IIT (Indian Institute of Technology)

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are a group of autonomous public engineering and management institutes of India. The IITs are governed by the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 which has declared them as "institutions of national importance", and lays down their powers, duties, framework for governance etc..The Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 lists sixteen institutes located at Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Delhi, Gandhinagar, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jodhpur, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Mandi, Mumbai, Patna, Ropar, Roorkee and Varanasi. Each IIT is an autonomous institution, linked to the others through a common IIT Council, which oversees their administration. The IITs award degrees starting from B.Tech to Ph.D.
The IITs have a common admission process for undergraduate admissions. It was based on IIT-JEE, replaced by Joint Entrance Examination in 2013. The graduate level program that awards M. Tech. degree in engineering is administered by the older IITs (Kharagpur, Bombay, Madras, Kanpur, Delhi, Roorkee, Varanasi, Guwahati). M.Tech. admission decisions are made on the basis of Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE). In addition to B. Tech and M. Tech programs IITs also award other graduate degrees such as M.Sc. in Engineering, Maths, Physics and Chemistry, MBA, PhD and more. Admission to these programs are through Common Admission Test (CAT), Joint Admission Test to M.Sc. (JAM) and Common Entrance Examination for Design (CEED).
IIT alumni have achieved success in a variety of professions. IITs are Institutes of National Importance established through special acts of Indian Parliament.

Institutes

The IITs are located in:

IITs and locations, sorted alphabetically

Name		Short Name	Established	City/Town	State/UT	Website
IIT Bhubaneswar		IITBBS	2008	Bhubaneswar	Odisha	www.iitbbs.ac.in
IIT Bombay		IITB	1958	Mumbai	Maharashtra	www.iitb.ac.in
IIT Delhi		IITD	1963‡(founded in 1961)	New Delhi	Delhi	www.iitd.ac.in
IIT Gandhinagar		IITGN	2008	Gandhinagar	Gujarat	www.iitgn.ac.in
IIT Guwahati		IITG	1994	Guwahati	Assam	www.iitg.ac.in
IIT Hyderabad		IITH	2008	Hyderabad	Andhra Pradesh	www.iith.ac.in
IIT Indore		IITI	2009	Indore	Madhya Pradesh	www.iiti.ac.in
IIT Jodhpur		IITJ	2008	Jodhpur	Rajasthan	www.iitj.ac.in
IIT Kanpur		IITK	1949	Kanpur	Uttar Pradesh	www.iitk.ac.in
IIT Kharagpur		IITKGP	1951	Kharagpur	West Bengal	www.iitkgp.ac.in
IIT Madras		IITM	1959	Chennai	Tamil Nadu	www.iitm.ac.in
IIT Mandi		IIT Mandi	2009	Mandi	Himachal Pradesh	www.iitmandi.ac.in
IIT Patna		IITP	2008	Patna	Bihar	www.iitp.ac.in
IIT Roorkee		IITR	2001‡(founded in 1847)	Roorkee	Uttarakhand	www.iitr.ac.in
IIT Ropar		IITRPR	2008	Rupnagar	Punjab	www.iitrpr.ac.in
IIT (BHU) Varanasi		IIT(BHU)	2012‡(founded in 1919)	Varanasi	Uttar Pradesh	www.iitbhu.ac.in

‡ – year converted to IIT

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