IIST 2025 Application Form, Exam Date, Syllabus, Eligibility, Pattern

IIST is known for getting admissions for UG and PG professional courses in the University with various specializations in the chosen stream held as per the university authority schedule. The candidates are advised to check some of the tentative dates related to this admission process. Here are some details that the students will have to keep checking to get updates on IIST 2025, which are mentioned below. IIST Admission Process 2025 is usually conducted in two slots for UG and PG separately, as mentioned below.

Students willing to get admission for IIST in 2025 academic year should know about the conducting university that initiates making important decisions in their eligibility criteria. The published standards will help the aspiring students know if they will be qualified or have the capacity to appear for the exam before filling out the online application form. Here, the candidates should realize that the application might be eliminated at any admission stage once the university committee decides that the student doesn’t fit the set criteria. 

Students must be aware of the IIST eligibility criteria as given below before registering themselves for admission:

General Eligibility:                                                           

• The applicants should be citizens of India.
• They must have a native residence certificate of the resided state and justify their local status as specified by India's government.
• When reporting for the university's admission process, students must submit their birth certificate and medical fitness certificate, which is used to verify their age criteria and physical capability.

Eligibility Criteria for the UG Course:

Students must be under the age of 21 to apply for UG admissions. They must have passed the 10^th and 12^th board exams from any recognized institute with a qualifying aggregate of 75% (65% for the SC/ST category). The students must have compulsory subjects like physics, chemistry, and mathematics. Along with that, students must have a JEE Advanced 2025 merit card with minimum qualifying marks.           

Eligibility Criteria for PG Course:                                                                         

The maximum age limit for students is 32 years, and few relaxations will be given for applicants in the applicants in the reserved category. The candidates must have completed their UG degree (B.Tech. or B.E.) from any recognized university with a qualifying examination by securing a 60% (55% for reserved category candidates) aggregate. Some of the qualifying exams are GATE, UGC NET/ JEST.

The aspirant students will have to follow some steps before applying for admission. The application and registration process for IIST 2025 involves stages, like Registration, IIST Password, procuring an enrollment ID, filling out the application, uploading scanned Photographs and other required Documents, Online payment of fees, etc.

Students must have an in-depth look into the details regarding the IIST 2025 admission application form:

Step 1: Registration                                                                              

To register for IIST 2025, the students will have to provide some of the necessary details, such as their name, date of birth, email, contact details, residence address, choice of stream, specializations, entrance exam details, etc., and lastly, press the submit button.

After the submission, students have to wait until they are informed about their choice of program and stream specialization through email or SMS, after which they will have to finish all the other steps of the application.

Step 2: Uploading Documents and Photographs     

Students applying for admission in IIST will have to digitally upload their recent passport-size photograph and their signature per the specifications in a scanned format. The file size that needs to be submitted should be within the specified size limit in the form.

Step 3: Application Submission                                    

Once the above two steps are finished, a confirmation notification will be displayed on the screen, and the student should read it and click on ‘I accept the terms and conditions.’

The IIST 2025 application form will appear on the screen, and the aspirants will have to scrutinize all the details and try to modify them if necessary, and then click on ‘Save and Print’

It is recommended that the students take a hard copy of the application receipt after the above steps are completed. They will be given a payment ID for reference, which will be used to pay application fees.

Step 4: Payment of Fees                                                 

The application fee for IIST Admission 2025 will have to be paid online by using a debit /credit card or net banking. The application fee for for both UG and PG is INR 600 for the general category and INR 300 for reserved category candidates. The amount paid once for the admissions process application becomes non-refundable at any point in time. The payment option for IIST 2025 application fees will be live only after the form has been submitted, and the students can continue to pay the fees.

Step 5: Confirmation of IIST 2025 Application

After the payment transaction of the IIST 2025 application fee is completed, students will get an online receipt to their contact details, which shows the completion of the registration process.

They will also get a confirmation mail on their registered email ID, where they will get a PDF file of the complete Application Form of IIST 2025 attached. Later, they can check their registered accounts and print out the application form.

IIST 2025 Merit List                                         

The IIST authority will release its merit list in online mode by the third week of November 2025 for UG and for PG courses in the second week of November 2025 on the website portal. Students have to log in using their credentials to check their name in the merit list under the specified category. merit list for IIST admission will be put together based on any of the national level exams taken up by the candidate and its rank, which is further followed by 12^th level marks /percentile of the students and then followed by diploma percentage/ marks.

For admissions, the IIST committee will have to prepare a merit list based on 50% weightage on 12^th level /diploma and 50% weightage given to National level entrance exam scores

IIST cut off for admissions will be released via online mode. Students must have secured minimum cut off marks to be eligible for entry and can check the cut off marks on the official website.

The cutoff margin will be released based on rank, category, performance in interview, availability of seats, etc. After the release of cut-off marks, candidates will be called for counseling.

The reservation criteria for IIST 2025 are declared as per the specifications of the Government of India, and the seats will be reserved (apart from private institutions & 50% seats in self-financed government . engineering institutions).

IIST admission counseling will be held after the release of the rank list. This process will be conducted only in offline mode, and the candidates will have to report to the counselor.

Counseling will be organized in multiple steps like seat allotment, document verification, etc. For PG course admissions, applicants will have to attend an interview or written test. Later, verification of documents will be done, and seats will be allotted to the candidates.

Below are some of the documents listed that the candidates can check, which will be needed at the time of verification:

• Mark sheets and certificates of qualified exams
• Transfer certificate
• Category certificate
• Migration certificate
• Medical certificate
• Scorecard of JEE Advanced, GATE, UGC NET, and JEST
• Passport size photograph, etc.

IIST 2025 Admission                                            

The admission procedure for IIST 2025 will be thoroughly carried out based on the combination of the merit list published by the authority and the marks of the qualifying entrance exam. Students will have to submit their login credentials to know their seat allotment status. The selection process will also be based on the students' choices and the course.

Filling of Choice IIST 2025

• Students can select their choices during the filling of options and dates as mentioned on the website.
• The IIST Authority will allocate seats following the provision of the choices on the final date for choice filling.
• When the seat allotment is finalized, the student needs to report to the allotted institute or can wait for the next Counseling round for upward movement if required.
• If a candidate appears for the particular round or last round of counseling, the counseling fee will be charged, transferred to the allotted college, and settled in the total cost.

The UG and dual-degree programs' admission will be based on the JEE Main 2025 and JEE Advanced 2025. Only those candidates who clear the cut-off set by the IIST will be eligible for admission based on merit.

Counseling will be started from the first week of July 2025 (tentative). During the counseling, candidates will be called in the order of their IIST ranks. Candidate eligibility and original documents will be checked, and if it is found ok, they will give their choice(s) of a branch and the order of preference.

The candidate will be allotted a confirmed seat at a branch where seats are available. If candidates accept the confirmed seat allotment, they will submit all their original documents to IIST for the counseling itself. Those candidates receive provisional admission; they will deposit their records at any counseling centers or IIST. If they do not submit the documents in a given time period, their entry will be automatically canceled.

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