Joint Admission test for Masters (JAM)
From JAM Topper to Ph.D. Scholar: The Platinum Path Starts Here!
The Director’s Platinum Jubilee Excellence Fellowship (DPEF) is now open to JAM 2026 toppers (ranks 1–50) who choose to pursue a Master’s degree at IIT Kharagpur.
Enjoy a monthly stipend of ₹5,000 for two years and a cumulative ₹60,000 summer internship grant during the Master’s program.
Take this exceptional opportunity to master your discipline and continue your pursuit of innovation by enrolling in a Ph.D. program at IIT Kharagpur.
(Subject to meeting all admission criteria of IIT Kharagpur)
- Admission to 2 Year M.Sc. courses of the Joint M.Sc.-Ph.D. Program will be made in the Autumn Semester of each session, at the First Year level, through a Joint Admission Test (JAM) conducted by one of the IITs every year by rotation under the supervision of a Joint Admission Committee, which comprises of representatives from all the IITs.
- Provisions of this Regulation do not prevent the Institute from allowing students enrolled in a university in India or abroad to attend specified subjects in one or more semesters without leading to any degree on certain terms and conditions.
- All students admitted to any of the courses including those accepted under Section c above shall be required to pay at the time of joining and also in subsequent semesters prevalent tuition and other fees as prescribed by the Institute till they are on roll.
- The Institute reserves the right to cancel the admission of any student, and ask him/her to discontinue his/her studies at any stage of his/her career on grounds of unsatisfactory academic performance, irregular attendance in classes or indiscipline.
- Candidate admitted through JEE Advanced to B.Tech.(Hons.)/Dual Degree/Integrated M.Sc. BS programs (other than B.Arch.(Hons.) students) will be eligible for Branch Change and Switch Over to Interdisciplinary Dual Degree Programs, the rules for which are mentioned in the subsequent sections.
- Guidelines of Joint M.Sc.-Ph.D. Program