Ph.D. Admissions



Ph.D. Admissions - Academic year (2025-26) .

Online interviews for the autumn semester Ph.D. admissions will be conducted on 3rd and 4th May 2025.
  • Eligible candidates will be called for a preliminary interview on 3rd May 2025.
  • Based on the performance in the preliminary interview, some of the candidates will be shortlisted for a detailed interview on 4th May 2025.
  • The list of shortlisted candidates will be made available on this webpage.
  • All the interviews will be held online. Details regarding the online process will be sent to the candidates via email by the department.


  • [24-04-25]     Eligible candidates have been sent an email (from office.syscon [at] iitb.ac.in) asking them to confirm their participation in the preliminary interviews.

    The candidates must respond (to office.syscon [at] sc.iitb.ac.in) before 5pm on 29th April 2025.



Eligibility for Admission

Candidates with a B.E./B.Tech./M.E./M.Tech. in any branch of Engineering or M.Sc. (Physics or Mathematics), and satisfying the institute eligilibity criteria (see link) are eligible for applying to the doctoral program in Systems and Control Engineering. Eligible candidates will be called for a preliminary interview and then some of them will be shortlisted for a detailed interview based on their performance in the preliminary interview. Candidates should be prepared to be examined on several of the following topics:

  • Classical control including stability, root locus, Bode plots, Nyquist plots and compensator design
  • State-space methods including controllability, observability and feedback control design
  • Basics of dynamical systems
  • Calculus and ordinary differential equations
  • Elementary linear algebra
  • Basic optimization techniques
  • Basics of probability and statistics


Admitted Students
All students admitted to the doctoral program in Systems and Control have to register and clear a minimum of 6 courses (including 4 compulsory courses.) This course requirement is normally completed within two or three semesters of joining the program.

To be considered for admission to Autumn 2025-26 semester the candidates must have filled the application form available at IIT Bombay academic office website link.
For any further queries contact office [dot] syscon [at] iitb [dot] ac [dot] in
Website Maintained by Webteam - SysCon