IIT KHARAGPUR, KGP

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IIT KHARAGPUR Details

IIT Kharagpur is the first Indian Institute of Technology established in India. Formally inaugurated on 18th August 1951, IIT Kharagpur was, in its infancy, housed in the historic Hijli Detention Camp, Kharagpur. Spread over a huge area of 2100 acres and is the biggest among all the IITs. IIT Kharagpur offers 119+ undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral, research and dual degree programmes through its 19 departments, 9 Centres of Excellence, 13 schools and 25 Research and Development Units. The courses are offered in the Engineering, Management, Physical Sciences and Law domain. Students can also pursue inter-institutional programmes at IIT Kharagpur in collaboration with other National and international universities and colleges. The list of collaborative institutes of IIT Kharagpur includes IIM Calcutta, University of Melbourne and Curtin University of Technology amongst others. As per NIRF rankings 2021, the institute has been ranked 3rd in architecture category, 9th in management category, 5th in law and engineering categories, 5th in the research category and 6th in the overall category. The NIRF Ranking 2020 of IIT Kharagpur for the architecture category was 1st, 5th for management and engineering category, 4th in law and 5th in overall category. IIT Kharagpur has a total of 650 full time faculty members and more than 11,000 students are currently pursuing their degrees at IIT Kharagpur. Research and academics are driven through thei 9 centres of excellence some of which are Artificial Intelligence, Safety Engineering and Analytics, etc.