Here’s the latest on this: IITs are discontinuing traditional 5‑year integrated MTech programmes, replacing them with refreshed dual‑degree structures

Phase‑out of old 5‑year tracks: These programmes, where students enrol directly into a combined BTech + MTech path, are being scrapped. Instead, admission into the MTech will now typically occur mid‑way, around the end of the 5th semester .

Repackaged “new avatar”: Rather than a standard integrated MTech, many IITs are offering interdisciplinary dual‑degree options—for example, a BTech in one field along with an MTech in a different domain like robotics‐mechanical, computer science‑management, etc. This allows students to mix and match across disciplines.

Rationale: Boosts flexibility, encourages interdisciplinary skills, aligns with growing student intake under the expanded reservation framework, and keeps intake for BTech rising.

This aligns with existing dual‑degree formats at several IITs (Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, Madras), which already offered 5‑year BTech + MTech courses in specific branches. But now these are being intentionally phased out or restructured into more flexible, interdisciplinary models .

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