IIT Delhi to Hold its 55th Convocation on August 10, 2024 : Shri. Hari S. Bhartia, Founder and Co-Chairman, Jubilant Bhartia Group to be Chief Guest
New Delhi: IIT Delhi will hold its 55th Annual Convocation on August 10, 2024. Shri. Hari S. Bhartia, Founder and Co-Chairman, Jubilant Bhartia Group, and a Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Delhi (1979 batch, B.Tech. Chemical Engineering), will address the graduating students as the Chief Guest.
Prof. Rangan Banerjee, Director, IIT Delhi, addressed the media at a press conference on Thursday, announcing that over 2600 students will receive their degrees at the 55th Convocation. Out of the total graduating students, 25% are women.
More than 475 PhD graduates will be awarded their degrees at the convocation, marking a 35% increase from the previous year. This also portrays the Institute’s emphasis on research. Of the total graduating PhD students, 42% are women.
The youngest graduate, a BTech degree awardee, is less than 20 years, while the oldest, a PhD awardee, is 63.
In addition to the students graduating from B.Tech. and Dual degree programs, students graduating from the PhD, MBA, MS (Research), M.Des., M.Tech, Master of Public Policy, M.Tech. under Advance Standing, PG D.I.I.T. (Naval Construction), Joint PG Diploma in VLFM, D.I.I.T. (PG), and M.Sc. programs will also receive their degrees and diplomas at the convocation.
This year also marks our first graduates in two UG programmes (B.Tech. in Materials Engineering and B.Tech. in Engineering and Computational Mechanics) and four PG programmes (M.Tech. in Machine Intelligence and Data Science, M.Tech. in Biomolecular and Bioprocess Engineering, M.S.(R) in Transportation Safety and Injury Prevention, and M.S.(R) in Automotive Research and Tribology).
A total of 28 international students will receive their degrees at the convocation ceremony. Out of 28, 4 each are from Sudan and Ethiopia, 3 each from Tanzania and Uganda, 2 each from Bangladesh and Burkina Faso, and 1 each from a number of other countries, including the USA, Venezuela, etc.
At the 55th convocation, the Institute will honour ten of its esteemed alumni with the prestigious Alumni Awards 2024, i.e., the Distinguished Alumni Award and the Graduates of Last Decade (GOLD) Award (awardees’ list).
Some of the new academic programmes launched at IIT Delhi in AY 2024-25:
• M.A. in Culture, Society, Thought by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
• M.Sc. in Biological Sciences by the Kusuma School of Biological Sciences
• Executive MBA by the Department of Management Studies
Live streaming link : https://www.youtube.com/live/lfarIycqexM
