Indian Institute of Information Technology, Sri City is an educational institute of national importance located in Sri City,

Tirupati district Tirupati district () is one of the twenty-six districts in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and one of the eight districts in the Rayalaseema region of the Andhra Pradesh state. The district headquarters is located at Tirupati city. Tirupati ...

, Andhra Pradesh, India set up by the

Ministry of Human Resource Development The Ministry of Education ( MoE; formerly the Ministry of Human Resource Development from 1985 to 2020) is a Union Government ministries of India, ministry of the Government of India, responsible for the implementation of the National Policy on ...

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, under the partnership with Andhra Pradesh Government and Sri City consortium. The IIIT campus at Sri City is spread over . The institute is run by the Board of Governors of the IIIT Society. The Board of Governors include representatives of MHRD, GoAP, and Industry Partners as well as eminent people from academia, industry, and civil society. It was heavily criticised for the quality of education that it provides

History

The

Indian Institute of Information Technology Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) are a group of 26 List of engineering branches, interdisciplinary technology-based-Technical University, engineering research institutions in India which are focused on Information Engineerin ...

Sricity Sri City or Satyavedu Reserve Infracity Pvt. Ltd. is an integrated business city (township) and special economic zone located in Tirupati district in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. It was founded in 2008 and has now become one of the coveted ...

started its first batch in 2013 with

IIIT Hyderabad IIIT is an initialism that may refer to: * Indian Institutes of Information Technology, a group of institutes of higher education in India * Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, an autonomous university in Delhi, India * Inter ...

as the mentor institute.

Location

Indian Institute of Information Technology – Sri City,

Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...

is situated in Sri City which is a planned integrated business city located north of Chennai on NH 5 along the border of

(AP) and

Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a state in southern India. It is the tenth largest Indian state by area and the sixth largest by population. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu is the home of the Tamil people, whose Tamil language ...

(TN) states of India. Much of Sri City area is in

. The

Satish Dhawan Space Centre Satish Dhawan Space Centre - SDSC (formerly Sriharikota Range - SHAR) is a rocket launch centre ( spaceport) operated by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It is located in Sriharikota, Tirupati district of Andhra Pradesh. Sriharikota ...

(SHAR), India's satellite/rocket launching center is located at

Sriharikota Sriharikota is a Barrier island off the Bay of Bengal coast located in the Shar Project settlement of Tirupati district in Andhra Pradesh, India. It houses the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, one of the two satellite launch centres in India (the ...

, on the eastern side of

Pulicat Lake Pulicat Lagoon is the second largest brackish water lagoon in India, (after Chilika Lake), measuring . Major part of the lagoon comes under Tirupati district of Andhra Pradesh. The lagoon is one of the three important wetlands to attract nort ...

which separates Sri City and the satellite launching station. Sri City is the largest industrial park in South India spread over of land in close proximity to Chennai.

Academic programs

The institute presently 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 ...

in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE), PhD in ECE and CSE. Its MS by Research program was suspended in 2019 due to its unpopularity.

Admissions

The admission to IIIT is through Central Seat allocation Board (CSAB). The students are allotted admission by CSAB based on their

Joint Entrance Examination 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 Sea ...

(JEE-Main) ranks. The Indian Institute of Information Technology, Sri City,

, Andhra Pradesh is listed in the CSAB website under List of participating institutes in Other Central Government / State Government Funded Technical Institutes.

References

External links

* {{Tirupati district, collapsed=true Tirupati district Sri City 2013 establishments in Andhra Pradesh Educational institutions established in 2013 Buildings and structures in Tirupati district