IIT Madras offers awards and prizes to the deserving candidates in almost all disciplines in B.Tech and M.Tech. The awards cover both academic and extra-curricular activities. Several of the prizes and awards are donated by businesses and individuals.
Awards to students are presented on three occasions: Convocation Day, Institute Day and Alumni Nite. Here are the list of recent awardees and the prizes/awards awarded to them.
| Award Name | Awardee Name | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Air India Prize | Panduri Bhavya Naidu | Aerospace Engineering |
| Alumni Association Prize | Harshavardhan P K | Computer Science and Engineering |
| Kavya G | Computer Science and Engineering | |
| American Bureau of Shipping Prize | Amit Kumar Rathi | Ocean Engineering |
| Dhruv Bhagtani | Nano Sciences | |
| Relekar Hrishikesh Ajit | Nano Sciences | |
| American Express Award | Kavya G | Computer Science and Engineering |
| Palika Charitha | Bio-Technology | |
| American Express Top Achievement Award | Aman Jalan | Mechanical Engineering |
| B Ravichandran Memorial Prize | Aswin Chandrasekar | Chemical Engineering |
| R Raghul | Computer Science and Engineering | |
| B.Krishnamurthy Award | Arvind Pujari | Metallurgical and Materials Engineering |
| Banco Foundation Prize | Dinesh Bompada | Mechanical Engineering |
| Batch of 1979 Award | Rubaiya Y | Bio-Technology |
| Sneha Munshi | Bio-Technology | |
| Bhagyalakshmi and Krishna Ayengar Award | Aman Vaibhav | Mechanical Engineering |
| Archanaa | Bio-Technology | |
| Deepak Prakash K | Engineering Design | |
| Gaurav Pandey | Ocean Engineering | |
| Sai Smruti Samantaray | Physics | |
| Bharat Ratna M Visvesvaraya Memorial Prize | Rajat Vadiraj Dwaraknath | Electrical Engineering |
| Biocon Prize | Anand A R | Biological Engineering |
| Biswajit Sain Endowment prize | Arun Thangamani | Computer Science and Engineering |
| Indrani Roy | Computer Science and Engineering | |
| Suman Banerjee | Computer Science and Engineering | |
| Buti Foundation Gold Medal Award | Palika Charitha | Bio-Technology |
| C. Sivaram Murthy Best B.Tech Project Award | Prashanth Amireddy | Computer Science and Engineering |
| Sai Jayasurya | Computer Science and Engineering | |
| Class NK-100 Prize | Abdul Rauf N K | Nano Sciences |
| Relekar Hrishikesh Ajit | Nano Sciences | |
| CMC Prize | Bateesh | Computer Science and Engineering |
| Coka Parthasarathy Prize | Santhosh Egappan R | Management Studies |
| Dr Dhandapani Memorial Prize | Kumaresh K R | Metallurgical and Materials Engineering |
| Dr Dilip Veeraraghavan Memorial Award | Melwin James | Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Dr K Subba Raju Memorial Prize | Jishnusankar Ks | Chemical Engineering |
| Dr M Mukunda Rao Endowment Prize | Nimal J Kumar | Electrical Engineering |
| Dr N R Dave Prize | Nookala Harsha Vardhan | Civil Engineering |
| Dr S R Ramadas 60th Birthday Commemoration Award | Anannya Banerjee | Chemistry |
| Dr S S Srikanta Prize | Palika Charitha | Bio-Technology |
| Dr S Vaidyanathan Memorial Prize | Anirudh B Krishnan | Mechanical Engineering |
| Kopparthi Mouli | Mechanical Engineering | |
| Dr Shankar Dayal Sharma Prize | Arvind Pujari | Metallurgical and Materials Engineering |
| Dr V Mohan Raman Prize | S K Venkatesh | Aerospace Engineering |
| Dr. Susan Calvin prize | Kamthe Aniket Anil | Mechanical Engineering |
| Dr.K.Gopinath & Padmini Gopinath Prize | Deepak Prakash K | Engineering Design |
| GE Ecomagination Excellence Award | AJAY PIRIYA V S | Physics |
| Goodearth Shipbuilding Pvt.Ltd.Prize | Khare Akshay Dilip | Nano Sciences |
| Governor's Prize | Hari Ramachandran | Metallurgical and Materials Engineering |
| HAL Prize | Rudra Sethu Viji | Aerospace Engineering |
| Hema Balasubramanian Excellence Award | Chari Rajas Premanand | Engineering Physics |
| IBM best Thesis Award | Jithin Vachery | Computer Science and Engineering |
| Manas Thakur | Computer Science and Engineering | |
| Monosij Maitra | Computer Science and Engineering | |
| Institute Merit Prize | Amit Kumar Rathi | Ocean Engineering |
| Anand A R | Biological Engineering | |
| Arundhati Medya | Bio-Technology | |
| Hari Ramachandran | Metallurgical and Materials Engineering | |
| Kalluri Asha Kiran | Civil Engineering | |
| Melwin James | Humanities and Social Sciences | |
| Palika Charitha | Bio-Technology | |
| Sambit Mishra | Nano Sciences | |
| SINDHUJA V | Management Studies | |
| K Devarajan Memorial Prize | Chaudhari Ankit Anil | Civil Engineering |
| K V Arunkumar Memorial Prize | Chetan Agarwal | Management Studies |
| L & T Endowment Prize | Yugant Kapur | Civil Engineering |
| Lakshmi Ravi Prize | Harshavardhan P K | Computer Science and Engineering |
| Larsen & Toubro ECC Endowment Prize | J Eswar Avinash | Civil Engineering |
| Mayan Prize | S K Venkatesh | Aerospace Engineering |
| Mico-Bosch Prize | Pushpak Yashawant Nemade | Mechanical Engineering |
| Mira Paul Memorial Prize | Sourav Sarkar | Mathematics |
| Mrs. Abayambal & Mr. Natarajan Award | Ajay Piriya V S | Physics |
| Philips India Prize | Alfred Festus Davidson | Electrical Engineering |
| Prema & Nagaraja Setty prize | Deepak Prakash K | Engineering Design |
| President of India Prize | Rajat Vadiraj Dwaraknath | Electrical Engineering |
| Prof A L Lashkar Prize | Pradip Laha | Physics |
| Pranab Parimal Biswas | Physics | |
| Prof A V Krishna Rao Memorial Award | Aswathy Venugopal | Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Teza M George | Humanities and Social Sciences | |
| Prof Achim Bopp Endowment Prize | Alfred Festus Davidson | Electrical Engineering |
| Mrinmoy Saha | Electrical Engineering | |
| Prof B Sengupto Prize | Sarthak Rastogi | Mechanical Engineering |
| Prof B V A Rao Endowment Prize | Vinothkrishnan V | Applied Mechanics |
| Prof C N Pillai Prize | Naziya Parveen | Chemistry |
| Prof Chilukury Rama Sastry Memorial Prize | Anant Rastogi | Physics |
| Prof G Sundararajan Endowment Prize | Anup Mandal | Chemistry |
| Soniya Gandhi | Chemistry | |
| Prof G V N Rayudu (IIT Madras) Prize | Aman Jalan | Mechanical Engineering |
| Prof H N Mahabala Endowment Prize | Shahbaz Husain | Computer Science and Engineering |
| Prof Helmut Neunzert Endowment Prize | Nitish Dobhal | Mathematics |
| Prof J Sobhanadri Prize | Saran Vijayan | Physics |
| Prof Juergen Plaehn Prize | Anujith K Babu | Civil Engineering |
| Prof K A V Pandalai Prize | Payal Mishra | Ocean Engineering |
| Prof Langmuir Prize | Abhijit Nag | Chemistry |
| Kartik R | Chemistry | |
| Prof M Ramanujam Memorial Award | Maddineni Srinivasaraq | Chemical Engineering |
| Prof R Krishnamurthy Endowment Award | Omkar Baswaraj Bembalge | Mechanical Engineering |
| Prithviraj Mukhopadhyay | Mechanical Engineering | |
| Prof Ramamohana Rao Memorial Prize | Sarthak Rastogi | Mechanical Engineering |
| Prof S Radhakrishnan Award | Kiran Kumar G R | Applied Mechanics |
| Rohini P | Applied Mechanics | |
| Prof Werner Prize | Koushik Saha | Chemistry |
| Nanaji Katchala | Chemistry | |
| Prof. V Ramamurti Award | Chandan Bose | Applied Mechanics |
| Prof. Vallam Sundar Prize | Dinesh Kumar E | Ocean Engineering |
| R Suchithra R | Ocean Engineering | |
| Rajnikant Gandhi Memorial Award | Anshu Abhinav | Civil Engineering |
| Ratna Rao Memorial Prize | Deeksha | Chemistry |
| Reliance Heat Transfer Pvt. Ltd. Prize | Gangal Chinmay Shripad | Chemical Engineering |
| S Anantharamakrishnan Memorial Prize | Mythreyi Ramesh | Metallurgical and Materials Engineering |
| S Anantharamakrishnan Merit Prize | Mahesh M S | Mechanical Engineering |
| Shree Gaayathree Devi Award | Swathy Manohar | Civil Engineering |
| Shri M.N. Ramachandran and Smt.Gowri Appadorai Ramachandran Prize | Melwin James | Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Siemens Prize | Priyatham Kattakinda | Electrical Engineering |
| Rajat Vadiraj Dwaraknath | Electrical Engineering | |
| Sivasailam Merit Prize | Surya R | Mechanical Engineering |
| Smt D L Saraswati Memorial Prize | Danam Mahesh | Chemical Engineering |
| Smt Jayalakshmi & Sri.R Narasiman Prize | Piriya Saisujan | Civil Engineering |
| Smt Lakshmikutty Amma and Shri A Krishnankutty Nair Prize | Arvind Kumar | Mathematics |
| Sri K Sreeharsha Memorial Prize | C G Krishnaunni | Civil Engineering |
| Jones Oju | Civil Engineering | |
| Sri Krishnamurthy Sundarambal Prize | Swarnendu Banerjee | Physics |
| Sri N Kannan Prize | Sujatha M | Management Studies |
| Sri R N Rajendran Memorial Prize | Neethu Mohammed | Management Studies |
| Suchitra Veeravalli | Management Studies | |
| Sri RRP SINHA & VIMLA DEWI Prize | Chekka Sri Durga Vidya Meghana | Petroleum Engineering |
| Sri S V Balakrishnan Prize | Abhishek Sharma | Catalysis |
| Sri. Jandhyala Lakshmi Kantam & Srimati Sitamahalakshmi Prize | Anirban Chakraborty | Physics |
| Niharika Gunturu | Engineering Physics | |
| Sri.V. Srinivasan Memorial Prize | Alfred Festus Davidson | Electrical Engineering |
| Subramaniam Rajalakshmi Indira Endowment | Sajay V | Chemical Engineering |
| Sudharshan Bhatt Memorial Prize | Rahul M R | Metallurgical and Materials Engineering |
| Supriya Anand | Metallurgical and Materials Engineering | |
| Sushruta Award | Pagadala Nalini | Applied Mechanics |
| T. S. Vedagiri Memorial Award | Akhilesh K | Electrical Engineering |
| The Divashri Award | Deepak | Biological Sciences |
| Valli Anantharamakrishnan Merit Prize | Kalluri Asha Kiran | Civil Engineering |
| Vijay Jagannathan Award | Kumaresh K R | Metallurgical and Materials Engineering |