IIT KHARAPUR DETAILS,BRANCHES, FEES STRUCTURE, RANKING,CAMPUS,PLACEMENTS,ETC

                                                 IIT-KHARAGPUR

HISTORY  

With the help of Bidhan Chandra Roy (chief minister of West Bengal), Indian educationalists Humayun Kabir and Jogendra Singh formed a committee in 1946 to consider the creation of higher technical institutions "for post-war industrial development of India. This was followed by the creation of a 22-member committee headed by Nalini Ranjan Sarkar. In its interim report, the Sarkar Committee recommended the establishment of higher technical institutions in India, along the lines of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. with affiliated secondary institutions. The report urged that work should start with the speedy establishment of major institutions in the four quarters of the country with the ones in the east and the west to be set up immediately.

On the grounds that West Bengal had the highest concentration of industries at the time, Roy persuaded Jawaharlal Nehru (India's first prime minister) to establish the first institute in West Bengal. The first Indian Institute of Technology was thus established in May 1950 as the Eastern Higher Technical Institute. It was located in Esplanade East, Calcutta, and in September 1950 shifted to its permanent campus at Hijli, Kharagpur 120 kilometres southwest of Kolkata. When the first session started in August 1951, there were 224 students and 42 teachers in the ten departments of the institute. The classrooms, laboratories and the administrative office were housed in the historic building of the Hijli Detention Camp (now known as Shaheed Bhawan), where political revolutionaries were imprisoned and executed during the British rule. The office building had served as the headquarters of the Bomber Command of the U.S. 20th Air Force during World War II. To honour Bidhan Chandra Roy, the area in front of the main building is named Bidhan Chowk.
The name "Indian Institute of Technology" was adopted before the formal inauguration of the institute on 18 August 1951 by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. On 15 September 1956, the Parliament of India passed the Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur) Act declaring it an Institute of National Importance. Prime Minister Nehru, gave the first convocation address of IIT Kharagpur in 1956.
The Shaheed Bhawan was converted to a museum in 1990. The Srinivasa Ramanujan Complex was incorporated as another academic complex of the institute with Takshashila starting operation in 2002 and Vikramshila in 2003.

Motto

The motto of IIT Kharagpur is "Yoga Karmashu Kaushalam"  in Sanskrit. The motto literally translates to "Excellence in action is Yoga" essentially implying that doing your work well is (true) yoga. It is sourced to Sri Krishna's discourse to Arjuna in Bhagavad Gita. This quote in its larger context of Gita urges man to acquire equanimity because such a soul endowed with the mind of equanimity allows him to shed the effects of his good and evil deeds in this world itself. Equanimity is the source of perfection in Karmic endeavors while leading to Salvation.

Campus

IIT Kharagpur is located 120 kilometres (75 mi) west of Kolkata. The campus is located five kilometres away from Kharagpur's railway station. The layout of the present campus and the design of the buildings were carried out by a group of engineers and architects under the guidance of Werner M. Moser, a Swiss architect. The 08.5 square kilometres (2,100 acres) campus is residence to about 20,000 inhabitants. In 2006, IIT Kharagpur had about 470 faculty members, 1,933 employees and approximately 5,500 students living on the campus.The campus has a total of 55  kilometres (34 miles) of roadways.
The 21 student hostels are located on either side of Scholars Avenue, which extends from the institute gate to the B. C. Roy Technology Hospital. The three earliest halls—Patel, Azad, and Nehru—together constitute the PAN loop or Old Campus, which is located just next to Scholar's Avenue. There are nine hostels for undergraduate male students (MMM, RP, RK, MS, LLR, HJB, Patel, Azad and Nehru) and one for undergraduate female students (SN). Another hostel for women has been constructed.Two new hostels — Ambedkar Hostel and Lal Bahadur Shastri Hostel — were completed by mid-2011.There are a few post-graduate students' hostels including two for women and two hostels for research scholars (BCR and JCB) and a separate hostel for scholars from the armed forces.The Jnan Ghosh stadium and Tata Sports Complex host large-scale sports competitions. The Tagore Open Air Theatre has a capacity of 3,000 people, and is used to host cultural programs. The Science and Technology Entrepreneurs' Park (STEP) provides infrastructure facilities to alumni who want to become entrepreneurs but lack infrastructure to start their own corporation.
In addition to the main campus at Kharagpur, the institute has an extension centre at Kolkata to provide venues for continuing education programmes, distance learning courses, and guesthouse accommodation. The institute plans to expand the Kolkata extension centre at Rajarhat, and use it to offer full-time undergraduate and postgraduate courses from the 2008 session onwards.The 10-acre (40,000 m²) Rajarhat campus will house 2,500 students, and will eventually expand to 250 acres (1.0 km²).The institute's plan for a similar branch campus of 200 acres (0.81 km²) in Bhubaneswar was scrapped following rejection by the Union Human Resource and Development ministry.

Academic buildings

IIT Kharagpur has 19 academic departments, eight multi-disciplinary centres/schools, and 13 schools of excellence in addition to laboratories and central research facilities. Apart from the main building in the central academic complex, the Srinivasa Ramanujan Complex also has common academic facilities. In the S. R. Complex, the Takshashila building houses the G. S. Sanyal School of Telecommunication, the School of Information Technology and the Computer and Informatics Centre; and has facilities for conducting lecture classes as well. Vikramshila is another academic building in the S. R. Complex, having four lecture halls, several seminar rooms, and Kalidas Auditorium, which has a seating capacity of 850. The School of Medical Science and Technology is housed in the basement of the Vikramshila building.
The institute main building houses most of the administrative offices, the lecture halls, and two auditoriums on either side. The signage at the front displays the message," Dedicated to the service of the nation." The tower of the main building has a steel tank with 10,000 imperial gallons of water capacity for emergency supply needs. The Netaji Auditorium in the main building is used for official functions and events, and doubles as a cinema theatre on weekend nights, showing movies to the IIT community at subsidised rates.
IIT Kharagpur's first library was located in a small room of the institute's Old Building (Shaheed Bhawan). At the time of its opening in 1951, the library had a collection of 2,500 books. Now located in the main building of the institute, the Central Library is one of the largest of its type. Its collection includes over 350,000 books and documents, and it subscribes to more than 1,600 printed and online journals and conference proceedings.

The library has six halls and a section exclusively for SC and ST students. The library's collection consists of books, reports, conference proceedings, back volumes of periodicals, standards, theses, micro-forms, CD-ROMs, floppies, and audio-visual material. The library's transaction service is automated and online searches are possible through an Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC). The Electronic Library section has a collection of databases, video lectures and miscellaneous other resources.
The Nehru Museum of Science and Technology has over a hundred indoor exhibits that include technical models collected from institutions across India. The park outside the museum contains 14 open-air demonstrations and outdoor exhibits, including a hunter plane and a steam engine. The museum has an archive room, showing documents relating to the history of the institute and West Midnapore district.The Rural Museum, located in the Rural Development Centre of the institute, has a collection of exhibits in local culture.

Civic amenities

The institute campus has six guest houses, a civic hospital, four nationalised banks, four schools, a railway reservation counter and a police station. The campus has a water pumping station, electrical sub-station, telephone exchange, a market, six restaurants, and a garbage disposal section for the daily needs of the residents.Construction is going on for another guest house and a convention centre having a capacity of 2,000. The institute draws its supply of water from wells near the Kosai river(located 112 kilometres away from institute) by harnessing sub-surface water. Three deep wells near the institute supplement the supply from the river. The water is supplied by a 16-inch (410 mm) pipeline to 12 tanks in the campus with a total capacity of 2,800,000 litres (615,000 imperial gallons). However students have recently shown dissatisfaction with the current level of amenities, especially the civic hospital, forcing the director to resign.
IIT Kharagpur is located just outside the town of Kharagpur, in the Hijli village. The civic amenities provided to the campus of IIT Kharagpur make it nearly self-sufficient with regards to the basic needs of the residents. As Kharagpur is a small town, there is limited direct interaction between the campus community and the town. There is also little opportunity for the employment of family members of the faculty. Unlike some other IITs (such as IIT Bombay), IIT Kharagpur does not restrict outsiders' entry into the campus.IIT Kharagpur provides much of its benefits to the local community through the Rural Development Centre (RDC) located in the campus. Established in 1975, the RDC helps the local community by developing customised technologies.The RDC also co-ordinates the National Service Scheme (NSS) programs in IIT Kharagpur, with the members of NSS taking part in weekly community service activities such as sanitation, road construction, teaching and building educational models.
In 2005, IIT Kharagpur started construction of a boundary wall for the security of the campus, which is now complete. Mild restrictions apply to entry of outside vehicles. The boundary wall was opposed by the local community as it would hinder their access to amenities provided by the institute. Campus residents have also been denied direct access to the adjoining Hijli railway station as a result of this wall. The local community also opposes the construction of a flyover from the railway station to the campus, as it would lead to substantial losses of opportunity for the shops along the roads. The construction of the 1052.69 m long flyover has been approved by the Indian Railways and West Bengal state government. It will be formally called Hijli Road overbridge, and will be constructed for estimated cost of Rs. 237 million ($ 5.3 million).

Academics

Admission to most undergraduate and postgraduate courses in IIT Kharagpur is granted through written entrance examinations. Admissions to M.S.(by Research) and Ph.D. programmes are based on written tests followed by personal interviews.

Admission to undergraduate programmes in all IITs was tied to the Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE)  but now it has changedto ISEET from 2013. Candidates who qualify for admission through ISEET can apply for admission in four year B.Tech. (Bachelor of Technology), five year B.Arch. degree, five year Dual Degree (Integrated Bachelor of Technology and Master of Technology) and five year integrated M.Sc. (Master of Sciences) courses at IIT Kharagpur. The admissions to postgraduate programmes (M.Tech.) are made primarily through the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE). Other postgraduate entrance exams include Joint Admission to M.Sc. (JAM) for M.Sc., and Common Admission Test (CAT) conducted by IIMs for management studies.
15% of the seats are reserved for students belonging to Scheduled Castes (SC) and 7.5% for Scheduled Tribes (ST). As of 2008, 27% separate reservation exists for the Other Backward Classes.
IIT Kharagpur is a member of LAOTSE, a network of universities in Europe and Asia exchanging students and senior scholars.

Undergraduate education

IIT Kharagpur offers degrees as part of its undergraduate programmes. They include Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) and the 5 year integrated Master of Science. The B.Tech. degree is the most common undergraduate degree in IIT Kharagpur in terms of student enrolment. It is based on a four-year programme with eight semesters. The first year of the B.Tech. curriculum has common courses from various departments. At the end of the first year, an option to change departments is given to students on the basis of their performance in the first two semesters. Unlike other IITs which evaluate their students on the basis of others' performance which does not foster shared learning and communication,IIT- Kharagpur uses absolute scores.
From the second year onwards, the students take courses offered by their departments that are known as depth courses. In addition to these, the students takef inter-disciplinary courses known as breadth courses. Separate courses from the humanities and social sciences (HSS) department, and management and information technology are also required. At the end of the third year, the B.Tech. and Dual Degree students undertake industrial training for a minimum period of eight working weeks as part of the undergraduate curriculum. In the final year of their studies, most of the students are offered jobs in industries and other organisations through the Training and Placement section of the institute. Some students opt out of this facility in favour of higher studies or by applying to recruiting organisations directly. In addition to the major degree as part of the undergraduate education, students can take courses from other departments, and by demonstrating knowledge of a discipline based on objectives set by the department, earn a minor in that department.

Postgraduate and doctoral education

IIT Kharagpur offers postgraduate programmes including Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Master of Business Administration (MBA), and Master of Sciences (M.Sc.). Some specialised post graduate programmes offered by IIT Kharagpur include Master of Human Resource Management (MHRM), Postgraduate Diploma in Information Technology (PGDIT), Master in Medical Science and Technology (MMST), Master of City Planning (MCP), Postgraduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law (PGDIPL), and Postgraduate Diploma in Maritime Operation znd Management (PGDMOM). The institute offers the Doctor of Philosophy degree (Ph.D) as part of its doctoral education programme. The doctoral scholars are given a topic by the professor, or work on the consultancy projects sponsored by industry. The duration of the programme is usually unspecified and depends on the discipline. Ph.D scholars submit a dissertation as well as conduct an oral defence of their thesis. Teaching assistantships (TA) and research assistantships (RA) are provided based on the scholar's academic profile. IIT Kharagpur offers an M.S. (by research) programme; the M.Tech. and M.S. being similar to the US universities' non-thesis (course-based) and thesis (research-based) master programmes respectively.
IIT Kharagpur (along with other IITs) offers Dual Degree programs that integrate undergraduate and postgraduate studies in selected pairs of branches and specialisations. Most of the Dual Degree programs involve specialisation in the major field of education of the student. For a dual degree involving an MBA from Vinod Gupta School of Management, the selection is made on the basis of an aptitude test of students across all engineering streams. The Dual Degree program spans five years as against six years in conventional B.Tech. (four years) followed by an M.Tech. or MBA (two years).
IIT Kharagpur has a management school (Vinod Gupta School of Management), an entrepreneurship school (Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship) and a law school (Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law) on its premises. The Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law has been opened in collaboration with George Washington University. The School of Medical Science and Technology in IIT kharagpur is the first and also the "only" of its kind in the country where M.B.B.S. graduates are trained in art and science of medical research with aim to provide a platform for interdisciplinary teaching and research in the field of medical science and technology.

Continuing education

The institute offers the Continuing Education Programme (CEP) for qualified engineers and scientists to learn technologies and developments in their academic disciplines. As part of CEP, the institute offers formal degree programmes (M.Tech and Ph.D) and an Early Faculty Induction Programme (EFIP) under the Quality Improvement Programme (QIP), short-term courses supported by the All India Council for Technical Education, self-financed short-term courses supported by course fees, and certificate courses conducted as distance education. In addition to conducting educational courses, the CEP develops model curricula for engineering education. As of 2006, the CEP has facilitated publication of 103 course curriculum books. The CEP administers SIMAP (Small Industries Management Assistant Programme) and STUP (Skill-cum-Technology Upgradation Programme) on behalf of IIT Kharagpur; the institute being a corpus institute of SIDBI (Small Industries Development Bank of India).

Sponsored research

The institute received 171 research revenue worth Rs. 417 million ($ 9.25 million)—and 130 consultancy projects in the 2005–06 session. The institute transferred 15 technologies to industry during the same session. The institute has filed 125 patents and 25 of them have been granted. This does not include patents obtained by individual professors or students. During the same session, the value of the international projects was Rs. 9.9 million ($ 220,000), and the revenue from transferred technologies was about Rs. 2.5 million ($ 55,000). The institute earned Rs. 520 million ($ 11.5 million) from research projects in the 2005–06 session.^[12] Major sponsors for research include the Indian National Science Academy, Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Defence Research and Development Organisation, Microsoft Corporation, Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (India) and Indian Space Research Organisation IIT Kharagpur has had a cell known as the SRIC (Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy) cell since 1982. It handles sponsored research projects and industrial consultancy assignments, and has the infrastructure to simultaneously administer 600 R&D projects.

Institutes and departments

Apart from routine engineering departments the institute also has some important research centers and schools,

• Center for Educational Technology
• Center for Ocean, River, Atmosphere and Land Science (CORALs)
• G S Sanyal School of Telecommunications
• Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship
• Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law
• Ranbir and Chitra Gupta School of Infrastructure Design and Management
• Reliability Engineering Centre
• Rubber Technology Centre
• Rural Development Centre
• School of Medical Science and Technology
• School of Water Resources
• Vinod Gupta School of Management

Placements at IIT Kharagpur

The international placements began in 2006. IIT Kharagpur’s Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSOM) had completed Vantage 2008, its annual recruitment programme, on a high note with a 30% increase in the average salary levels offered to the 121-strong batch, reports Sreeradha D Basu in Kolkata. According to IT magazine Dataquest’s annual survey, IIT Kharagpur is the second best technology college in terms of placement in India.
This huge jump can be attributed to the fact that it is the first time in IIT Kharagpur’s history that students have been allowed to take up foreign placements by companies. “We, in fact, had a documented policy of not allowing foreign placements. This was overturned last year,” GS Sinha, former IIT Kgp’s placement in-charge, said. “Since all the other IITs were already allowing this, we wanted it to happen at IIT-Kharagpur as well,” he added.
“Since we got the permission a bit late last year, the kind of active marketing that was required did not happen. This year, we plan to plug into our alumni network and scale up the process in a much bigger way,” said Prof Sinha.
The top domestic compensation in 2008 came in at Rs 18 lakh per annum. In 2011 batch, Goldman Sachs recruited 10 students on a package of Rs. 26 lakhs per annum.
Barclays Capital recruited 11 students with a package of US $55,000(Rs.22 lacs./annum) in December 2009. The highest salary offered till now is Rs 1.7 crore by social networking site Facebook in an off-shore recruitment (of which Employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) were offered valued at 1 crore). The 2010 batch of B.Tech students saw 94% placements while the remaining preferred IIMs or entrepreneurship.Deutsche Bank recruited 9 students on a package of 0.15 crore (US$27,150) lakhs per annum. For 2012 batch, Facebook has made the highest offer US$150,000 to four students.

Student life and culture

 

IIT Kharagpur provides on-campus residential facilities to its students, research scholars, faculty members and many of its staff. The students live in hostels (referred to as halls) throughout their stay in the IIT. Hostel rooms are wired for internet, for which students pay a compulsory charge. Most of the rooms in the halls of residences are designed to accommodate one student per room. Now (2005–2009), due to scarcity of sufficient student accommodation, two students share a single seater room for the first two years.
Undergraduate students choose between National Cadet Corps (NCC), National Service Scheme (NSS) and National Sports Organisation (NSO) for their first two years of study. IIT Kharagpur has common sports grounds for cricket, football, hockey, volleyball, lawn tennis, badminton, and athletics; and swimming pools for aquatic events. Most of the hostels have their own sports grounds. The institute organises an annual inter-collegiate sports and games meet in October
The students of IIT Kharagpur compete among themselves in various events held under the purview of open-IIT and inter-hall events, and the results of the latter contribute to the points that determine the winner of General Championship. The four categories in which General Championships are decided are Sports, Social and cultural activities, Technology, and Hall affairs. The women's hostel together participate as a single team in all events with the exception of sports, where women's team do not participate at inter-hall level. IIT Kharagpur participates in the Inter-IIT Sports Meet, held annually in one of the IITs by policy of rotation.

The students choose their representatives by elections held under the control of the Technology Students' Gymkhana. The highest-ranking student representative chosen by the elections is the Vice-President of the Gymkhana, and represents the students in the senate. All halls nominate two representatives for the senate. The Gymkhana publishes an annual magazine called Alankar. A fortnightly newsletter called The Scholar's Avenue, named after the avenue common to the student halls, is also published by an independent student body. A Hindi monthly newsletter Awaaz is also published by another independent student body. Individual halls organise "Hall day" — an annual event that involves lighting and decoration of the organising hall, with a social gathering of students from all halls—during March. The event is also used by the halls to popularise their candidates for student body elections.
Students who violate the code of conduct of the institute have to defend themselves in front of the Hall Disciplinary Committee (HDC), which investigates the case and prescribes punishment if necessary. Students may appeal against the punishment to the Appellate-cum-Liaison Committee known as Inter Hall Disciplinary Committee (IHDC). The IHDC submits its recommendations to the Senate, which finalises the punishment. Extreme cases of indiscipline are referred directly to the IHDC. The IHDC is empowered to give punishments to students for acts of indiscretion committed anywhere in India. IIT Kharagpur has strict provisions dealing with physical and mental harassment of junior students (ragging). Students found harassing their juniors are suspended from the institute, without going through the Disciplinary Committee.

Entrepreneurship Cell

Entrepreneurship Cell (E-Cell) is a student's organisation, functioning under STEP (Science and Technology Entrepreneurs' Park), from within the Institute, with the aim of promoting entrepreneurship among students throughout India.It provides mentorship and support to startup companies and helps them with financing, through Venture Capitalists and incubation, through STEP and SRIC, IIT Kharagpur.
It conducts two major events, the Global Entrepreneurship Summit(GES), which is a three-day event, held in January at the institute, and the Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive (EAD), a 20-day event, consisting of guest lectures in 20 cities across India. Knowledge Camp is conducted annually for the benefit of students within IIT-Kgp, while the Innovation Platform and Fund-aKGPian programs continue throughout the year, to recognise and support innovative ideas among students of IIT-Kgp, besides workshops and guest lectures throughout the year.
Prof. Sunil Handa, Padma Shri Prof. Anil K. Gupta, Sanjeev Bhikchandani, Vinod Dham, Arjun Malhotra, and Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw are some of the speakers who have delivered lectures within and outside IIT -Kgp.
E-Cell has been instrumental in the establishment of School of Engineering Entrepreneurship (SoEE). The E-Cell has played a key role in the Deferred Placement Programme (DPP), whereby, a student can opt for placement a year after the completion of his/her course, in case they are involved in a startup company. This is the first time such a programme is being offered at the undergraduate level in India.

Spectra

"Spectra" is a student initiative that promotes fine arts among the students of IIT Kharagpur. Spectra has organized workshops on Photoshop, Photography, Film Making, and Animation since its foundation in 2007. It has also organized all the fine arts events in Spring Fest since 2009 under the banner of "Destination Artland". The details of its events can be found at website.

Space Technology Student Society

Space Technology Student Society(spAts) is a student initiative that functions as the student body of Kalpana Chawla Space Technology Cell(KCSTC),the contact point of Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) at IIT Kharagpur.It conducts an annual Space-festival "National Students' Space Challenge".


FEES STRUCTURE

            IIT KANPUR

HISTORY

IIT Kanpur was established by an Act of PARLIAMENT in 1959. The institute was started in December 1959 in a room in the canteen building of the  HARCOURT BUTLER INSTITUTE at Agricultural Gardens in Kanpur. In 1963, the institute moved to its present location, on the GRAND TRUNK ROAD near the village of Kalyanpur in Kanpur district.

During the first ten years of its existence, IIT Kanpur benefited from the Kanpur Indo-American Programme (KIAP), where a consortium of nine US universities (namely M.I.T. UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA INSITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY,  University of MICHIGAN, Ohio State University, Case Institute of Technologyand, Purdue University) helped set up the research laboratories and academic programmes.The first Director of the Institute was P. K. Kelkar (after whom the Central Library was renamed in 2002).

Under the guidance of economist John Kenneth Galbraith, IIT Kanpur was the first institute in India to offer Computer Science education.^[3] The earliest computer courses were started at IIT Kanpur in August 1963 on an IBM 1620 system. The initiative for computer education came from the Electrical Engineering department, then under the chairmanship of Prof. H.K. Kesavan, who was concurrently the chairman of Electrical Engineering and head of the Computer Centre. Prof. Harry Huskey of the University of California, Berkeley, who preceded Kesavan, was instrumental in providing the impetus for the computer activity at IIT-Kanpur. In 1971, the institute initiated an independent academic program in Computer Science and Engineering, leading to M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees.

In 1972 the KIAP program ended, in part because of tensions due to the U.S. support of Pakistan. Government funding was also reduced as a reaction to the sentiment that the IIT's were contributing to the brain drain. Since then IIT Kanpur has increased collaboration with industry and has achieved a reasonable level of stability.

CAMPUS

IIT Kanpur is located on the Grand Trunk Road, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) west of Kanpur City and measures close to 420 hectares (1,000 acres). The campus can be reached from Lucknow airport in two hours. IIT Kanpur is about 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) from the Kanpur Central Railway Station. This land was gifted by the Government of Uttar Pradesh in 1960 and by March 1963 the Institute had moved to its current location.

The institute has around 5,400 students with 3,400 undergraduate students and 2000 postgraduate students.

Academic Area

Institute's Academic Area comprises academic buildings, various departments, facilities like PK Kelkar Library, Computer Centre and Incubation Centre. It also houses faculty offices, laboratories and administrative buildings. The academic area is well connected by a long corridor which links all the major buildings. The academic area is set up in vicinity of Hostels to provide quick accessibility to students.

Halls of Residence

IIT Kanpur has well built modern infrastructure for promoting student's personal growth. The institute has 10 boys' hostels and 2 girls' hostels fondly called as 'Halls of Residence'. Each hall is equipped with excellent sports and computing facilities besides institute's common facilities. Every Hall has its own Mess, Canteen, Basketball Court, Badminton Court, TT table, Reading room (for newspapers, magazines etc.), shops for purchasing common daily items. Hostels are spacious and have lots of open spaces and gardens. Also, each hall has a Hall Executive Committee (HEC), a student body that takes care of various administrative affairs of the hall. IIT Kanpur enjoys vibrant student culture where students from different backgrounds bring different tastes of life with them.

Students' Activity Centre (SAC)

SAC is place for most of the students activities. There are two buildings for SAC, one is older one and the other (New-SAC) is recently built. New-SAC also has an open air theatre (OAT) with capacity of over 1400 persons. The SAC is maintained and managed by the Students' Gymkhana at IIT Kanpur with the President, Students' Gymkhana being the warden of the SAC.

Sports Facilities

The Institute provides excellent facilities and infrastructure for promoting sports activities on the campus. The facilities include -

§                    Main Stadium

§                    Cricket Field

§                    Football Field

§                    Hockey Field

§                    Olympic size Swimming Pool

§                    Synthetic Tennis courts

§                    Badminton Courts

§                    Basketball Courts

§                    Volleyball Courts

§                    Skating rink

§                    Squash courts

§                    Gymnasium

§                    Yoga hall

§                    Artificial rock climbing

DEPARTMENTS

                 The academic departments at IIT Kanpur are

      Engineering

§         Aerospace Engineering

§         Biological Sciences and Bioengineering

§         Chemical Engineering

§         Civil Engineering

§         Computer Science and Engineering

§         Electrical Engineering

§         Materials Science and Engineering

§         Mechanical Engineering

Humanities and social sciences.

§         Economics

§         English

§         Fine Arts

§         Philosophy

§         Psychology

§         Sociology

§         Management

§         Industrial and Management Engineering

     Sciences

§         Chemistry

§         Mathematics and Statistics

§         Physics

    Inter Disciplinary

§         Environmental Engineering and Management

§         Laser Technology

§         Master of Design

§         Materials Science Program

§         Nuclear Engineering and Technology

Laboratories and other facilities

The campus is spread over an area of 4.3 square kilometres (1,100 acres). Institute facilities include the National Wind Tunnel Facility. Other large research centres include the Advanced Centre for Material Science, a Bio-technology centre, the Advanced Centre for Electronic Systems, and the Samtel Centre for Display Technology, Centre for Mechatronics, Centre for Laser Technology, Prabhu Goel Research Centre for Computer and Internet Security, Facility for Ecological and Analytical Testing. The departments have their own libraries.

The institute has its own AIRFIELD, for flight testing and gliding.

PK Kelkar Library (formerly Central Library) is an academic library of the institute with a collection of more than 300,000 volumes, and subscriptions to more than 1000 periodicals. The library was renamed to its present name in 2003 after Dr. PK KELKAR, the first director of the institute. It is housed in a three-story building, with a total floor area of 6973 square metres floor area. The Abstracting and Indexing periodicals, Microform and CD-ROM databases. technical reports, Standards and thesis are part of the collection. Each year, about 4500 books and journal volumes are added to the collection.

 The Computer Centre has about 200-300 Linux terminals and more than 100 Windows-NT terminals supported by the PARAM 10000 supercomputer, and is continuously available to the students for academic work and recreation. It hosts about 50 SUN workstations. The IITs (and especially IIT Kanpur) and BITS Pilani are among the first large academic institutions in India to be networked, with an institute-wide LAN and Ethernet access to every student room in the residence halls.

A team of students, working under the guidance of faculty members of the institute and scientists of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have designed and built India's first nano satellite JUGNU, which was successfully launched in orbit on 12 Oct 2011 by ISRO's PSLV-C18.

Students' research related activity

Research is controlled by the Office of the Dean of Research and Development. Under the aegis of the Office the students publish the quarterly NERD Magazine (Notes on Engineering Research and Development) which publishes scientific and technical content created by students. Articles may be original work done by students in the form of hobby projects, term projects, internships, or theses. Articles of general interest which are informative but do not reflect original work are also accepted.

Along with the magazine a student research platform PoWER (Promotion of Work Experience and Research) has been started. Under it several independent student groups are working on projects like the Lunar Rover for ISRO, alternate energy solutions under the Group for Environment and Energy Engineering, ICT solutions through a group Young Engineers, solution for diabetes, green community solutions through ideas like zero water and zero waste quality air approach. A budget of Rs 1.5 to 2 crore has been envisaged to support student projects that demonstrate technology.

Jugnu (satellite)

The students of IIT Kanpur made a nano satellite called Jugnu, This small satellite was given by president PRATIBHAA PATIL to ISRO for launch. . Jugnu is an Indian technology demonstration and remote sensing satellite which will be operated by the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. It is a nanosatellite which will be used to provide data for agriculture and disaster monitoring. It is a 3-kilogram (6.6 lb) spacecraft, which measures 34 centimetres (13 in) in length by 10 centimetres (3.9 in) in height and width. Its development programme cost around 25 million rupee. It has a design life of one year. Jugnu's primary instrument is the Micro Imaging System, a near infrared camera which will be used to observe vegetation. It also carries a GPS receiver to aid tracking, and is intended to demonstrate a microelectromechanical inertial measurement unit. Jugnu will be launched into low Earth orbit by a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle flying from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre. The launch is currently scheduled to occur during 2011

The institute is part of the European Research and Education Collaboration with Asia (EURECA) programme since 2008.

SIDBI Innovation and Incubation Centre

IIT Kanpur has set up the SIDBI Innovation and Incubation Centre in collaboration with the Small Industries development Bank of India (SIDBI) to foster innovation, research, and entrepreneurial activities in technology-based areas. SIIC provides a platform to business Start-ups to develop their ideas into commercially viable products.

SIDBI Innovation and Incubation Centre (SIIC) conducted the NEETECH Summer Program 2007 for engineering students from all over India at IIT Kanpur Campus.

Admission

Undergraduate admissions FROM  2013 are being done through the national-level EXAM UNDER THE NAME ISEET. Following the Ministry of Human Resource Development's decision

Postgraduate admissions are made through the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering {GATE}

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TOP 100 ENGINEERING COLLEGES (WORLD),USA,UK,CHINA,RANKINGS

Top 100 Engineering Universities in the World:-

1. California Institute of Technology, United States    
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States    
3. Princeton University, United States    
4. University of California, Berkeley, United States    
5. Stanford University, United States    
6. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom    
7. University of Oxford, United Kingdom    
8. University of California, Los Angeles, United States    
9. ETH Zürich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, Switzerland    
10. Imperial College London, United Kingdom    
11. Georgia Institute of Technology, United States    
12. Carnegie Mellon University, United States    
13. University of Texas at Austin, United States    
14. University of Michigan, United States    
15. Cornell University, United States    
16. University of California, Santa Barbara, United States    
17. University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, United States    
18. University of Toronto, Canada    
19. National University of Singapore, Singapore    
20. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland    
21. University of Tokyo, Japan    
22. Delft University of Technology, Netherlands    
23. University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States    
24. University of California, San Diego, United States    
25. University of Melbourne, Australia    
26. University of Manchester, United Kingdom    
27. University College London, United Kingdom    
28. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong    
29. École Polytechnique, France    
30. University of Minnesota, United States    
31. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
32. Tsinghua University, China    
33. University of California, Davis, United States    
34. University of British Columbia, Canada    
35. Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea, Republic Of    
36. The University of Sydney, Australia    
37. Pennsylvania State University, United States    
38. The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong    
39. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium    
40. Purdue University, United States    
41. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
42. Rice University, United States    
43. The Ohio State University, United States    
44. Technische Universität München, Germany    
45. Peking University, China    
46. Brown University, United States    
47. The University of Queensland Australia, Australia    
48. McGill University, Canada    
49. Kyoto University, Japan    
50. University of Waterloo, Canada    
51. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
52. University of EDINBURGH    United Kingdom   
53. Kth, ROYAL INSTITUTE of Technology    Sweden   
54. SHANGHAI JIAO TONG University    China   
55. The University of AUCKLAND    New Zealand   
56. CHALMERS University of Technology    Sweden   
57. RWTH AACHEN University    Germany   
58. Polytechnic University of Milan    Italy   
59. Indian Institute of Technology KANPUR, India
60. University of QUEENSLAND, Australia   
61. Technical University of BERLIN, Germany   
62. Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India   
63. VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC Institute, United States   
64. COLUMBIA University, United States   
65. University of SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom   
66. University of CALIFORNIA, Santa Barbara    United States   
67. YALE University, United States   
68. JOHNS HOPKINS University, United States   
69. University of KARLSRUHE    Germany   
70. VIENNA University of Technology, Austria   
71. TEXAS A&m University, United States   
72. Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India   
73. TOHOKU University, Japan   
74. RENSSELAER Polytechnic Institute, United States   
75. The Chinese University of HONG KONG, Hong Kong   
76. CHULALONGKORN University, Thailand   
77. BANDUNG Institute of Technology (ITB), Indonesia   
78. POHANG University of Science And Technololgy, South Korea
79. Technical University of DENMARK, Denmark
80. University of Wisconsin-madison, United States   
81. Ecole Normale Superieure, France   
82. National TSING HUA University, Taiwan   
83. FUDAN University, China
84. University of CALGARY, Canada   
85. University of PENNSYLVANIA, United States   
86. University of STUTTGART, Germany   
87. Mcmaster University, Canada   
88. The HONG KONG Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
89. City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong   
90. University of BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom   
91. HELSINKI University of Technology (TKK)    Finland   
92. PENNSYLVANIA STATE University, United States   
93. University of WASHINGTON, United States   
94. Rmit University    Australia   
95. University of BRISTOL, United Kingdom
96. BROWN University, United States   
97. NAGOYA University, Japan   
98. University of MARYLAND, College Park, United States