IIT Guwahati, the sixth member of the IIT group, was established in 1994 and began its academic programme in 1995, according to its about page. Its 285 hectare campus is on the north bank of the Brahmaputra, around 20 km from the centre of Guwahati, Assam. It is listed as an institution of national importance in the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961, as amended.
The institute has eleven departments, seven interdisciplinary academic centres and five schools covering engineering, science, healthcare, management and humanities, and offers degrees from BTech and BDes to MBA, MA and PhD. Its NIRF 2026 data submission reported 3,923 undergraduate, 1,814 postgraduate, 1,833 full time PhD and 162 part time PhD students for 2024-25, and Rs 1,826,214,563 received for 425 sponsored projects in 2024-25.