Indian Institute of Technology Indore | IIT Indore | Bird's Eye View | 2000-2021 | 4K
Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IIT Indore) is an autonomous public technical and research institute located in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. IIT Indore was founded in 2009, among the eight young Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). IIT Indore is officially recognized as an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India.
Founded in 2009, it is one of the eight new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) established by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India under The Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Act, 2011 which declares eight new IITs as well as the conversion of Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University to IIT. The Act was passed in the Lok Sabha on 24 March 2011 and by the Rajya Sabha on 30 April 2012. Arjun Singh, the then HRD minister of India laid the foundation stone of IIT Indore on 17 February 2009 in its permanent campus located in Simrol, Indore, Madhya Pradesh. The institution started functioning from 2009-10 in a temporary campus at Institute of Engineering and Technology of Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya under mentorship of IIT Bombay with Pradeep Mathur as the director.The first batch of IIT Indore graduated in 2013, and the institute celebrated its first Convocation Day on 8 June 2013.
Admission to the B.Tech programs is through the Joint Entrance Examination – Advanced (JEE(Adv)), and students are admitted after completing 10+2 schooling. Admission to the M.Tech/Ph.D programs is through Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) - for M.Tech/M.S./Ph.D and Joint Admission Test for M.Sc. (JAM).
IIT Indore was ranked 351-400 in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2020,[46] 55 in Asia[47] and 61 among emerging economies.[48] In India it was ranked 10 among engineering colleges by the National Institutional Ranking Framework in 2020
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