Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati, IITG)

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati, IITG) is an autonomous engineering and technology-oriented institute of higher education established by the Government of India, located in Guwahati, in the state of Assam in India. It is the sixth Indian Institute of Technology established in India.

IITG is officially recognised as an Institute of National Importance by the government of India.

Campus and geography

The campus of IITG is on the northern banks of Brahmaputra and abuts the North Guwahati town of Amingaon, pincode-781039.

The campus is on a 700 acres (2.8 km²) plot of land around 20 km from the heart of the city. It has the majestic Brahmaputra on one side and hills and vast open spaces on others.

Academics

IIT Guwahati houses the following departments:

• Department of Biotechnology
• Department of Chemical Engineering
• Department of Chemistry
• Department of Civil Engineering(CE)
• Department of Computer Science and Engineering
• Department of Design
• Department of Electronics & Electrical Engineering (previously known as Department of Electronics and Communication)
• Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Department of Physics
• Department of Mathematics
• Department of Mechanical Engineering

The aforementioned departments of the Institute offer B. Tech., B. Des., M. Des., M. Tech.,M.A (Development Studies), M.Sc. and Ph.D. programmes.

Presently there are about 3948 students (2058 undergraduate and 1890 postgraduate) on rolls, 215 faculty members and 300 support staff.

Rankings

Internationally, IIT Guwahati was ranked 551–600 in the QS World University Rankings of 2011 and 89 in the QS Asian University Rankings of 2012. In India, among engineering colleges, it ranked 10 by India Today in 2012, 8 by Outlook India in 2012 and 7 by Dataquest in 2011. In the Mint Government Colleges survey of 2009 it ranked 6

Student life and hostels

IIT Guwahati is a fully residential campus. The Gymhkana Club promotes the objectives of fostering extracurricular and co-curricular activities, welfare of students and their stay on the campus.

All the students live in hostels on the campus. The hostels are named after rivers and tributaries of North-East India: Manas, Dihing, Kapili, Siang, Kameng, Barak, Subansiri (girl's hostel), Umiam, Dibang and Brahmaputra. Apart from these, there is a married scholars hostel for married postgraduates. Among these hostels Manas, Dihing, Kapili and Siang are the old hostels and are of unique infrastructure compared to fairly new ones Kameng, Barak, Umiam and Dibang which can accommodate more people compared to the old ones. Every hostel has its own mess and canteen(s).

IIT Guwahati has numerous sports facilities thanks to Student Activity Center(SAC) maintained by students Gymkhana. That include athletic ground, football ground, hockey ground, cricket ground, lawn tennis courts, badminton courts etc.. and a gym. Every year a set of students are selected from each sports category for 'Inter IIT Sports Meet', a set of sporting events occur in the winter at any one of the IIT's.

Contact:

EPABX : +91 - 361 - 2583000
Fax : +91 - 361 - 2690762
e-mail: pro [AT] iitg.ernet.in
Web : http://www.iitg.ernet.in , http://www.iitg.ac.in