Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati (IIIT G) is one of the

Indian Institutes of Information Technology Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) are a group of 26 interdisciplinary technology-based- engineering research institutions in India which are focused on information technology. Five of them are established, funded and managed ...

(IIIT) located in

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in the state of

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. It was set up by the

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in public-private partnership (PPP) mode. It was declared as an

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under the Indian Institutes of Information Technology (Public-Private Partnership) Act, 2017.

History

On 18 March 2013, the Ministry of Human Resource Development, the Government of India introduced a bill in the Parliament to establish 20 new Indian Institute of Information Technology's in different parts of the Country. As per the bill, MHRD will establish the 20 new IIITs under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mode partnering with respective state governments and industry partners. The industry partners are

Tata Consultancy Services Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an Indian multinational information technology (IT) services and consulting company with its headquarters in Mumbai. It is a part of the Tata Group and operates in 150 locations across 46 countries. In July ...

Oil India Oil India Limited (OIL) is a central public sector undertaking under the ownership of Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India. The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas oversees its operations, with its headquarters in ...

, Srei Infrastructure Finance, Assam Electronics Development Corp (Amtron), Novatium and Medhassu eSolutions.

Foundation

IIIT Guwahati was set up in 2013. The foundation stone for the present campus of IIIT Guwahati at Santola village of Bongora was unveiled in the presence of Hon'ble Prime Minister, Shri

Narendra Modi Narendra Damodardas Modi (; born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament fro ...

. IIITG started operations in August 2013 in temporary premises within the Assam Textile Institute campus at Ambari,

Academics

IIITG offers

B.Tech A Bachelor of Technology (Latin ''Baccalaureus Technologiae'', commonly abbreviated as B.Tech. or BTech; with honours as B.Tech. (Hons.)) is an undergraduate academic degree conferred after the completion of a three to five-year program of stud ...

degree in Computer Science and Engineering and Electronics and Communication Engineering. Admission to all undergraduate programmes are on the basis of the All India Rank (AIR) in the

Joint Entrance Examination (Main) The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) is an engineering entrance assessment conducted for admission to various engineering colleges in India. It is constituted by two different examinations: the JEE-Main and the JEE-Advanced. The Joint Seat ...

(JEE- Main). From 2015 onwards students enrolled in the research Doctoral Programme (awarding a

Ph.D A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is ...

) after either completing a B.Tech degree or an M.Tech one. IIIT Guwahati has also started an MTech Programme for CSE and ECE graduates from 2018. IIIT Guwahati houses the following departments: * Department of Computer Science and Engineering * Department of

Electronics & Communication Engineering Electronics engineering is a sub-discipline of electrical engineering which emerged in the early 20th century and is distinguished by the additional use of active components such as semiconductor devices to amplify and control electric current fl ...

* Department of Mathematics * Department of

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and

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(English, Linguistics, Economics and Political Science)

Rankings

IIIT, Guwahati was ranked 73rd among all engineering colleges in India by the

National Institutional Ranking Framework The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) is a methodology adopted by the Ministry of Education, Government of India, to rank institutions of higher education in India. The Framework was approved by the MHRD and launched by Minister ...

(NIRF) in 2021.

Campus

The Institute shifted to its permanent campus on July 2, 2018. The campus is located on a 67-acre plot, 4 km from

Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport , also known as Guwahati International Airport and formerly as 'Borjhar Airport', is an international airport serving Guwahati, the largest city of North-East India in Assam, India, and is als ...

, on the National Highway. A 9200 sqm Academic-cum-Administration building houses all the Institute’s activities.

Annual festivals

Yuvaan is the annual technical, sports cum cultural extravaganza of IIITG.http://www.iiitg.ac.in/yuvaan2k18/index.php#about

References

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Universities and colleges in Guwahati Educational institutions established in 2013 2013 establishments in Assam Engineering colleges in Assam