admitted into the various B.Tech. programs through the Joint Entrance Examination – Advanced (JEE(Adv)), which is typically taken by engineering aspirants after completion of their 10+2 schooling. Admission to the M.Tech/MS/Ph.D programs is done through Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), and the Joint Admission Test (JAM) is conducted for taking MSc students. Rankings Internationally, the IIT Indore was ranked 396 in the QS World University Rankings of 2023 and 185 in Asia. It was ranked 601–800 in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2023, 87 in Asia in 2022 and 84 among emerging economies. In India, it was ranked 10 among engineering colleges by the National Institutional Ranking Framework in 2020. Research The primary engineering research areas of IIT Indore are as follows: Department of Computer Science and Engineering - Algorithms and Theoretical Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Cyber Security, Soft Computing, CAD-VLSI, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer Vision, Embedded Systems, Internet of Things (IoT) Department of Electrical Engineering - Semiconductor Devices Physics and Technology, Bio-medical Signal Processing, Organic electronic/photonic devices, VLSI, ULSI Circuit, and System Design, Power Electronics and Power Systems Department of Mechanical Engineering - Additive Manufacturing, Mechatronics, Internal Combustion Engines, Thermal and Fluid Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Energy Storage, Surface Engineering, Vibration and Noise Control Department of Civil Engineering - Structural Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Water Resource Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Glaciohydrology Department of Metallurgy and Material Science - Smart Materials, Nano Materials, MEMS/NEMS, Computational Materials, and Condensed Matter Physics IIT Indore leads all the new IITs in terms of total citations as well as h-index as of 2015. Abstracting and indexing database Scopus has rated IIT Indore as the top among the new IITs, followed by seven IITs of Ropar, Patna, Bhubaneswar, Hyderabad, Gandhinagar and Jodhpur. IIT Indore's formal undergraduate research scheme is entitled, "Promotion of Research and Innovation for Undergraduate Students (PRIUS)". IIT Indore actively participates in international projects and joint collaborations with research organizations in Japan, South Korea, the Russian Federation, Portugal, France, Germany, and USA. It started the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre (IEDC) to encourage entrepreneurship. Research facilities The institute provides instruments/facilities such as Nuclear Magnetic resonance spectrometer, CAD Tools for Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Design, Single crystal X-ray diffractometer, Time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC), Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy, Dual ion beam sputtering deposition (DIBSD) system, Spin Coater, Optical Surface Metrology System Profiler,