Undergraduate students would be able to study on 23 campuses of IITs.

By allowing the transfer of credits for courses taken at another IIT, the Indian Institutes of Technology intend to enable undergraduate students to study on all 23 campuses across the country. At its August meeting last year, the IIT Council—the institutes' highest coordinating body—made this recommendation. A goal of "5% undergraduate student exchange across IITs, ensuring smooth credit transfer for courses taken at other IITs" was established.Details are being worked out, and each IIT will need to resolve the issue at the Senate level, according to Professor Prathap Haridoss, Dean (Academic Courses), IIT Madras. "There is consensus at the Council level, and we are working on the conditions under which we will enable this. However, in terms of procedure, we are formalising a document that would require the fundamental agreement of all senates. As more senators approve it, we can then begin implementing it. We are still working on the document.

"Having a shared document would be better," Prof. Haridoss stated.Prof. Haridoss stated that it is being worked out, even if the Council meeting brought up the topic of 5% of undergraduate students. There will be operational limitations. "If there are more students entering an institution than leaving, the hostel capacity will be a constraint when we enable transfers," he stated."We provide admissions for distinction in the fine arts and culture as well as athletics. If Delhi has excellent coaching facilities, a student who is admitted under the sports excellence program might be able to attend IIT Delhi for one or two semesters, finish their coaching, and then return. We felt the need to allow pupils to move because these avenues weren't there before," he explained.In the past, we exclusively offered summer internships, which ran from May to July. But it was restricting to many. Therefore, we have set up our curriculum so that students only have electives in the sixth semester. Four electives are available. The credit requirements allow students to move those four electives to the prior or subsequent semester, freeing them their whole sixth semester for an internship. They won't have to postpone their electives to a later semester if we allow transfers," he continued.