220 foreign students apply at IIT-Kharagpur for courses

Kolkata: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur has received close to 220 applications from foreign students for various degree programmes of whom 11 students have already joined for the current academic year, an official said on Monday.
“The acceptance rate of the international students in various masters and doctoral degree programmes is about 8 per cent of whom 11 students have joined the institute for the academic year starting 2019,” the official said.
Foreign students have been enrolled for MTech programmes like Aerospace Engineering, Biotechnology, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering.