The M.Tech program offered by Indian Institute of Technology Madras/ Chennai is a two-year course oriented graduate program. One has to take a set of core courses and a set of electives.

The course work is spread across the first two semesters with an option of taking one elective in the third semester. It is followed by a project in 3rd and 4th semester in which one can take up a project of interest, supervised by a faculty member.


The Curriculum/Syllabus of M. Tech (Department of Computer Science & Engineering) as offered by Indian Institute of Technology Madras/ Chennai is as follows:

Sem. Course No. Course Title

1 CS5800 Advanced Data Structures and Algorithms
1 CS6105/ Logic and Combinatorics for Computer Science (OR)
CS6015 Linear Algebra and Random Processes
1 CS5810 Advanced Programming Laboratory
1 ELE1 Elective 1
1 ELE2 Elective 2

2 ELE3 Elective 3
2 ELE4 Elective 4
2 ELE5 Elective 5
2 ELE6 Elective 6

Summer CS5980 M.Tech Project I

3 CS5970 M.Tech Seminar
3 CS5990 M.Tech Project II

4 CS6000 M.Tech Project III

Contact Detail:
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
Postcode: 600036
Tel: (+91)-44-22574350,
Fax: (+91)-44-22574352