Hello,

The Tamil Nadu Common Entrance Test is conducted by Anna University. The officials have not yet declared the dates for the release of the TANCET 2022 application form. It was expected that the forms will be released in January but it is not yet released. Keep an eye on the official website or the link below for the latest information.

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/tancet

You cannot get admission to IIT Kharagpur with TANCET scores. TANCET is a state-level exam. Here is the list of engineering colleges that accept TANCET scores for admission.

• KCG College of Technology, Chennai
• Mohamed Sathak Engineering College, Kilakarai
• SNS College of Engineering, Coimbatore
• Sri Jayaram Institute of Engineering and Technology, Thiruvallur
• Sri Subramanya College of Engineering and Technology, Palani

Please click the below link to know more about these colleges

https://engineering.careers360.com/colleges/list-of-engineering-colleges-in-india?degree=B.E%20/B.Tech&exam=TANCET

See Food Technology is an applied interdisciplinary field. Although it has industrial need but it have lower placements. As you aren't concerned about that, I would say IIT KGP will be a better choice for you. The institute have good faculties in this field with good research experiences. The infrastructure & the quality of education are just amazing there. IIT GUWAHATI is also good, but from the academic criterion, it don't have that much of field experts as IIT KGP. The lab infrastructure are better in IIT Guwahati but the applied field structure of curriculum are very well designed in IIT KGP. So I would recommend you to go for the IIT KGP for Food Technology.

For more information regarding IIT KGP you can visit the link below:

https://www.careers360.com/university/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur

For more information regarding IIT G visit the link below:

https://www.careers360.com/university/indian-institute-of-technology-guwahati

I hope this helps. Wish you a very productive evening!

Hello aspirant,

Both M.Tech Food Processing Engineering in Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and International Joint Master of Technology (M.Tech.) degree (IMD) in Food Science and Technology offered by Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati and Gifu University, a national University in Japan are best at there places. There are only 5 seats for Indians and another 5 seats for Japan students for Joint Master of Technology in Food Technology course in Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati which has high competition. If you can get seat then go for it or else go for M.Tech in Food Processing Engineering in Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur because it has 30 seats for this course. As you know both the Institutions has the brand called IIT, so both of them are good at their academics and placements.

To get more information about M.Tech Food Processing Engineering course in Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur go through below mentioned link.

https://www.careers360.com/university/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur/mtech-food-process-engineering-course

I hope this information will help you.

All The Best!!

Hello Student

Food scientist candidates has to expertise himself in food Science and food microbiology. To be a expert for skilled in the sector of critical thinking, analytical knowledge, data analysis, good communications, decision making, observation, and mathematics. The candidate should have a post graduate degree in food Science  have to research work degree of PhD in food Science. On the other hand  the candidate may be of Mtech in food engineering degree from IIT Kharagpur will be very much helpful to  you to become a food scientist and work in this field successfully.

Hope this will help.

Hello Subbu,

Food processing is considered as a lower branch in all the colleges and if seen from the practical aspect , in india there is very less scope in the food processing stream or in the horeca buisness.

If you want to pursue this career then i would recommend you to kindly look for abroad colleges for your post graduation and if possible kindly change your branch.

But also keep in mind if you are not able to change your branch then it doesn't mean it's a waste doing this degree. After all you are in iit and there are many companies which allows for non core stream even from this branch.

Hi Aspirant,

Hope you are doing great.

I am sharing with you the eligibility criteria and admission process of IIT Kharagpur for MTech in food processing.

Eligibility criteria is that you must have passed Bachelor's Degree in Engineering/Technology/Architecture/M.Sc or equivalent professional degrees (AMIE etc.) and having a valid GATE score. You need to make sure that your GATE marks are above the cut-off marks of your category and GATE paper.

Admission is based on gate score or gate score( 70% weightage) and then a personal interview round. A personal interview is necessary because it tests motivation and aptitude for the Programme, suitability for the department/center, Skills in basic science, engineering, and relevant areas. And one more thing is that the personal interview will be conducted at IIT Kharagpur only.

Hope this helps.

Fields like Food Technology, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering etc are not that much package wise best as we used to hear about the field such as CSE, Electrical etc. So its discouraging yet true that the packages of BTech in Agriculture & Food Technology at IIT KGP, will not be as good as CSE. The salary package on average is around Rs. 6-8 LPA CTC & with time it may increase but the starting salary isn't usually very much higher than this.

For more information regarding the IIT KGP visit:

https://www.careers360.com/university/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur

For more info about the career in Food Technology visit:

https://www.careers360.com/courses/b-tech-in-food-technology

I hope this helps. All the best!

Hello Krishna,

You have not mentioned your Caste Category, so I'm considering it as General Category.

See it is difficult to determine before cut-offs changes from year to year and may depend on many factors.

You must have minimum 60 percentage if you belong to general category and 55 percentage if you belong to reservation category, in Graduation from a recognised Board.

Previous year's cut-off Rank for  M.Tech Food Processing Technology in Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur are given below.

Previous year's GATE cut-offs:

General Category: 741 Cut-off Rank

EWS Category: 567 Cut-off Rank

OBC Category:  688 Cut-off Rank

SC Category: 461 Cut-off Rank

ST Category: 407 Cut-off Rank

To get more information about M.Tech Food Processing Technology in Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur go through below mentioned link.

https://www.careers360.com/university/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur/mtech-food-process-engineering-course

To check previous year's GATE cut-offs of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur go through below mentioned link.

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/gate-cutoff-for-iit-kharagpur

Visit below link to predict Colleges you can get for your GATE ranka nd also chances of getting PSUs.

https://engineering.careers360.com/gate-college-predictor

I hope this information was useful to you.

All The Best!!

Hey!

IIT KGP accepts only XE and AG GATE scores for Food Process Engineering. They haven't started to admit GATE XL students yet.

So the Answer to your question is NO.

Dear applicant considering the honest scenario of the inner educational atmosphere of the Colleges unless you get IIM Lucknow, Ahmedabad or Kolkata, it is not that satisfactory to take admission in the other ones. Whereas in case of IITs like IIT Madras, or IIT Kanpur it is way too better than to choose the less preferable IITs. So it is extremely important to get the seat at a good Institution, choose wisely.

Good luck!!