Tips to become Professor at IITs

You need to have PhD in your area of expertise to be a professor at premier institutions like IITs, NITs, etc.

The road map will be like:

1. First clear GATE and take admission in the best possible college for pursuing M-Tech.
2. Give proper focus to application of knowledge  during your M-Tech.
3. Build Network: This is a dark horse. You will need recommendations at every step. Be so good that people are more than happy to recommend you for internships and jobs, it is no supplement for talent. But, backing of reputed Professors will give a cutting edge advantage in this competitive world.
4. Project works- Give emphasis to the project works. They will help you afterward.
5. Join a Private engineering college as Assistant Professor and do your PhD in parallel. In this way, you will have a decent job and pay and at the same time you can finish your PhD.
6. Be a master on your area of expertise. There is an acute shortage of Professors at prestigious colleges.
7. Get Recognition: Participate in competitions and win certificates, awards, get your project report published in a reputed journal, etc.

Make yourself so strong than IITs would fight with each other to have you as a Professor. You will have a chilled out life and I am writing all this with sufficient experience with people who have been there.

After working for 5 years in IITs and contributing in the research, you can apply to foreign universities and they will give shower you with more money than you would expect.  Mint money for 5-10 years and come back and live like a king in India.

Why to be a Professor (in case you are confused)?

The words of a famous professor of IIT Chennai- No other profession will give you two months of paid leave every years, apart from other perks, accommodation, perquisites, etc.