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 non-degree students is available. Rules and
procedure to be followed for availing this provision are as follows:-
1)
An M.Tech. or a Ph.D student who satisfies the minimum conditions
laid down in para (2) below may proceed to another academic institution in India
or abroad with prior permission of the SPGC
on the recommendation of the DPGC.
2) Only those postgraduates students
who have spent at least
two semesters and have a CPI of at least 8.0
are eligible to proceed as non-degree student elsewhere.
3)
For Permission to spend time as a non-degree 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 purpose of para (4) below.
4) 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.
5) Permission to proceed to an institution
as a non-degree student does not imply that the student will automatically get
any waiver from the academic requirements of IIT kanpur.
6) 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 (7) below.
7) 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.
8)
On the recommendation of the DPGC, the SPGC may allow the waiverr 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 work done at the Institution concerned.
All such requirements will be deemed to
carry Zero weight for SPI/CPI
Calculations.
9) The
Minimum residence requirement
for the student 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 non-degree students elsewhere with prior permission.
10) Those students who are selected
by the Institute using a Senate prescribed procedure to proceed on any institutional
exchange programme will also have to go through the procedure and rules for
the transfer of credits as outlined in paras (6),(7),(8) and (9) above.