IIT Kanpur Academic Excellence Award

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The Indian Institute of Technology - IIT Kanpur recognizes the academic achievements of its students in the form of several academic excellence awards.

These academic excellence awards are given at the end of each academic year based on the performance of the student in the previous academic year.

Academic Excellence Awards

Criteria-

Academic Excellence Awards are given to meritorious students of IIT Kanpur having a CPI of 8.5 and above.

A student who has failed in one or more courses in the last two regular semesters; or registers in a semester beyond the normal residency requirement is not eligible to receive the award.

Top 7% students of the first year UG batch are given the award based on their CPI at the end of 1st semester.

Top 7% students of each of the 2nd and 3rd year UG batches are given the award based on their past year CPI.

For the 5th year UG students in 5-year program, the top 7% of each department are given the award based on their past year CPI. This award is to be given by the parent department.

For the 4th year UG students in 4-year or 5-year programs (combined), the top 7% of each department are given the award based on their past year CPI.

For the M. Tech., MBA, M. Des., MS by Research and M.Sc. (2 year) program students, the top 7% of each department are given the award based on their past year CPI.

In addition, two global lists of students in the final year UG programs (one for 4-year program and one for 5-year program) are prepared after removing those students that have already received the award
Top 7% in each of the two global lists are also given the award subject to the minimum CPI criterion of 8.5.
This award is to be given by the parent department for the 5-year program students.

This award shall not be given for any department having student strength of less than five.

Contact-

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Kalyanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208016