Gauhati University Institute of Science and Technology, Guwahati: Admission, Courses, Fees, Placements

Gauhati University Institute of Science and Technology is one of the most favourite affiliated colleges in Guwahati, Assam. It was established back in 2009 and promotes co-education. The institute is approved by the All India Council for Technical Education. In the field of engineering and technology, it offers a variety of courses to the students. Faculty strength: There are 27 dedicated professionals constituting the faculty strength, which delivers quality education to the students across 9 courses, that are introduced at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The institute concentrates on various disciplines including Electronics and Communication Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Biotechnology, and the latest area which is robotics.

GUIST boasts of a rather impressive range of facilities for the conduct of its academic pursuits. There are 97 state-of-art laboratories available on campus with high-end instruments for research and academic purposes. The treasure house of knowledge is the K. K. Handiqui Library housing about 4,500 manuscripts on various subjects and has been designated as a "Manuscripts Resource Center" by the National Mission for Manuscripts. The facility offers Wi-Fi connectivity besides 27 well-equipped computer labs across departments for the benefit of students. The institute facilitates students in overall development. The institute provides sports facilities with two playgrounds to play football and cricket, and different gymnasiums for both boys and girls. 

The Institute offers a total of 9 courses through the curriculum, including B.Tech courses and M.Tech courses. There are five B.Tech streams: Biotechnology, Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Information Technology, and Robotics. All the above programs are 4-year full-time programmes. The M.Tech programmes offered in full time exist in four specialties: Biotechnology, Information Technology, Signal Processing and Communications, and VLSI Design and Signal Processing, both for 2 years. The total number of admissions for the B. Tech programmes in the above specialisations varies between 30 and 60 seats. In all M. Tech programmes, the intake is 18 seats.  The admission procedure in GUIST as an institution offering specialisation courses is highly planned whereby it chooses the crème de la crème into its different various courses.

Mainly it is usually an entrance examination at the national or state level which gets one admitted to the B. Tech programme. For M. Tech, scores obtained in GATE along with his performances in his undergraduate program are considered by the institute.