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Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati is holding its 26th convocation on July 14. The institute will award 2,145 degrees to its graduating class, including 932 in undergraduate programmes, 938 in postgraduate programmes and 275 in PhD programmes. The total number of female students graduating this year is 468.
This year, first batches from multiple programmes, including MBA, MA in liberal arts, MDes in electronic product design, MTech in bioengineering, MTech in biomedical science and engineering, MS(R) in polymer science and technology, first PhD student in the Joint PhD programme in food science and technology with Gifu University will also be awarded degrees.
From its first convocation in 1999, 63 students graduated, and IIT Guwahati has reached remarkable milestones, an IIT-G statement said.
Over the past 25 years, more than 22,600 students have been conferred degrees at IIT Guwahati.
A total of four gold medals, including the President’s gold medal, the Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma gold medal, and the Governor of Assam gold medals for both undergraduate and postgraduate categories will be conferred during the 26th Convocation event. Additionally, 16 silver medals will be awarded to the top performers in each discipline of BTech, BDes, MA, MSc, and MBA programmes. There will also be 14 best PhD thesis awards and 14 best master’s thesis awards.
Padma Shri awardee Dr. Sridhar Vembu, Founder and CEO of Zoho Corporation will be present as the Chief Guest at the event.
