The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (abbreviated IITB or IIT Bombay) is a public engineering institution located in Powai, Mumbai, India. It has been ranked among the top engineering colleges in India. It is the second-oldest institute of the Indian Institutes of Technology system.
IIT Bombay was founded in 1958. It was the first IIT to be set up with foreign assistance. The funds came from UNESCO in roubles from the Soviet Union. In 1961, the Parliament decreed IITs as Institutes of National Importance. A high-power committee of Government of India recommended in 1946 establishment of four higher institutes of technology to set the direction for the development of technical education in the country. Planning for the Institute at Bombay began in 1957 and the first batch of 100 students was admitted in 1958.Since its establishment in Powai, the institute has physically expanded to include more than 584 major buildings with a combined area of more than 2.396 gross square feet (550 acres or 2.22 km²).
IIT Bombay has a comprehensive graduate program offering doctoral degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.Currently IIT Bombay has a total of 14 academic departments, six centers, one school, and three interdisciplinary programmes. Over the last 53 years, around 39,000 engineers and scientists have graduated from the institute. Educational programmes here extend beyond the physical sciences and engineering into humanities and social sciences such as Economics, English, Philosophy,Psychology and Sociology and into management studies. Over the years, the institute has also created a niche for its innovative short-term courses through continuing education and distance education programmes.
Campus
The IIT Bombay campus is located at Powai, a suburb in north eastern Mumbai, between the Vihar and Powai lakes. The campus is divided into clusters of buildings. The academic area chiefly comprises the main building, various departmental annexes and auditoria. All department annexes are connected by a corridor named Infinite Corridor. Beyond the Convocation Hall lie most of the hostels. There are a total of 14 hostels, of which two hostels (Hostels 10 and 11) are for female students.
Due to its proximity to the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, the campus is yellow and mostly untouched by the pollution of the rest of the city. The proximity of the campus to the national park has also led to occasional sightings of panthers and Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) crocodilians along the banks of Lake Powai. A popular weekly newspaper Planet Powai reports events and happenings of this campus regularly.
The institute has two swimming pools; football, hockey and cricket grounds; and tennis,basketball, squash and volleyball courts. It also has a Students' Activity Center (SAC) for various cultural and other extracurricular activities. In addition to these facilities, the campus also houses two high schools, one of which is a Kendriya Vidyalaya and the other is called IIT Campus School.
Cultural and non-academic activities
Cultural activities like dramatics, Speaking, Literary Arts, Music and Fine Arts also mark an important feature in the life of a student of IIT Bombay. Speaking and Literary Arts have always been very popular in the student community with students actively participating in quizzing, writing and debating activities. IIT Bombay has won the prestigious National Law School Parliamentary Debating Tournament.
The annual cultural festival Mood Indigo is held in the month of December and is supposedly the largest of its kind in Asia. The most attractive feature of this 4-day event are the competitions, exhibitions, games and musical concerts.
The annual Science & Technology festival of IIT Bombay, Techfest is held in the month of January every year and is the largest of its kind in Asia. It comprises various events like competitions, exhibits and talks from guest speakers from around the world. Techfest 2009 was also the first event of its kind in India to conduct its events in other countries.
Apart from cultural and technological activities, the campus is also involved in business activities with bodies like The Entrepreneurship Cell, which support the growth of startups across the globe.
These college festivals are organised, financially managed and conducted entirely by the students of this institute. All these festivals and organisations are sponsored by private enterprise
Apart from these festivals, various other engineering streams based festivals are also being organised to motivate students towards Science and Technology. These include Radiance (Mechanical Engineering), Zephyr (Aerospace Engineering), Azeotropy (Chemical Engineering), Padarth(Metallurgy and Material Science Engineering), Aagomani (Electrical Engineering) and recently, Aakaar (Civil Engineering).
The institute also has an LGBT alliance club called "Saathi"
Academics
Programmes
IIT Bombay offers a wide variety of courses of study in engineering, pure sciences, design, management and humanities with a primary focus on engineering. The university is a member of "Links to Asia by Organizing Traineeship and Student Exchange" (LAOTSE), an international network of leading universities in Europe and Asia exchanging students and senior scholars.
The Institute conducts educational programmes leading to the degree of Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech.), Dual Degree (B.tech. and M.Tech. in 5 years), Master of Science (MSc.), Master of Technology (MTech.), Master of Design (MDes.), Master of Management (MMgmt.), Master of Philosophy (MPhil.) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.) in the following areas:
| Degree | Specialization |
| Bachelor of Technology (BTech) | Aerospace Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Engineering Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science. |
| Dual Degree (BTech, MTech) | Aerospace Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering,Energy Engineering, Engineering Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science. |
| Master of Technology (MTech) | Aerospace Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Geo-Exploration, Petroleum Geoscience, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science. Biomedical Engineering, Corrosion Science and Engineering, Energy Systems Engineering, Environmental Science and Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR), Reliability Engineering, Systems and Control Engineering, Nanoscience. |
| Master of Science (MSc) | Applied Geology, Applied Geophysics, Applied Statistics and Informatics (ASI), Biotechnology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics. |
| Master of Design (M Des) | Industrial Design, Visual Communication, Interaction Design, Animation |
| Master of Philosophy (MPhil) | Planning and Development |
| Master of Management (M Mgmt.) | General Management |
| PhD | All engineering disciplines, interdisciplinary areas, science disciplines and the humanities and social sciences. |
Every year, IIT Bombay awards degrees, BTech, MTech, Dual Degree (BTech and MTech), M.Mgmt, MSc and PhD to more than 1,000 students. The undergraduate students at IIT Bombay are selected through the Joint Entrance Examination of the IITs. At a given time, the campus is home to more than 6,000 people: students, professors, and non academic staff.
Rankings
Internationally, IIT Bombay was ranked by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2011–12, at 301–350. It was ranked overall #227 and No. 49 among Engineering and Technology institutes in the QS World University Rankings for 2012. In India, among engineering colleges, it ranked No. 3 by Outlook India in 2012, and No. 1 by Dataquest in 2011. Amongst government engineering colleges, it was ranked No. 1 by Mint in 2009. The international surveys conducted by Professor Jude Sommerfeld of Georgia Tech, USA since 1964 for every five-year period as well as every year and also during the 5-year period during 2004–2009 which included all IITs and IISc. IIT Bombay is always ranked among the topmost in this survey.
| University and college rankings | |
|---|---|
| General – International | |
| QS (World) | 227 |
| Times | 301–350 |
| Engineering – India | |
| India Today | — |
| Outlook India | 3 |
| Dataquest | 1 |
| Government colleges: | |
| Mint | 1 |
| SCHOOL | LOCATION | PUBS. 2010 | TOTALS 06-10 | RANK 06-10 | PUBS 2011 | TOTALS 07-11 | RANK 07-11 | WORLD RANKING |
| ICT, Mumbai (UDCT) | Mumbai | 185 | 960 | 1 | 198 | 1025 | 1 | 4 |
| IIT Bombay | Mumbai | 72 | 368 | 2 | 75 | 393 | 2 | NA |
| IIT Kanpur | Kanpur | 72 | 356 | 3 | 80 | 378 | 3 | NA |
| IIT Kharagpur | Kharagpur | 68 | 301 | 4 | 59 | 305 | 4 | NA |
| IIT Madras | Chennai | 60 | 263 | 5 | 55 | 281 | 5 | NA |
| Anna University | Chennai | 39 | 257 | 6 | 56 | 261 | 6 | NA |
Contact:
Adi Shankaracharya Marg, Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400076
022 2572 2545
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