No, Shushant singh rajput is not an IITian .He was a National olympiad Winner in Physics he also cleared 11 engineering entrance exams including that for ISM Dhanbad and he secured AIR-7 in Delhi common entrance consequently he joined Delhi College of Engineering(now known as DTU) in mechanical engineering department . While being a student at DTU , he enrolled in Shiamak Davar’s dance classes. He also joined acting school, here he found his passion for acting . Within a few months of joining the dance class, Rajput was selected to be a member of Davar's standard dance troupe. In 2005, he was chosen to be one of the group of background dancers at the 51st Filmfare awards. In 2006, he was part of the troupe that went to Australia to perform in the cultural program at the opening ceremony of the 2006 Commonwealth games. By this time, he was tired of engineering, where he was failing papers and had no real interest in the subject. He was happy and successful in the dance and drama classes, and decided to do what he was good at. He dropped out of engineering and devoted himself full-time to dancing and acting. So, he is a drop out from DTU, he dropped in the beginning of the fourth year of his graduation .