IIT MADRAS, Chennai

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IIT MADRAS Details

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras was established as a result of the Indo-German agreement in Bonn, in 1959. IIT Madras is known for its excellence in technical education, innovation, basic and applied research entrepreneurship and industrial consultancy. According to NIRF Ranking 2021, the institute has been ranked 13th in the management category. IIT Madras has secured 1st rank in the engineering and overall category in NIRF 2021 Ranking. The institute has secured 2nd in the research category in NIRF 2021. It was also ranked first in engineering and overall category in NIRF 2020 Ranking.  IIT Madras was ranked at 14th position in the management category in NIRF Ranking 2020.

IIT Madras is an autonomous statutory institute administered by the IIT Council. The Minister of Human Resource & Development has been made the Chairman of this Council. IIT Madras is a residential institute with a self-contained campus spread over 250 hectares of beautiful wooded land. It consists of nearly 550 faculty, 1250 administrative and supporting staff, sixteen academic departments, various advanced research centres for various disciplines of science, technology and engineering and nearly 100 laboratories classified in a unique pattern. IIT Madras provides an array of courses at various levels. It provides undergraduate, postgraduate, research, joint degree and online programmes. It also offers an exchange programme for more collaborative learning. IIT Madras is a part of the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL),a project by the MHRD which offers online certificate courses in five core disciplines of engineering. It also has a Centre for Continuing Education in place offering programmes for the industry, short-term courses for the engineering faculty and courses under the Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN).