(TLC) Tinkerer's Laboratory – variety of scientific instruments including scientific instruments, electronic components, 3D printers, CNCs, workstations etc. Incubation centers iTIC Incubator at IIT Hyderabad Center for Healthcare Entrepreneurship Fabless Chip Design Incubator Academics IIT Hyderabad offers BTech and MTech degrees in ten disciplines of Engineering, B Des and M Des degree in design and MSc degrees in science. In 2019, the institute started offering M. A. in Development Studies. The institute also offers PhD across all disciplines of engineering, sciences and liberal arts. At the institute, every semester, undergraduate students have the option to take courses in liberal arts and creative arts such macroeconomics, introductory psychology, introduction to the Japanese, French, or German language, introduction to carnatic or western classical music, theater, pottery and ceramics and Madhubani painting. It uses a Fractal Academic System, involving continuous evaluation of students, and more choices on subject they want to pursue outside their core area. Admission Admission to BTech programs is through the Joint Entrance Examination – Advanced for 285 seats. Among all the IITs, IIT Kanpur and IIT Hyderabad had all their seats taken between 2013 and 2017. Admission to the B.Des program is through the Undergraduate Common Entrance Examination for Design (UCEED). The B.Des program started at IIT Hyderabad from August 2019. with 10 seats. All qualified candidates with a valid Common Entrance Examination for Design (CEED) score become eligible to apply for M.Des admission. Admission to MTech programs requires BTech/B.E. degree or equivalent in the respective or allied areas and possessing a Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) score. Admission to the MSc program requires BSc or an equivalent degree with 65% for GE/OBC, 60% for SC/ST or equivalent in the respective or allied areas and possessing a valid Joint Admission Test to MSc (JAM) score. Admission to the M. A. Development Studies program also requires an undergraduate degree and candidates must clear the entrance exam conducted by the institute. Admission to PhD Program requires either BTech/GATE qualification for engineering departments with a good academic background or MTech/GATE qualification for engineering departments or National Eligibility Test (NET) qualification for Science departments. Rankings IIT Hyderabad was ranked 591–600 in the world by the QS World University Rankings 2022 list; it was also ranked 201 in Asia in 2020. In India, IIT Hyderabad was ranked 8 among engineering institutes by the National Institutional Ranking Framework in 2021 and 16 overall. IIT