The college provides separate hostels for boys and girls. Students are provided accommodation on a twin-sharing basis and all rooms have attached bathrooms. The hostels ensure comfortable living of the students by providing them all the modern amenities such as television, internet connectivity through Wi-FI and LAN, well-equipped twin-sharing rooms, study rooms, indoor games room, etc. Hot water is provided through solar heaters. The hostels also have a spacious dining area, heavy-duty washing machine, in-house facility for playing football, volleyball, basketball and table tennis.

IIT Palakkad offers girls hostel with all the modern facilities and amenities such as well-equipped double sharing rooms, 24*7 hot water, internet connectivity, television, etc. The hostel also has double/triple sharing rooms with attached bathrooms, a spacious dining hall, a well-equipped recreational area, an indoor games area, a fitness centre, RO based drinking water system and a common room with television, newspaper and magazines.

The institute has MOUs with a variety of hospitals for cashless medical attention of the teachers and students. The students are also covered with a comprehensive medical insurance scheme for a nominal yearly subscription.

The institute offers a well-equipped gym with modern equipment such as treadmills, dumbbells, bench, climbing rope etc.

The library of the institute has a wide collection of books, magazines, national and international journals. The Library's operations are fully automated, and students can access the library online at any time. They can also renew and reserve books using the Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC). The library also has printed barcodes and RFID-tagged books (textbooks, references, popular sciences and literature) for the benefit of the students.

The college has well-equipped sports grounds for football, volleyball, table tennis, chess, martial arts etc. The institute also offers trainers for making students efficient in a variety of games.

The Chandra is a high-performance computing cluster (HPC) that provides a powerful computing platform for engineering and physical science research. The HPC is made up of 64 compute nodes, each of which is equipped with a twin 12-core Intel processor. Each CPU has a clock speed of 2.2 GHz and 4 GB of RAM.

The institute offers a cafeteria that provides healthy and hygienic food to its students.

IIT Palakkad has an auditorium that is used for a variety of purposes such as guest lecturers, speaker sessions and a variety of cultural programmes. The auditorium is well-equipped with projectors, a white screen and an audio-visual system.

The institute offers transport services from the Ahalia campus to Palakkad stadium.

The campus offers high-speed Wi-Fi connectivity 24*7 to ensure practical learning for the students.

The campus offers a variety of ATM facilities to take care of the financial needs of the teachers and students.

The mini supermarket is located near Ahalia Diabetic Hospital. It can be used for buying items of daily needs of the students.