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

Indian Institutes of Information Technology Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) are Centrally Funded Technical Institutes, centrally funded technical institutes located across India. They are a group of 26 List of engineering branches, interdisciplinary technology-base ...

(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

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, 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

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

Academics

IIITG offers B.Tech. 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

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

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) 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 Computer science and engineering (CSE) is an academic subject comprising approaches of computer science and computer engineering. There is no clear division in computing between science and engineering, just like in the field of materials science ...

* Department of

Electronics & Communication Engineering Electronic engineering is a sub-discipline of electrical engineering that emerged in the early 20th century and is distinguished by the additional use of Passivity (engineering), active components such as semiconductor devices to amplify and contr ...

* Department of

Mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

* Department of

Humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture, including Philosophy, certain fundamental questions asked by humans. During the Renaissance, the term "humanities" referred to the study of classical literature a ...

and

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(English, Linguistics, Economics and Political Science)

Rankings

IIIT, Guwahati was ranked 112 among all engineering colleges in India by the

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(NIRF) in 2022.

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 , or Guwahati Airport, is an international airport serving the List of cities in Assam, largest city of Assam and the capital of the state within it, Guwahati and Dispur, in India. It is the pri ...

, 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.

References

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