The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras hosted its 58th convocation on November 20, which saw a total of 1,962 students graduating from the institute this year. As many as the 2,425 degrees were awarded to students on the occasion.

Out of the total, 399 were awarded to BTech students (24 with Honours), 379 were dual degree BTech and MTech, 366 MTech, 139 MSc, 44 MA, 42 executive MBA, 61 MBA of whom one is jointly with the University of Passau in Germany, 148 MS, 72 web-enabled MTech (including the first batch of 23 students in information security and 28 students in automotive technology) for executives. As many as 311 PhD degrees were awarded which also include 6 joint degrees with universities in Australia — one each with Curtin, Deakin, as  well as Swinburne universities and three with University of Technology.

The chief guest was Olympic medallist and badminton world champion PV Sindhu, Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna, and Padma Bhushan awardee Dr Pawan Goenka, Chairman, Board of Governors, IIT Madras, presided over the Convocation in the presence of Prof Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Director, IIT Madras.

Addressing the graduands virtually, Sindhu said, “I would like to congratulate the graduates and their parents for their hard work…You have to keep trying. You have achieved a lot. You have to keep learning a lot more in life. This is just not the end. You need to learn different things and try out different things. You should not stop only with one thing but you learn a lot more. It does not matter if you fail or get success.”