Indian Institute of Technology Indore

The Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IIT Indore or IITI), located in Madhya Pradesh, is one of the eight Institutes of Technology (IITs) founded by India’s government in 2009.

The institute’s offers various academic programs through three schools viz. engineering; sciences and humanities and social sciences.  IITI offers four-year Bachelor of Technology programmes in eight engineering fields. The school also places a heavy emphasis on research in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, purposefully involving undergraduate students in the forefront of research projects.

Postgraduate and graduate programmes include PhD, MTech, and MS(Research) programmes in engineering, and PhD and MSc programmes in basic sciences and humanities. The institute has introduced a curriculum where students get experiential learning through various laboratory courses and also requires undergraduate students to spend six to nine months of their final year working on projects and internships with academic or industrial exposure.

As an Indian Institute of Technology, IITI is administered centrally by the IITs’ Council, a body specially established by the Government of India. It has numerous sponsored research programmes and several new research facilities that supports thriving research culture.

IIT Indore is extending its influence in the social sphere through its outreach programme led entirely by a students – a group named AVANA that offers education and social welfare free of cost to local schools and villages.