Landing a research internship at an IIT involves a focused approach. Here's a roadmap to increase your chances:

1. Target your interests:

• IITs have a vast range of research areas. Browse the faculty listings on each IIT's website to identify professors whose research aligns with your academic interests. Look for keywords in their profiles that resonate with you.

2. Explore internship opportunities:

• IIT websites: Most IITs have dedicated internship sections on their websites. Look for research internship programs or opportunities advertised by specific departments.
• National Academies: Indian National Science Academy (INSA), Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS), and National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) offer summer research fellowships at IITs. Application periods typically start around November.

3. Craft a strong application:

• CV: Tailor your CV to highlight relevant coursework, projects, and any research experience you have.
• SOP (Statement of Purpose): Write a compelling SOP that showcases your interest in the professor's research area. Briefly mention your relevant skills and how you can contribute to their project.
• Reach out directly: Consider contacting professors directly to express your interest in their research and inquire about potential internship opportunities.

Additional Tips:

• Stand out: If you have publications, presentations, or awards related to research, include them in your application.
• Preparation: Be prepared to discuss the professor's research in detail during the interview process. Demonstrate your eagerness to learn and contribute.
• Deadlines: Adhere to application deadlines strictly.

Here are some resources that might be helpful:

• IIT Internship Programs (individual websites)
• National Academies of Science Internship: National Academy of Sciences Summer Research Fellowships: [refer to a search engine for National Academy of Sciences Summer Research Fellowships]

Remember, perseverance is key. Apply to multiple opportunities and keep refining your application based on feedback. Good luck!

During my third year and second year of B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering), I got to work as a Summer Research Intern at IIT, Kanpur, and IIT, Bhubaneswar respectively. Along with these offers, during my third-year application process, I was selected for the same role at IIT Madras, IISc Bangalore, CSIR, Chennai (A premiere government research center). I was also shortlisted for an interview at IIT Bombay.

And all these internships weren’t procured in the same way. Let me explain.

The IITs, NITs, and IISc run various summer internship programs every year. These internships usually begin from mid of May and last up to mid of July(6–8 weeks usually). But the application process starts much earlier. It starts with the Indian Academy of Science portal opening in November of the previous year. The other programs usually have their deadline in the months of Februrary-March of the same year. The applicant needs to be constantly searching for these opportunities.

Here is a small sample of the programs I applied to, along with their deadlines:

1. Indian Academy of Science SRFP (November- December)
2. IIT Kanpur SURGE Program (Mid of February)
3. IISc Bangalore CeNSE Summer Program (End of February)
4. IIT Bombay MEMS (End of March)
5. CSIR, Chennai (Mid of March)
6. IIT Hyderabad SURE Program (End of February)
7. IIT Roorkee SPARK Program (End of March)
8. IIT Bhubaneswar, IIT Mandi, IIT Goa (During April)
9. IIT Madras (End of March)
10. IIT Delhi (Mid of April)

This isn’t an exhaustive list, but just a sample for the reader to comprehend the timeline and prepare for the application process.

These programs are coveted and success can’t be guaranteed, but one must apply in most of these to increase the odds of success.

Another way to secure these internships is through cold mailing (that is how I got my offer at IIT Madras). One needs to send a tailored mail to the Professor stating why he/she wants to work under him/her. A statement of purpose and Resume are recommended to be added.

Additional tips:

Getting a summer research internship during 3rd year might be difficult for some, so one must try from 2nd year itself. This will provide an experience of how the application process works, and if selected it will boost your experience and Resume, which in turn will make your 3rd-year application process a cakewalk. (This comes straight from my personal experience!)

Sometimes it is relatively easier to fetch a winter internship, but there aren’t many official programs for the same. So, one needs to try that by cold mailing. Also, grow your LinkedIn contacts. Sometimes a direct message to a Professor does help. You can also ask the Professors at your college to recommend your name to some of their colleagues at other colleges.

Prepare a well-structured Resume (1–2 pages) and write a compelling Statement of Purpose(SOP).

Maintaining a CGPA of 8.5 or above does help, so keep an eye on that too.

All these might sound a bit overwhelming at the beginning, but the experience you’ll get will be worth the grind.

Well, this pretty much sums up the process. Feel free to ask your doubts in the comment section or ping me on LinkedIn.

All the best.

Thanks!

I am an intern in IIT Hyderabad.

I cannot give a sure shot method to get an IIT Internship but I can tell my experience, just incase you need it.

Brief about me;

I am an Integrated M.Tech (computer science) student. Right now I am in my 5th and last year of this program. We have a project to do in the last whole year.

Like you, I also wanted to pursue my last year internship from some prestegious IITs. As IIT Hyderabad is the nearest college from my own university so I decided to apply there. I wrote many e-mails to different profs along with my proposal and C.V. But nothing was working. As I have made a good repo with my HOD. He wrote a recommendation letter to many profs. Of my research interest. From all of them only 1 person replied and that was the HOD of CS dept. at IITH. After couple of e-mail exchanges between them, MVP(HOD OF CS) told to send him(me) to IITH. I went the very next day my HOD informed this because it takes 5 hours to reach IITH from my university. I reached there and met MVP, he was very generous and humble person. After my interview he asked to grab the lunch from the IITH canteen and asked me if I want some money to have lunch. Usually IIT profs are not so humble and don’t give time to non-IIT. Being an HOD of whole dept. he gave me time. After lunch I reached at the HOD office at 3pm. I was assigned a guide under which I am doing my research Internship.

And yes, It is not a paid internship. I am not getting paid here because I just want to increase my skills and shape my future. If not getting paid internship in a prestegious institute is a deal breaker for you than its your loss my friend, and its a very big loss.

P.s: Simultainously I am doing an internship for which I am getting paid a handsome money.

By my story of IITH, I just want to convey that when you are student, don’t run behind money. Just try to focus on the skills, experiences and contacts.

~raj

(If you find any grammatical mistake, pardon me. I am writing it on cell phone and could not recheck the whole answer.

Thankyou

A lot of people have already talked about the various programs which can help you land internships in IITs. I am not going to repeat them.

The most important thing to understand is you will be doing the internship under the guidance of a faculty in IIT.

My suggestion would be to contact them directly and submit a formal agenda of what kind of project you are interested to do with the professor. The kind of offer you make in Google summer of code.

Here are few important steps:

1. Pick your favorite IIT.
2. Pick your department.
3. Go to the list of faculties. Scan through the list and find the professors you would be interested to work with owing to similar interests.
4. Usually the faculty list has their contact information. Make a note of that.

Prepare a proposal

The proposal should have clear information about:

1. Your area of interest
2. Your project if possible
3. Your personal information, college, CGPA(if it is good enough)
4. References/recommendations if any
5. Attach your resume

It is good if you can gather references from IIT graduates and mention them in your proposal. Be very formal and polite in your language. Check spellings and grammar.

Contacting/sending proposal to faculty

It is very important you know how to contact the faculty. The one thing I have learnt about contacting someone is be shameless about it. Leave no sources aside - be it email, phone, facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter etc.

1. Get in touch with any of your friend who is graduating from that IIT and knows the faculty. Ask him to put a word in the faculty’s ears about you and the internship opportunity. Ask him to add some good words like sincere and hard working about you. He can even help you get his personal email or mobile.
2. Call him if it is possible. Again don't be shy and let him know how you managed to get his contact. Be polite throughout the conversation.
3. Search for him on all social platforms. Send connection requests. Send messages with your proposal.
4. Send email

I forgot to mention. Faculties love ppts. If you can create a ppt for the proposal, it can make a greater impact.

It is always better to add recommendations from IIT graduates to your mail.

Once you send a mail to the professor, don’t wait for too long. It is better you send the mail or messages on sunday night. It is high probability that they check their mails on monday morning.

Once you are done with a faculty. Move to a different faculty. If possible propose different projects to different professors according to their area of interest.

Once you are done with an IIT, look for Faculties in other IITs, even the new ones. You can judge a good faculty by the quality of journals he has published. Try to read some of them if you can judge their quality.

I would also recommend to apply for internships in IISc, IIITs, BITS and the top NITs. They also have some good professors.

Don’t be too optimistic about the internship opportunity because a faculty is generally bombarded with such mails. However, you can try to standout your application.

This is a question to which I can personally relate. When I was in my second year of B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering), I was in pursuit of the same answer. I can finally tell you what helped me secure these internships now that I've completed two of them, one at IIT Kanpur (during my third year) and the other at IIT Bhubaneswar (during my second year). I also received offers during my third year from CSIR-SERC Chennai, CeNSE IISc Bangalore, and IIT Madras.

If you are currently in your first year of undergraduate, then you have more than enough time. Maybe focus more on your college life and make it wholesome. You should try to get involved in the various technical clubs and societies of your college, and figure out what excites you. You may be a student of Mechanical Engineering, but through these clubs, you can develop an interest in electronics, robotics, etc. So figure out patiently by exploring and experimenting.

The following part of the answer will be inclining towards my major: Mechanical Engineering, but will provide the essence to the students from other departments too.

For those who have just stepped into their sophomore year, build strong fundamental concepts. From a Mechanical Engineering perspective, I can say, study SOM (Strength of Materials), BTD (Basic Thermodynamics), and Fluid Mechanics with full rigour. Of these three, there is a good chance that you will find one of them to be excessively appealing. Thus, there you have it. Study the standard books, NPTEL courses, and other resources for that one subject.

If you like SOM, then try the simulation software, like ANSYS Workbench. For example, you read about Deflection in Cantilever beams, so try to simulate that in ANSYS. I hope you are getting the essence of what I’m saying. You should try your hands on MATLAB, it will be a very handy tool in every case.

Participate in technical contests organized by bodies such as ASME, SAE, ISHRAE, etc. Following these, you will start building relevant skills and a good-looking resume. Also, you can ask any Professor of your choice, if he/she has any sort of work relevant for you. This will provide you with a first-hand research experience at your home institute. Later that Professor may help you with LORs(Letters of Recommendation) too.

Now you aren’t an absolute beginner, rather you possess some skills and experience.

Now, how to apply for these research internships?

Follow this answer of mine:

Getting a research internship in your second year is slightly difficult, so don’t lose hope if things go otherwise. But this experience will definitely fetch you a good research internship during your 3rd year.

Also, during your second year, try hard in the new IITs, NITs, it may be difficult to get into old IITs/ IISc being an absolute beginner.

I hope this helps, thanks.

Thanks for the A2A.

It’s not easy to answer this since it really just depends on the situation. Personally, I have never been to UBC nor do I know anyone that studies there but I think it might actually work like in any other university.

I don’t know how to get started and professors seem to busy to contact.

Well, says who? They are of course busy doing their own work, which involves research, teaching, preparing material for lectures, answering emails, finding funds, attending meetings and last but not least… meeting with students. Yes, that’s part of their job, i.e. what they are paid for. Professors usually meet students during office hours but I am pretty sure you are aware of that after three years of college.

This might be a good way to approach them; go to their office hours, which is the time they allocate from their busy schedule to meet with students and discuss any doubts or queries they might have. This spans from asking for a further explanation about a topic covered during class to a recommendation letter, as well as listening to students’ requests and proposals.

You can show up there and tell them that you are interested in doing some research. Tell you what, some professor may even pay you for doing research with them! It depends a lot on how much money they have available for their research projects but it is definitely not unusual. These job positions are usually called research assistantships (RAs) and if you carefully look through your university website you may find something like that. If your professor doesn’t have any available fundings it does not mean you are not allowed to work with them. You can ask them to volunteer, which is basically the same thing, you are just not getting paid for it. This may be a good way to start your path in research and it also shows how motivated you are and how committed you can be to work with him/her. They might not have any fundings available at the moment but they may have some in the future!

You can’t go to their office hours because you have a class during that time slot? Not a problem! Just send them an email politely asking for a good time to meet you in order to discuss some research tasks they may have available for you! I’d say you should briefly describe your interests (which would be great if they match their research areas), or any of their projects you are interested in. I don’t think they would just ignore you, but if they do, do not give up! Try to stop by their office and just politely explain them your situation, worst case scenario they’d just say no. It won’t impact you in any way. In other words, you have nothing to lose! In Italy we say: “asking a question is free of charge!”.

My GPA is 3.25, also I havent been involved with research activities before except student team projects

Well, this really depends on your professors, on how busy they are or how many students ask to do research with them. They might set a minimum GPA just to make sure you can handle the work and perform well. IMO GPA doesn’t show how well you can do in research, although I don’t blame professors if they use it to cut some students out, it is actually the easiest and fastest way to select the “best performing students”. They usually do so when there’s no time to discuss possible research tasks with each student that approaches them. Remember, a professor is that crazy busy and weird-looking creature that wander around university campuses trying to indoctrinate a bunch of young students, right?!

I am interested in control theory and control systems.

Nice! This might play an important role if you want to do research in those areas. If you just want to just see what doing research means (maybe you’re thinking about grad school but you’re not really sure about it) then just try to do anything as close as possible to the areas you are interested in, however I wouldn’t set it as a strict constraint.

If you are really passionate about those areas I’d say mention it to your professors. Try to read one of their papers and explain what really fostered your attention and pushed you to do some research in that specific area. You find their papers to hard to read? No worries! Just tell them the topic that really keeps you up at night (okay maybe that is a bit too much but who know?s!) and why do you really want to go deeper in studying it.

The clearer you are when you explain your intensions the better it is.

I havent been involved with research activities before except student team projects

I don’t see it as a problem, there’s always a first time. You’ll start with easy tasks, e.g. reading a paper and explain it to your professor or just run an experiment or getting familiar with the research tools the group is currently using. Nothing a motivated student midway through his/her undergrad’s wouldn’t be able to do!

Hope this helps and good luck!

Would love to know if you can actually find something interesting.

Cheers!

There are 2 major ways that I am aware of:

1. Apply by directly emailing to professors who are working in areas of your interest. They may require interviews, your CV, or recommendation letters, but it really depends on the professor in question.
2. Applying via the SRFP of the Indian Academy of Sciences. Many of the IISc professors take students almost every year through this program, and you can find the list of registered professor for every year’s intake on the SRFP website.

So you can try through both methods. For the summer of 2021, I believe SRFP has already closed its application portal, so you can try via the first method. That is anyway the more common method undertaken by several of my peers, seniors and juniors.

Good luck!

Well, without any experience its difficult to get a research internship.

Research is all about exploring, understanding and implementing. Plus, innovation.

One can do wonders in any field. All it needs is a proper start.

First, you need to build yourself up with good amount of technical knowledge related to your field of interest. You need to work on your basics. This provides a strong basement for you to build a mansion on. Read few technical papers which would help you figure out on how a research work is carried out.

Find a professor / researcher who has already prior experience in research related to your field of interest. Request him/her to guide you towards your goal. Explain him/her why exactly do you wanna pursue research. Your motive would give him/her an overview of how well you’re interested and how well you could work. This might also help them design a path for you.

This should be a self-starter from you.

Good luck! :)

You should contact the professor through email with your CV. Professors get lot of emails so please keep your email to the point. Do not write the same general email to all profs in the department. Your email should reflect that you know what you are genuinely interested in and how it matches with the interest of Profs.

Also do not expect replies. If the professor is interested, he will get back to you. If not, move on. Although all professors would want to reply everybody with yes or no, it is not possible as we get huge number of internship applications.

Generally, end of the third year is the best time to do internship. Although not impossible, end of second year is bit early in my personal view.

If you are from around Hyderabad, you should drop by at the annual R&D showcase to understand what things are going on. If there are some topics you find interesting, you can find out more by chatting with research students. If you are convinced, you can also try to meet the faculty.

> How can I get a research internship in my University?

Ask them for one. Professors can be really busy, but they do have openings in their calendars to meet with students, especially ones whose interests align with theirs.

One thing you have to realize is that teaching is only part of their job. The other part of the job has to do with research and writing papers. They generally don’t have a lot of time to devote to actually doing the leg work for their research because of teaching, grading, other meetings, writing papers, reviewing papers, applying for grants, and running the management of their lab (if they have one).

In my alma mater, the younger professors in the engineering department were evaluated every year and some of the criteria were total numbers of papers published in that year and research funding brought in. There was a minimum that had to be attained for each over a period of time to become full professors and gain tenure. When I learned this, I was also told that research papers are the currency of academia. The more produced in the most prestigious journals make you “rich” in the academic community. With a bunch of quality papers in respected journals, you can get better teaching positions at more prestigious universities and have access to better funding. In academia, reputation is everything and papers help your rep.

If you’re looking to become a research assistant (RA), talk to the professors doing that kind of research. If you care more about the work than the pay and want some mentorship, talk to a younger professor. They’re usually under the gun to get that tenure, so they have to devote more time to their research. If you’re helping them, they’ll try to coach you so you can produce good work for them. If you’re looking only to get a “job” and get paid, talk to an older professor. Since they’ve been in the game longer, they know how to get funding and are usually leading a team of RAs, so them having one more won’t be too hard to make work.

Hope that helps!

Thanks for the A2A. By a second year student I assume we are talking of someone entering the third year.

First things first. You are only as good as your profile. You could have done a lot of work but your presentation of what you have done is what ultimately you will be judged by. On the other hand, you might not have done a lot of ground breaking work but you could be good at putting things together. How you present your profile is very important. So, start building a decent website that showcases your work and interests.

The following are the things a good profile would have:

1. Good letters of recommendation: A letter is very important since they are a direct reflection of how good you are to work with and what your strengths and weaknesses are.
2. Academic profile: Good grades do not indicate that you are smart, but they definitely show that you are consistent and hardworking (perhaps). Also, relevant coursework and projects in the courses are a big plus point.
   
3. Tangible experience in a related area: A lot of why a professor would want to work with your depends on how much you have worked in a related area or any area that the professor can identify with.
4. Your ability to draw good conclusions out of those experiences, relating them to further possibilities: This is not really necessary, often people are just looking for the first three qualities, since they guarantee that most of the work an intern is expected to do can be done. However in exceptional circumstances, this could swing things your way !

Everything you do in your third year should be geared towards improving your profile, as much as possible. For most of the items on the menu, honors is a good start. It ensures that you spend the second year of your summer productively, get a good grounding in the area you want to work on, etc. By the way, it is also possible to do a university intern at the end of the second year, most of the students at IIT's do that. At IIIT somehow we have this notion that we need to work a lot in an area before we go for an intern though, unlike most IIT's. Maybe this is something that could change with time.

Interact with your honors guide on a regular basis and keep him / her up to date on your interests, and keep them in the loop when you plan for internships. Be sure to relate the work you are doing in the research group to the work that you are likely to do in the internship, otherwise you could be in for a massive shock. Also, keep it a point to thank them when they send your reco's. Also, in the rarest cases it might be possible that your guide himself sends you for an intern.

In case you dont take up honors, make sure that you do good internships and try and take a more "serious" BTP. For a research intern, i should emphasize again what matters more is how much and what you have done and not how smart you are.

During the third year, make sure you take good research electives and do well in them. There are plenty of challenging and unique courses offered in IIIT which are almost offered no where else. I believe it is important to make good use of these opportunities. For instance, a few semesters ago, there was a prof from CMU to take a course on HCI. Other courses like Speech, IR, CV etc. will add a lot to your profile in case you apply for intern in those areas.

There are two types of research internships that are offered: one is an intern as a part of some program, like DAAD, Gatech-CRUISE and CMU-RISS and the other is where you mail the profs in your area of interest and inquire if you can come over. The GPA becomes less important in this case, and those with lower GPA's could probably focus more on mailing professors, although mind you that takes a lot of patience and effort. To know how to mail professors, contact Goutam Tulsiyan :)

Finally, if the goal is to perhaps go for a probable masters/phd later, mention that in your statement of purpose. Also, do look outside the "top-class" universities as well while applying. Its the professor and his reputation that counts, not what university he is in!

You should try emailing/cold messaging professors on LinkedIn. For emailing, find the contacts on IIM Banglore’s website: You are being redirected. Find and research the professors who have relevant experience in the field you are planning your research in (it is good to be specific and reach out to them with clarity). Keep your email brief and let them know why the specific area interests you, how they can help you in your research journey, any prior experience you have. In case you do not have anything specific in mind, express your interest in research in general (and your willingness to learn) and check whether they do have something for you. If you don’t get a reply, you can also reach out to an IIM-B student on LinkedIn (your connection) and ask them which professors collaborate with students so you can reach out to those professors instead.

Hope this helps!

Why not? And what would be the alternative? Not doing anything for the summer after your first year?

Internships matter when it comes to pursuing competitive jobs later on in your college career. While most traditional professional internships aren’t really available to first year students, it’s smart to seek substantive experiences that further your understanding or knoweldge either in your chosen professional field or in your field of study (if that’s different).

The inportance of obtaining compelling internship experiences is a hobby horse of mine. You can read more of my musings on this topic here.

This answer is in Indian context:

IISc cannot offer internships because it is not any private engineering company. They offer industrial training certificate.

• Internships are not trainings.
• Internships are offered by private companies to learn to choose highly skilled employees from many job applicants.
• 99% of the internships in India are for computer programmers with an impressive github profile.
• 95% of the Indian engineering students arrange for random cheap industrial training certificates from NIIT/CETPA like shops, when asked for one from their college.
• All about engineering internships and summer/industrial trainings for Indian Btech students !

Few prerequisites:

• Have a good knowledge about the field and coding. You must be skilled.
• Try to find of on going projects under the professor and skill requirements on the project.
• Have a good one page resume with all your projects.
• Have a precise mail to be sent to Professors.
• Have never say die attitude while applying. You may require to send mail to 1000 Professors to get 5 replies and 1 selection.

How to do:

• One method is try to approach scholars in these universities. Try linkedin, Facebook, lab/institute website to get names and emails. Application through a scholar keeps more weight.
• Send the mail directly to professor. If he likes your work then may ask for an online interview.
• A few IITs call for interns as well. Try through the channel and follow the process.

I can share the format of Resume and mail, if anyone interested.

1. Visit the institute's website.
2. In the “Staff and faculty” or similar sector, zero down the professors/ assistant professors/ associate professors who specialise in the subject that interests you.
3. Follow their work. Read their published papers. Understand their way of working, collaborations with other institutes or professors.
4. Follow their achievements. Also, you can compare their Research gate scores. (ResearchGate | Share and discover research ). This is for the case when you're confused between two or more processors who interest you, you'd definitely like to go with one with more acknowledgement, accomplishments and experience.
5. Get their contact information (e-mail address) from the website.
6. Prepare your CV and SOP (Statement of Purpose) and mail it to them.
7. Do remember to make the SOP catchy, crisp and on point. Big names generally lack time to go through a large mail that just landed merely for an internship.
8. Mail hundreds and one positive might arrive. Be patient.

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Try to attend as many as possible national and international conferences. You can either be a part as an author of your research work, or as a volunteer . There're several scholarships for financial needs and once your are selected, the process will be wide open before you.

The best part of being a part of a conference is establishing contacts. Hundreds of renowned faces from all over the world turn up and are open to discussions, ideas as well as questions. Believe me, if you can make the best from those couple of days or even hours of the conference, you might never need to prepare a SOP.

All the best.

Depends on your priorities.

If you are talking about placements, research, faculty, curriculum etc then IIIT Bangalore is excellent (and constantly improving). Keep in mind that you will have to work reasonably hard while here. If your zeal for studies has been extinguished by the toll of JEE, don’t come here.

There are many people who have left top NITs CSE, BITS CSE (a few Pilani, many Goa and Hyderabad) and new IITs CSE.

The reasons that one should join IIITB are as follows:

1. Placements: The median placement for the second batch was 17LPA. This already puts IIITB toe-to-toe with the top NITs’ CSE.
2. Curriculum: We learnt Programming in C and Python, DSA, Calculus, Linear Algebra, Digital Design and Networks in the first year. This puts us at least a year ahead compared to other colleges’ curricula. The curriculum undergoes constant improvement and new electives are always being added.
3. Faculty: The faculty at IIITB are highly technically competent, up to date, approachable, and down-to-earth.
4. No-reservation culture: This has a big impact on peer group quality and this has a big difference on the competitive spirit of every batch.
5. The senior-junior culture: The culture here is one of mutual respect and companionship.
6. Mentorship by the clubs: Let me put it this way. The robotics club has a programme for the first years for introduction to Arduino and its peripherals. They also conduct lectures introducing topics like ML. The competitive programming club conducts lectures on programming and CP in particular. The software development club conducts seminars on game development etc.
1. Nobody is going to spoonfeed you here. They will just introduce the various topics which are not something you would be exposed to. But yes, you will have a lot of guidance.
2. The clubs are also young, so don’t expect the activities to be on the scale of the old IITs, BITS and the NITs. The seniors are really putting a lot of efforts in quickly bringing the clubs up to the desired level. It also depends on the level of participation from the juniors, which is constantly improving.
7. Bangalore. Being in the IT hub of India has an impact on internships and placements. The out-of-campus life is better here, with Forum mall half an hour to 45 minutes away. Healthcare facilities are good, and the college has recently made a tie-up with Narayana for an ambulance facility.

However, this doesn’t mean IIITB is some kind of nirvana or mecca. Cons:

1. Brand value: People within the industry are (now) somewhat aware of IIITB, but outside it, zilch. If brand value matters to you, consider another institute.
2. Rigour: This is good and bad, but if you are not interested in working hard, IIITB is not the place for you. One-night study is not enough for most exams. There will be plenty of projects and assignments, too. The coursework is rigorous.
3. Small campus: The infrastructure quality is good, but the small campus hinders sports and fest activities at times. However, the ability to leave your hostel room 90 seconds before your class starts is something the members of bigger campuses may envy.

As far as I know, there are three major ways to get internship at IITs:

• IAS SRPF - Well, this one doesn’t guarantee you an internship at an IIT but at any institute (including research labs) which are provided in their list. The Academy gives you a stipend to cover your living expenses and travel fare for to and fro between the institute and your home. You have to write a write up and they will be allotting you the professor and institute based upon your interests. The application deadline is usually November but just ensure you stay informed.
• Portal - Besides the academy interns, IITs take interns through their specific portals. These portals are different for different IITs and so are the commencement and deadlines of the internship. You need to keep checking whether the portal has been opened or not. Also, some IITs provide you with stipend and some don’t.
• Direct mail - You can also directly mail the professor about your interest as an intern along with your resume. But the chances of getting a stipend is lower as compared to the first two as only those professors with extra funds will be taking interns.

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