Overview
- IIT Council endorsed a target of 5% undergraduate exchange across all 23 IITs with assured credit transfer.
- Students could spend a term or take electives at another IIT with credits applied to their home institute once rules are finalized.
- IIT Madras is leading curriculum mapping and drafting a unified credit-sharing document for inter-IIT alignment.
- Hostel capacity and other operational constraints are expected to limit how many visiting students each campus can receive.
- Designers are weighing JEE rank‑integrity safeguards, with the Council also seeking a model extendable to NITs, IIITs, IISERs and NLUs.