Announcement

The deadline for Spot admission for PhD application in online mode is Jan 31, 2025 (Friday), 05:00 PM. Go to "Apply Link".

Call for Spot admission for PhD Programme (July 2025) at the Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur: "Apply Link".


Applications are invited for PhD admission to July 2025 semester in the following PhD programme(s) at the Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering (SEE): Department Brochure

Please attend open-house session on 18th January at 4 pm to know more details about the admission process and research activities at the department.
Link: https://tinyurl.com/seeiitkphd2025 |  Meeting ID: 459 886 987 166  |  Passcode: pn3oM68t

Dates & links:

  • Open-house session: Jan 18, 2025 @ 4 pm
  • Application Deadline: Jan 31, 2025
  • Shortlisting & notification: Feb 07, 2025
  • Online/offline Interviews: Feb 22-28, 2025
  • Declaration of results: March 10, 2025

Eligibility Requirements:

  • The eligibility conditions given below are the absolute minimum. The department may prescribe any requirements over and above.

Important Resources for PG Students



Degree Department General Requirements
PhD in Engineering Sustainable Energy Engineering (i) A Master's degree in Engineering or Science with a minimum of 80 percent marks/8.0 CPI (CFTIs).

(ii) Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Science (4-year programme) with a minimum of 75 percent marks/7.5 CPI (CFTIs or Top 50 NIRF colleges).

*For final-year students only; not applicable to passed-out students.


List of CFTI: https://www.iitk.ac.in/doaa/pgadmission/assets/data/CFTI-list.pdf

List of Top 50 NIRF: https://www.nirfindia.org/Rankings/2024/OverallRanking.html |  https://www.nirfindia.org/Rankings/2024/EngineeringRanking.html

Financial Assistantships: Financial support (in the form of Institute Assistantship) is available to the regular (non-sponsored) students of the PhD programme amounting to Rs. 37000/- for the first two years, and thereafter, it is raised to Rs. 42000/- for another three years. The student is expected to carry out the assigned duties during the programme to maintain eligibility for continued financial support.

Students may also avail financial assistantship from external funding agencies (such as UGC/CSIR/NBHM/INSPIRE/DBT/ICAR/ICMR/PMRF etc.).

In addition to the above, several attractive fellowships from Industry/DAE/MNRE are also available.

General Information


Detailed information on PG programmes offered at IIT Kanpur is available at:

PG Manual

Indian Candidates:

  1. This admission is only for students in the final year of their programme .
  2. Financial support (Institute Assistantship/Scholarship) will be provided to non-sponsored PhD students.

How To Apply


Indian Candidates:

  • Indian Nationals can apply only through online mode of application. The deadline for application in online mode is Jan 31, 2025 (Friday), 05:00 PM. Please note that this is a hard deadline. No further extension would be made. Go to "Google form Link".