PERMISSION TO PROCEED TO OTHER ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS AS
NON-DEGREE STUDENTS
In order to help-students broaden their horizons and enrich their cultural and academic experience, provision to proceed to other academic and research institutions in India or abroad as nondegree students is available. Rules and procedures to be followed for availing this provision are as follows:
i) An M.Tech. or a Ph.D. student who satisfies the minimum conditions laid down in para (ii) below may proceed to another academic institution in India or abroad with prior permission of the SPGC on the recommendation of the DPGC.
ii) Only those postgraduate students who have spent at least two semesters and have a CPI of at least 8.0 are eligible to proceed as nondegree students elsewhere.
iii) For permission to spend time as a nondegree student elsewhere, an eligible student will make an application to the SPGC through the DPGC, duly supported by a statement of purpose to undertake the proposed work and sufficient information about the department/institution for the purposes of para (iv) below.
iv) The DPGC will consider the student's application and will determine if the proposed programme of work is of such a nature that waiver for at least 7 units per regular semester or 4 units per summer term is possible. The SPGC may approve the application on the recommendation of the DPGC. In all such cases, the student will be informed about the requirements he/she must fulfill to apply for academic credit on his/her return.
v) Permission to proceed to an institution as a nondegree student does not imply that the student will automatically get any waiver from the academic requirements of IIT Kanpur.
vi) The student after completion of the work, will apply for waiver from requirements of his/her programme at IIT Kanpur supported by an official transcript of the grades obtained and whatever material the DPGC may require for the purpose given in para (vii) below.
vii) The concerned DPGC will evaluate the work done by the student and will make recommendations to the SPGC after determining by whatever means it deems fit, the equivalent IIT Kanpur courses/requirements for which the student may be given a waiver.
viii) On the recommendation of the DPGC, the SPGC may allow the waiver for a maximum of 16 units. Against each requirement for which a waiver is granted, a W would appear on the transcript with an explanatory note that W stands for waiver for work done at the Institution concerned. All such requirements will be deemed to carry zero weight for SPI/CPI calculations.
ix) The minimum residence requirement for the students who avail of this provision will remain unchanged for Ph.D. students but may be reduced by one semester for M. Tech students, provided they spend at least one semester of 16 weeks duration or two quarters of at least 11 weeks duration each as nondegree students elsewhere with prior permission.
x) Those students who are selected by the Institute using a Senate-prescribed procedure to proceed on any institutional exchange programme, except for the students going under the DAAD fellowship programme, will also have to go through the procedure and rules for the transfer of credits as outlined in paras (vi), (vii), (viii) and (ix) above.
6.2 PERMISSION TO PROCEED FOR ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
The PG students can be permitted to proceed for academic activities outside IITK to carry out field work, library work, computational work, experimental work, and Lab works, and also to attend conference, courses and to undertake other research work etc. as recommended by the department. Permission for a duration upto 30 days be sanctioned by the department with an intimation to SPGC and more than 30 days by the Chairperson- SPGC on the recommendation of the Department.
