Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research


Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research are a group of premier public research institutions in India. The institutes were established by the Government of India through the Ministry of Human Resource Development to provide quality collegiate education in basic sciences coupled with cutting-edge research at the undergraduate level. The institutes were formally established by the Parliament of India through the National Institutes of Technology, Science Education and Research Act, 2010. Seven IISERs have been established across the country, namely IISER Kolkata in West Bengal, IISER Pune in Maharashtra, IISER Mohali in Punjab, IISER Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, IISER Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, IISER Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh, and IISER Berhampur in Odisha. All IISERs were declared as Institutes of National Importance by the Parliament of India in 2012, to promote them as leading institutions in the country in the field of basic sciences along with its sister institutes like Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar. The financial outlay for each IISER is around for the first five years of establishment.

Institutes

The IISERs are located in the following locations:
NameShort NameEstablishedCity/TownState/UTWebsite
IISER BerhampurIISER-BPR2016BerhampurOdisha
IISER BhopalIISER-B2008BhopalMadhya Pradesh
IISER KolkataIISER-K2006KalyaniWest Bengal
IISER MohaliIISER-M2007MohaliPunjab
IISER PuneIISER-P2006PuneMaharashtra
IISER ThiruvananthapuramIISER-TVM2008ThiruvananthapuramKerala
IISER TirupatiIISER-T2015TirupatiAndhra Pradesh

Future institutes

was functioning from the temporary campus at Mohanpur, a temporary arrangement within the campus of Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya previously and now almost all the labs have been shifted to its permanent campus, over of land at Haringhata, Kalyani near Kolkata.
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune has started functioning from the National Chemical Laboratory Pune campus. Its campus has mostly been developed. The labs, lecture hall complexes, main buildings, and the hostels have been set up in the permanent campus.
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali has started functioning from the Mahatma Gandhi State Institute of Public Administration complex in Sector 26 Chandigarh. The foundation stone for its permanent campus was laid in September 2006 by the Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh. It started functioning at its permanent campus at Sector 81, Mohali.
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal started functioning from the ITI Gas Rahat Building Govindpura Bhopal. The Institute was moved to its main campus in Bhauri in August 2012.
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram started functioning recently from its own permanent campus at Vithura, which is 40 km from Thiruvananthapuram city. Earlier, it was functioning from a temporary campus at the College of Engineering, Trivandrum.
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Tirupati started functioning from a transient campus at Mangalam, Tirupati about 7 km from the city in 2015. The permanent campus has been planned to be constructed at Yerpedu, about a half-an-hour away from the city in a plot of 250 acres near the foothills of the Saptagiri ranges and Phase-1 of the construction is to expected to be completed by 2019.
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Berhampur commenced in Odisha in 2016. It is functioning from a transit campus at Government ITI.Its permanent campus is being built at Laudigam about an hour from Berhampur, Odisha.

Academics and admission

As of October 2018, IISERs admit 1325 students in total each year for their dual degree BS-MS Program. For each channel of admission below, additional cut-off criteria of respective IISERs are applicable. Candidates satisfying any of the following criteria are eligible for applying:
  1. KVPY channel: Candidates having a valid KVPY fellowship.
  2. JEE channel: Candidates in General category securing a rank within 10000 in the Common Rank List of the JEE Advanced are eligible to apply. For candidates belonging to reserved category, their category rank should be within 10000. Additionally, for admission to the 4-year BS program in Engineering Sciences at IISER Bhopal, candidates must have secured 75% marks or 65% marks in their Class XII exams.
  3. State and Central Boards Channel : Candidates who have passed level with science stream with marks equal to or above the cut off percentage in their respective boards as given in the external link are eligible to apply for the IISER Aptitude Test. Candidates applying through SCB channel will have to appear in the IAT. On the basis of the cut-off marks of IAT for each IISER, candidates are alloted IISERs by the Joint Admissions Committee through a common admissions portal.