M. Tech. program

M.Tech. in Biological Engineering

The M.Tech. program has been designed with a focus on research and enables the students to gain thorough understanding of the areas of Biological Sciences and Engineering. The curriculum involves courses from Biological Sciences and Engineering, as well as from other departments including Humanities and Social Sciences. An open-ended thesis project is a compulsory requirement of the program and exposes the students to hands-on research environment. The courses in offer can be seen here.

Further details about the M.Tech. program at IIT Gandhinagar and the expectations from students can be found here. 

Apart from the regular M.Tech. program, IIT Gandhinagar also offers admission through an Early-Admit M.Tech. program and M.Tech Course Work Track program. For details about these program, please visit this page.

Link of Advisories: NORMS FOR MTech PROGRAMME

M.Tech (Thesis Track) 2024-25 onwards

A minimum of 82 credits need to be earned for graduation that includes 32 credits or more through course work and a minimum of 32 credits by thesis.

The course work shall consist of:

      • 4 credits of Writing course
      • >=4 credits of HSS courses
      • >=16 credits of Department PG Electives 
      • >=8 credits of open electives which can also be chosen from the list of Department UG/PG Electives
      • 2 credits of PG Orientation Programme Aarohan
      • Two Physical Education (PE) courses, one each in first two semesters.

M.Tech (Course Work Track)

2024-25 onwards

A minimum of 82 credits need to be earned for graduation that includes 48 credits or more through course work and a minimum of 16 credits through  Project courses.

The course work shall consist of:

      • 4 credits of Writing course
      • >=4 credits of HSS courses
      • >=24 credits of Department PG Electives 
      • >=16 credits of open electives which can also be chosen from the list of Department PG/UG Electives
      • 2 credits of PG Orientation Programme Aarohan
      • Two Physical Education (PE) courses, one each in first two semesters

    *Please note that not more than 8 credits of UG courses i.e. courses below 6 level can be counted towards graduation. HSS courses are not counted in this limit.

  • *For guidelines on online courses please see the Advisory here.

  

Department PG Electives:

  • BE614 Biostatistics (4 credits)
  • BE613 Biochemistry (4 credits)

  • BE616 Human Physiology (4 credits)

  • BE618 Molecular Biotechnology (4 credits)
  • BE619 Cellular Communication (4 credits)
  • BE620 Physical Biology of the Cell (4 credits)
  • BE621 Peptide Technologies (2 credits)
  • BE606 Neurophysiological basis of Movement (4 credits)
  • BE608 Molecular Basis of Neurodegenerative Diseases (4 credits)
  • BE610 Molecular Oncology (4 credits)
  • BE617 Novel Drug Delivery Technologies: Fundamental Principles and Engineering (4 credits)

  • Department UG Electives:

  • BE 301 Molecular Genetics (2 credits)
  • BE303 Bionanotechnology – Principles and Applications (4 credits)
  • BE 304 Introduction to Biomedical Engineering (4 credits)
  • BE403 Stem Cells: Science and Applications (4 credits)
  • BE404 Genetic Engineering – Principles and Applications (4 credits)
  • BE405 Introduction to Plant Biotechnology (4 credits)
  • BE406 Systems Biology (4 credits)
  • BE407 Introduction to Cell Biology (4 credits)

New Dept. Electives courses being developed for academic year 2024-25 onwards

  • BE6XX Protein Biotherapeutics: Concept to Product (4 credits)
  • BE6XX Biocomputing (Lecture+Lab) (2 credits) (2 credits)
  • BE6XX Bioinformatics (2 credits) (Lecture+Lab)
  • BE6XX Advances in computational Biology (2 credits)
  • BE6XX Oligonucleotide and Cell based therapies (2 credits)
  • BE6XX Structural Biology or Advanced Biomolecular Crystallography (4 credits) (Lecture+Lab)
  • BE6XX Characterization of Biologicals (4 credits) (Lab)
  • BE6XX Cell Culture technologies (2 credits) (Lab)
  • BE6XX Immunoengineering (2 credits)