Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar | IIT Gandhinagar | Bird's Eye View | 2002-2021 | 4K
0Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (also known as IIT Gandhinagar or IITGN) is a public engineering institution located in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. It has been declared to be an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India. Established in 2008, IIT Gandhinagar campus is spread over 400 acres of land along the river Sabarmati.
IIT Gandhinagar is one of the eight Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) announced by the Ministry of Human Resource Development in 2008. The institute began operating in a temporary campus at Vishwakarma Government Engineering College, Chandkheda, mentored by Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. The first batch of students was admitted to three programmes: Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering.
IITGN was included in the Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Act, 2011. The Act was passed in the Lok Sabha on 24 March 2011 and by the Rajya Sabha on 30 April 2012.
The 400-acre campus of IITGN is situated on the banks of Sabarmati Village in Palaj Village. The campus has three rough divisions: Academic Block, Housing Block and Student Hostels. This campus is India's first 5-star GRIHA LD campus for minimizing the negative effect on the environment. IITGN has also been bestowed with FSSAI's 'Eat Right Campus' with a 5-star rating and is the first (and only) academic campus to be declared so.
Student Hostels
There are a total of 12 hostel buildings of which 6 are newly constructed. All hostel rooms are air-conditioned. The buildings are equipped with high speed WiFi and LAN facilities to cater to the students' academic needs. The hostels have a spacious common library and reading area. There is a common game room in the hostels itself which is equipped with games like Foosball and Air-Hockey amongst other board games. All the blocks are accessible to people with disabilities.
Admission
Admission to these programs is through taking the Joint Entrance Examination – Advanced (JEE-Advanced). The institute also offers Masters and PhD studies in various fields in engineering, sciences and humanities, and social sciences. Admissions to these graduate programs are through written test and/or interviews.
B.Tech. – Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Computer Science and Engineering
M.Tech. – Biological Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Earth System Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering.
MSc – Chemistry, Cognitive Science, Mathematics, and Physics
MA – Society and Culture
PhD – Engineering (Chemical, Civil, Computer Science, Electrical, Mechanical, and Materials Science and Engineering), Sciences (Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Earth Sciences) and Humanities & Social Sciences (Cognitive Science, English, Philosophy, Sociology, History, Language & Literature, Political Science, Psychology, Social Epidemiology and Sociology, and other disciplines).
In 2011, 117 undergraduate students were admitted to the 2012 batch, and 134 students were admitted to the 2013 batch. Admission to IIT Gandhinagar's postgraduate programmes are even more competitive than the undergraduate programmes, with a selectivity ratio of 0.5%.
Ranking
Among engineering colleges, IIT Gandhinagar was ranked 18th by India Today in 2020. The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranked it 24th among engineering institutes in 2020, and 35st overall.
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