture Fund, ₹500 crore | PanIIT alumni with the Andhra Pradesh government | Announced, not closed; deep-tech mandate | The News Mill |
| Kokasa, defence and aerospace systems | Founders Rahul Jain, Snehil Gautam, Vikalp Bagdi, IIT Bombay alumni | Launch; no round disclosed | BW Disrupt |
| IBM expands its research collaboration | IIT Bombay (since 2018) | Indic language models, multimodal AI; no money disclosed | IBM |
A note on IBM, because the headlines blurred it. The quantum-computing strand belongs to IISc. With IIT Bombay, IBM researchers "will continue to work alongside faculty and students to explore sovereign and Indic language model adaption, multimodal AI, as well as AI infrastructure and knowledge retrieval" (IBM, Indian Express). No funding, fellowship or lab figure was announced.
What is actually open to students: IMC Trading's two-day Women in Trading and Technology programme in Mumbai is "open to women pursuing full-time BTech, BE, Dual Degree or BS Mathematics programmes and graduating in 2029. Students from all 23 IITs" and BITS are eligible, with applications from 6 to 20 October (EdexLive). The new BITS Pilani–IIT Madras exchange comes with "tuition-fee waivers at the host institution" (Indian Express), and IIT Delhi's pact with AcSIR lets students take courses at either "without requiring separate admission or payment of tuition fees" (ANI).
The read: the hiring signal this week came from the top of the pyramid, not the bottom. Two IIT engineers will soon run two of the country's biggest private lenders, while startup money, the kind that hires freshers in volume, barely touched IIT-linked companies.
The calendar: GATE's free window shuts on Monday, design entrances open, and a court on JEE eligibility
GATE 2027. The organising institute, IIT Madras, says "the GATE 2027 regular registration has been extended to 5 th October 2026 (without any late fee)"; late-fee registration runs to 12 October and the exams are on 6–7, 13–14 and 20–21 February (GATE 2027). Some headlines called 5 October a late-fee date; the official site does not. Do not delete the DigiLocker account you registered with; our DigiLocker guide explains why.
UCEED and CEED 2027. IIT Bombay opened both on 1 October. Regular-fee registration closes on 31 October and both exams are on Sunday 17 January (UCEED, CEED). UCEED is now open to Class XII students from any stream, including commerce and arts.
JAM and PhD admissions. JAM 2027 applications close on 19 October (JAM 2027). IIT Madras's PhD and MS (Research) applications for January 2027 close on 30 October (Careers360).
The court. The Delhi High Court dismissed a JEE Main 2025 candidate's plea for a supernumerary seat at IIT Delhi. Justice Jasmeet Singh held that "sympathy or the possibility of an academic loss cannot substitute for satisfaction of the eligibility requirements prescribed for admission to the IITs" (LiveLaw).
The trend: everyone is grading the IITs except the IITs
Count the scorers this week. A British magazine ranked five IITs. An American one named an IIT graduate a rising star. Mumbai police are testing whether IIT Bombay followed its own exam rules. A Supreme Court task force measured student distress across campuses. The Delhi High Court restated JEE eligibility. A feature in India Today on the IIT medical schools at Kanpur, Kharagpur and Madras carried IIT Madras director V. Kamakoti's line that "Any technology institution must start a medical school", which is a claim about what an IIT should be.
The IITs' own instruments were the ones running late: NIRF, the IIT Bombay committee, the IIT Delhi panel. There is a fair case for staying out of THE, and this week's research-quality table strengthens it. But an institution that sits out the global table, and whose national table is overdue, is asking to be taken on trust. The students at IIT Bombay's main gate are asking for the same thing everyone else is doing to the IITs this week: a report card, published, point by point.
Across the 23 IITs this week
Stories that did not earn a full section but round out the 23-IIT picture. Every campus was looked up individually on its own news pages, Google News and regional papers.
Older IITs (Bombay–Kharagpur cohort)
- IIT Bombay: The case and IBM collaboration above; UCEED and CEED opened. A traffic study by an IIT Bombay faculty member for the contractor backed Bengaluru's Hebbal tunnel; IISc's transport lab called it biased, and the study itself says it does not represent IIT Bombay's views (The Hindu).
- IIT Delhi: The FIR, the inquiry, the flex-fuel paper and the pollution project (all above), plus the AcSIR pact. PGIMER Chandigarh signed with IIT Delhi to build an AI breast-cancer screening tool trained on Indian patients (TOI); the IIT Delhi team is not named.
- IIT Madras: The fraud study, the BITS exchange and GATE (above). With Ashok Leyland, launched GET ZET, a 40-city electric-truck drive running to February 2027 (Autocar Professional), and with the Human Welfare Association, a project to authenticate GI-tagged crafts (IIT Madras).
- IIT Kanpur: The sun simulator (above). Signed a net-zero pact with the Swachha Andhra Corporation on 2 October (TOI). Alumnus Anup Bagchi heads to HDFC Bank.
- IIT Kharagpur: Pawan Kumar Chandana on TIME100 Next, NSSC 2026, and alumnus Anup Kumar Saha to Kotak (all above). It also organises JAM 2027.
Second-generation IITs (Roorkee, Guwahati, BHU, Hyderabad, Indore, Bhubaneswar, Gandhinagar, Ropar, Jodhpur, Mandi, Patna, Dhanbad)
- IIT Roorkee: Thomso runs 9–11 October (Thomso; our guide). Dehradun's civic body and IIT Roorkee plan a fresh study of more than five lakh tonnes of waste at the Sheeshambara site (TOI). Arivihan's founders are alumni.
- IIT Guwahati: Its Department of Design hosted the first INDIS 2026 design-and-innovation conference, 28–30 September, with MIT-ID Pune (ANI via The News Mill).
- IIT (BHU) Varanasi: Ran Traction 2026, a three-day venture-building programme, 2–4 October (The News Mill), and was asked to simulate junction redesigns on Lucknow's Green Corridor (TOI).
- IIT Hyderabad: Hosting the 17th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant from 4 October, the first in India (The Hindu). Researchers reported a lung-tissue bioink that steers stem cells toward lung cells (Research Matters). Prof Shantanu Desai's award is above.
- IIT Indore: The top IIT in THE 2027 and the HGAST work (above). Its DRISHTI CPS Foundation signed with IFCI Venture Capital Funds to connect startups to funding schemes (TOI).
- IIT Bhubaneswar: Hosted Odiapreneur 3.0, a state school hackathon with 192 students from 101 schools (Odisha Ray). The winners were school students.
- IIT Gandhinagar: The quantum link (above), and a three-year research MoU with Suzuki R&D Center India signed 28 September (DeshGujarat).
- IIT Ropar: In THE's 1001–1200 band, and its director's gold medal (above).
- IIT Jodhpur: A near-quiet week. ETV Bharat profiled its transportation lab's AI work on predicting congestion and crashes (ETV Bharat, Hindi).
- IIT Mandi: Up to 801–1000 in THE. A study reported by Divya Himachal finds about 15% of Himachal's buildings sit in landslide-risk zones, 35% in Shimla (Divya Himachal, Hindi); a separate team is testing low-cost sensors for landslide warnings (Amar Ujala).
- IIT Patna: 701–800 in THE. Opened a 500-computer lab on 2 October that doubles as an exam centre (TOI).
- IIT (ISM) Dhanbad: Signed a geologic-hydrogen MoU with ACME Cleantech and France's HYREVEAL (TOI); researchers hold a patent on a roughly ₹1,500 air cleaner that reuses filters from discarded N95 masks (ETV Bharat). Prabhat Khabar reported 1,088 students placed, with 275 offers above ₹20 LPA (Prabhat Khabar).
Newest IITs (Bhilai, Dharwad, Jammu, Palakkad, Goa, Tirupati)
- IIT Bhilai: Its Centre for Studies on Culture, Language and Traditions launched an NTPC-supported artist residency for Chhattisgarh's folk artists; applications close 31 October (News Riveting).
- IIT Dharwad: Quiet week. Its news page's latest item is from 17 September, and nothing turned up in Google News (English or Kannada) or the Karnataka papers.
- IIT Jammu: Signed an agreement with the School of Artillery, Deolali, on 1 October to award M.Tech degrees to officers on the Long Gunnery Staff Course (SSBCrack).
- IIT Palakkad: Its electrical engineering department ran a hands-on circuits workshop for 44 school students and nine teachers (The Hindu).
- IIT Goa: Quiet week. Nothing new on its site since recruitment notices, and nothing in Google News (English or Marathi) or the Goa papers.
- IIT Tirupati: Its director told Eenadu, at the PanIIT summit in Vijayawada, that Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu had suggested an IIT Tirupati branch campus in Amaravati and that it would happen soon (Eenadu, Telugu). That is a single report; no English outlet has carried it.
Coming next
| Date | What |
|---|---|
| Mon 5 Oct | GATE 2027 registration without late fee closes |
| From 5 Oct | The IIT Bombay student's parents seek fresh permission to resume their hunger strike at Azad Maidan |
| 4–9 Oct | Mercury conference (ICMGP 2026) at IIT Hyderabad |
| 6–20 Oct | IMC Trading Women in Trading and Technology applications |
| 9–11 Oct | Thomso, IIT Roorkee |
| 10 Oct | IIT Delhi inquiry report due |
| 10–11 Oct | IIT Bombay's rescheduled mid-semester exams |
| 12 Oct | GATE 2027 late-fee registration closes |
| 19 Oct | JAM 2027 applications close |
| 27 Oct | Anup Bagchi takes charge at HDFC Bank |
| 30–31 Oct | IIT Madras PhD/MS (January) applications close; UCEED and CEED regular registration closes; National Task Force report due to the Supreme Court |
| Not announced | NIRF 2026 |
FAQ
Which IITs are in the THE World University Rankings 2027?
Five: IIT Indore (651–700), IIT Patna (701–800), IIT Gandhinagar and IIT Mandi (801–1000) and IIT Ropar (1001–1200). IISc is India's top entry at =254. The rankings were published on 30 September 2026.
Why are IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi and IIT Madras not in the THE rankings?
Seven IITs (Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee) opted out of THE's World University Rankings in 2020, citing transparency and ranking parameters. They have not rejoined. Eleven other IITs are also absent without a stated reason.
When will NIRF 2026 be released?
No date has been announced. As of 4 October 2026 the NIRF site still shows the 2025 release, and the Ministry of Education had not confirmed a date. NIRF 2025 was released on 4 September 2025.
Has anyone been arrested in the IIT Bombay student death case?
No arrest had been reported as of 4 October 2026. Police recorded the statements of the professor named in the FIR on 1 October and of the director on 2 October; both deny the allegations. Police say the outcome could be prosecution, another charge or a closure report.
What is the last date for GATE 2027 registration?
Registration without a late fee closes on 5 October 2026. With a late fee it closes on 12 October. The exams are on 6–7, 13–14 and 20–21 February 2027.
Which IITs had news this week?
Twenty-one of 23. IIT Dharwad and IIT Goa had quiet weeks; every other IIT appears in this roundup with at least one sourced item.
Your IIT had a week? Campus hoodies for every IIT: Indore, Kharagpur, Bombay, Delhi, Madras, Kanpur, and the rest of the 23.
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