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lIT
Kharagpur |
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Kharagpur started its journey in the old Hijli Detention Camp where
some of our great freedom fighters toiled and sacrificed their lives
for the independence of our country. The first Indian Institute of Technology
was born in May 1950 in Hijli, Kharagpur, in the eastern part of India.
The present name ‘Indian Institute of Technology’ was adopted
before the formal inauguration of the Institute on August 18, 1951,
by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. On September 15, 1956, the Parliament of
India passed an act known as the Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur)
Act declaring its importance. It has about 18 academic departments and
five centres of excellence. Spreading over 200 acres it has a self-contained
township of over 15,000 inhabitants. |
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Specializations
and Seats : Aeronautical, Agricultural, Ceramic, Chemical, Civil, Computers,
Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical, Metallurgy and Mining. |
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Website
: http://www.iitkgp.ernet.in/ |
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lIT
Chennai |
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The
Institute, with a self-contained campus of nearly 360 faculty, 4,000
students, 1,250 administrative and supporting staff, is located in a
beautiful, wooded land of about 250 hectares in South Chennai. It has
been growing from strength to strength ever since it obtained its charter
from the Indian Parliament in 1961 and has established itself as a premier
centre of teaching, research and industrial consultancy in the country. |
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Specializations
and Seats : Aeronautical, Agricultural, Chemical, Civil, Computers,
Electrical & Electronics, and Mining. |
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Website
: http://www.iitm.ac.in/ |
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lIT
Delhi |
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Established
as College of Engineering in 1961, the institute was later declared
an institution of national importance under the ‘Institutes of
Technology (Amendment) Act, 1963’ and was renamed ‘Indian
Institute of Technology, Delhi.’ It was than accorded the status
of a deemed university with powers to decide its own academic policy,
to conduct its own examinations, and to award its own degrees. |
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Specializations
and Seats : Chemical, Civil, Computers, Electrical, Mechanical, and
Textiles. |
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Website
: http://www.iitd.ernet.in/ |
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lIT
Mumbai |
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lIT Mumbai,
one of the six IITs set up by an Act of Parliament, was established
in 1958, at Powai, a beautiful northern suburb of Mumbai. Today the
institute is recognized as one of the centres of academic excellence
in the country. Over the years, there has been dynamic progress at lIT
Mumbai in all academic and research activities, and a parallel improvement
in facilities and infrastructure, to keep it on par with the best institutions
in the world. |
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Specializations
and Seats : Aeronautical, Chemical, Civil, Computers, Electrical, Mechanical,
Metallurgy, and Others. |
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Website
: http://www.iitb.ernet.in/ |
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lIT
Kanpur |
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The aim of
the institute is to provide meaningful education, to conduct original
research of the highest standard and to provide leadership in technological
innovation for the industrial growth of the country. It began functioning
in the borrowed building of Harcourt Butler Technological Institute
in 1959 with 100 students and a small faculty. The Institute now has
its own sprawling residential campus, about 1,450 undergraduate and
800 postgraduate students, 300 faculty and more than 1,400 supporting
staff. |
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Specializations
and Seats : Aeronautical, Chemical, Civil, Computers, Electrical, Mechanical,
and Metallurgy. |
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Website
: http://www.iitk.ac.in/ |
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lIT
Guwahati |
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Indian Institute
of Technology, Guwahati, the sixth member of the lIT fraternity, was
established in 1994. The academic programme of IIT Guwahati commenced
in 1995. At present the institute has nine departments covering all
the major engineering and science disciplines. Within a short period
of time, lIT Guwahati has been able to build up the necessary infrastructure
for carrying out advanced research and has been equipped with state-of-the-art
scientific and engineering instruments. |
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Specializations
and Seats : Civil, Computers, Electronics, and Mechanical. |
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Website
: http://www.iitg.ernet.in/ |
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lIT
Roorkee |
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The Institute
that began as the Thomason College of Civil Engineering in1847, became
the University of Roorkee in 1949 and has been declared as the 7th Indian
Institute of Technology in 2001. |
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IIT Roorkee
is situated in the foothills of Himalayas in the newly formed state
of Uttaranchal and is surrounded by breathtaking scenic beauty. In this
peaceful ambience, the Institute is spread over a sprawling area of
more than 150 hectares and about 3500 strong student community and with
educational national of more than 50 countries particularly from Asia
and Africa, the institute has a truly global face. The campus is a virtual
haven of rare flora and fauna found in the Himalayas and forms an ideal
backdrop for all individuals who believe in the pursuit of excellence
in peace and solitude, be it in academics or in tests of endurance in
the rugged and majestic mountainside. |
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Bachelor's
Degree courses are offered in 10 disciplines in Engineering and Architecture;
The institute boasts of the largest number of academic departments (19)
and research centers (27) among all technical institutions in India
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