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The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) on June 29 will host its 57th convocation. As many as 2,332 students will graduate this year.
The graduating students include 226 PhD recipients, 457 MTech recipients and 842 BTech recipients. The ceremony will also see 165 students from MSc (2-year), 36 from MBA, 12 from MTech-PhD (joint degree), 1 from MDes (joint degree), 17 from MDes, 77 from MS (by research), 40 from PGPEX-VLFM, 26 from double major, 89 from dual degree, 14 from MS-PD (MS part of the Dual Degree), 125 from BS, and 205 from the eMasters degree programmes.
The IIT Kanpur convocation ceremony will be held in two sessions with the first session being conducted in the Main Auditorium of IITK, which has a capacity of 1,250, awarding the high achievers. The second session will be the conferring of degrees by individual departments to the students across the different Lecture Halls led by the Chairperson, Senate Post-Graduate Committee (SPGC) and the Chairperson, Senate Under-Graduate Committee (SUGC).
The ceremony is being held in two sessions to ensure that all the graduating students can participate in this celebration of their academic achievements.
This diverse group of graduates is representative of IITK’s broad academic offerings in line with its commitment to fostering a multidisciplinary academic environment, an IIT Kanpur statement said.
The ceremony will witness the continuation of IIT Kanpur administration’s dress code recommendation with male students wearing a cream-colored kurta paired with white pyjamas, and female students in a cream-colored kurta with white churidar or leggings, along with formal footwear.
The convocation ceremony will be graced by the President of Oregon State University, USA (OSU), Professor Jayathi Y Murthy, an IITK alumna, as the Chief Guest. Dr K Radhakrishnan, Chairperson, Board of Governors (BoG), IIT Kanpur; and Professor Manindra Agrawal, Director, IIT Kanpur will preside over the ceremony.
