Opportunity for Bangladeshi students to study engineering at IITs

The Indian High Commission in Dhaka says it has decided to provide an “opportunity” for Bangladeshi students to pursue engineering education in the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), both at the undergraduate and post graduate levels.

A delegation from IITs is scheduled to visit Bangladesh from Sep 4 to Sep 7 and will interact with interested students in Dhaka on Sep 4 and 5 and in Chittagong on Sep 6 and 7.

The primary objective of the visit is to make students in Bangladesh aware about the education system of IITs, and also to apprise them on how to get admitted to an IIT, the High Commission says.

The delegation will also survey and prepare for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) and Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), which is planned to be conducted in Bangladesh as well in 2017.

The JEE (advanced) 2017 will be conducted in the month of May 2017 and GATE 2017 will be conducted in the first and second weekends of February.

The online application portal for GATE 2017 will be active from Sep 1 to Oct 4 this year.

The IITs have a common admission process for undergraduate admissions, called IIT Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE), which was replaced by Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced) in 2013.

The post-graduate level programme that awards M.Tech and MS degrees in engineering is administered by the older IITs (Kharagpur, Bombay, Madras, Kanpur, Delhi, Dhanbad, Roorkee, Varanasi, Guwahati).

M.Tech and MS admissions are done on the basis of Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE).

The IIT delegation would mainly address two groups of students separately.

Group-A will comprise students studying in Class-XI and Class-XII in schools or colleges who are the target audience for JEE 2017.

Group-B will comprise students studying in Engineering Colleges and are in the final year of their program, target audience for GATE 2017).

On Sep 4, they will first interact with higher secondary students at 11.15am at DPS STS School, Uttara in Dhaka.

On the same day, at 3pm, they will interact with the final year engineering students at Dhaka University campus.

On Sep 5, they will also meet the final year engineering students at BUET at 11am. Later on 3pm, they will meet the higher secondary students at Aga Khan School in Uttara.

Students who wish to attend those sessions are advised to register with the Education Wing of the Indian High Commission through e mail: [e-mail].

They have to mention their names, contact details, names of institutions and levels as well as specify in which sessions they would like to participate.

The email subject should be mentioned as ‘IIT Interactive Session Dhaka’. The registration will close on Aug 31.