IIT Kharagpur
The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur or IIT KGP) is the first of seven IITs to be set up in india. It was established by the government of india in 1951. IIT Kharagpur has ranked among top ten engineering colleges in all academic ranking of Indian colleges by various engineering education surveys.
IIT Kharagpur was established with the prime objective to train scientists and engineers after India attained independence in 1947.. The students and alumni of IIT Kharagpur are informally referred to as KGPians. Among all IITs, IIT Kharagpur has the largest campus (2,100 acres) the most departments, and the highest student enrollment.

Campus
IIT Kharagpur is located 120 kilometres west of Kolkata. The campus is located five kilometres away from Kharagpur's railway station. The layout of the present campus and the design of the buildings were carried out by a group of engineers and architects under the guidance of Werner M. Moser, a Swiss architect.The 2,100 acre campus is residence to about 20,000 inhabitants.[6]
It has 18 student hostels which are located on either side of Scholars Avenue, extending from the institute gate to the B. C. Roy Technology Hospital. The three earliest halls—Patel, Azad, and Nehru—together constitute the PAN loop or Old Campus, which is located just next to Scholar's Avenue. There are seven hostels for undergraduate male students and one for undergraduate female students.. In addition, there are a few post-graduate students' hostels including two for women and a separate hostel for scholars from the armed forces.

IIT Kharagpur has 19 academic departments, 8 multi-disciplinary centres/schools, and 13 schools of excellence in addition to laboratories and central research facilities. The institute has numerous lecture halls, and several big auditoriums.

Library
the first library of IIT KGP was located in a small room of the institute's Old Building called Shaheed Bhawan. initially, it had only 2500 books. But now the central library located in the main building of the institute, is the biggest technical library in Asia.[21] It has collection of about 350,000 books and documents, and it subscribes to more than 1,600 printed and online journals.

Civic amenities

The institute campus has six guest houses, a civic hospital, four nationalised banks, four schools, a railway reservation counter and a police station within its limits. it has its own electrical sub-station, telephone exchange, a market, six restaurants..
.. Unlike some other IITs , IIT Kharagpur does not restrict outsiders' entry into the campus.the Rural Development Centre (RDC) located in the campus, helps the local community by developing customised technologies.The RDC also co-ordinates the NSS programs in IIT Kharagpur, with the members of NSS taking part in weekly community service activities such as sanitation, road construction, teaching and building educational models etc.

Admissions and academics

for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in IIT Kharagpur, students are selected on the basis of their score in written examination. Where as Admission to M.S. and Ph.D. programmes is based on written exam+a personal interview.
Admission to undergraduate programmes in all IITs is tied to the IIT-JEE( Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination), Candidates who qualify for admission through IIT-JEE can apply for admission in B.Tech. (Bachelor of Technology), Dual Degree (Integrated Bachelor of Technology and Master of Technology) and integrated M.Sc. (Master of Sciences) courses at IIT Kharagpur. Admissions to postgraduate programmes (M.Tech.) are made primarily through the GATE(Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering). Other prominent postgraduate entrance exams include JAM(Joint Admission to M.Sc), andJMET( Joint Management Entrance Test) for management studies.
IIT Kharagpur is the best engineering institute of india.it is also a member of LAOTSE, an international network of universities in Europe and Asia exchanging students and senior scholars.
In IIT Kharagpur, 15% of the seats are reserved for students belonging to Scheduled Castes (SC) and 7.5% for Scheduled Tribes (ST).

Undergraduate programmes

The under graduate programmes of IIT Kharagpur are: Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) and the Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.; integrated with corresponding masters degree, M.Sc.). The B.Tech. degree is the most common undergraduate degree in IIT Kharagpur in terms of student enrollment. It is based on a four-year programme with eight semesters. The first year of the B.Tech. curriculum has common courses from various departments. At the end of the first year, an option to change departments is given to meritorious students on the basis of their performance in the first two semesters.
From the second year onwards, the students take up courses offered exclusively by their respective departments that are known as depth courses. In addition to these, the students have to take a number of inter-disciplinary courses known as breadth courses. Separate courses from the humanities and social sciences (HSS) department, and management and information technology are also required. At the end of the third year, the B.Tech. and Dual Degree students undertake mandatory industrial training for a minimum period of eight working weeks as part of the undergraduate curriculum.In the final year of their studies, most of the students are offered jobs in industries and other organisations through the Training and Placement (T&P) section of the institute. Some students opt out of this facility in favour of higher studies, or to take up jobs by applying to recruiting organisations directly. In addition to the major degree as part of the undergraduate education, students can take up additional subjects from other departments, and by demonstrating knowledge of a discipline based on performance parameters and course objectives set by the department, earn a minor in that department.

Postgraduate and doctoral education

the postgraduate programmes of IITKhadagpur includes Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Master of Business Administration (MBA), and Master of Sciences (M.Sc.). Some specialised graduate programmes offered by IIT Kharagpur include Postgraduate Diploma in Information Technology (PGDIT), Master in Medical Science and Technology (MMST), Master of City Planning (MCP), Postgraduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law (PGDIPL), and Postgraduate Diploma in Maritime Operation & Management (PGDMOM). IIT Kharagpur offers the Doctor of Philosophy degree (Ph.D.) as part of its doctoral education programme. The doctoral scholars are given a topic of academic interest by the professor, or sometimes work on the consultancy projects sponsored by various industries. The duration of the programme is usually unspecified and depends on the specific discipline. Ph.D. scholars have to submit a dissertation as well as conduct an oral defence of their thesis. Teaching assistantships (TA) and research assistantships (RA) are provided based on the scholar's academic profile. IIT Kharagpur offers an M.S. (by research) programme; the M.Tech. and M.S. being similar to the US universities' non-thesis (course-based) and thesis (research-based) master programmes respectively.
IIT Kharagpur offers Dual Degree programs that integrate undergraduate and postgraduate studies in selected pairs of branches and specialisations. Most of the Dual Degree programs involve specialisation in the major field of education of the student. But for a dual degree involving an MBA from Vinod Gupta School of Management, the selection is made on the basis of an aptitude test of students across all engineering streams. The Dual Degree program spans a period of five years as against six years in conventional B.Tech. (four years) followed by an M.Tech. or MBA (two years).IIT Kharagpur has a management school (Vinod Gupta School of Management) and a law school (Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law) on its premises. The Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law has been opened in collaboration with George Washington University.

Continuing education

Continuing Education Programme (CEP) is the programme meant for the qualified engineers and scientists to learn new technologies and developments in their academic disciplines. As part of the programme, the institute offers formal degree programmes (M.Tech. and Ph.D.) and an Early Faculty Induction Programme (EFIP)under the Quality Improvement Programme (QIP), short-term courses supported by the All India Council for Technical Education, self-financed short-term courses supported by course fees, and certificate courses conducted as distance education. In addition to conducting educational courses, the CEP develops model curricula for engineering education. As of 2006, the CEP has facilitated publication of 103 course curriculum books. The CEP administers SIMAP (Small Industries Management Assistant Programme) and STUP (Skill-cum-Technology Upgradation Programme) on behalf of IIT Kharagpur; the institute being a corpus institute of SIDBI (Small Industries Development Bank of India).

Departments, centers & schools

• Aerospace Engineering
• Agricultural & Food Engineering
• Architecture & Regional Planning
• Botechnology
• Chemical Engineering
• Chemistry
• Civil Engineering
• Computer Science & Engineering
• Cryogenic Engineering
• Center for Educational Technology
• Electrical Engineering
• Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering
• G S Sanyal School of Telecommunications
• Geology & Geophysics
• Humanities & Social Sciences
• Industrial Engineering & Management
• Information Technology
• Materials Science
• Mathematics
• Mechanical Engineering
• Medical Science & Technology
• Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
• Mining Engineering
• Ocean Engineering & Naval Architecture
• Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences
• Physics & Meteorology
• Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law
• Reliability Engineering Centre
• Rubber Technology Centre
• Rural Development Centre
• Vinod Gupta School of Management

Academic & research facility

• Advanced VLSI lab
• Advanced Technology Development Center
• Computer & Informatics Center
• Central Research Facility
• Center for Theoretical Studies
• Central Workshop & Instruments Service
• Central Library
• Kalpana Chawla Space Technology Cell
• Media Lab Asia - IIT-KGP

Revised UG curriculum(effective from 2006)

• Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech. - 4 years)
• Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch. - 5 years)
• Dual Degree Programme (B.Tech. plus M.Tech. - 5 years)
• Master of Science (M.Sc. - Integrated - 5 years)
• Master of Science (M.Sc. - 2 years)
• Master of Technology (M.Tech - 2 years)
• Master of City Planning (MCP - 2 years)
• Master of Business Management (MBM - 2 years)
• LL.B. Degree in Intellectual Property Rights (3 years)
• Master of Medical Science & Technology (MMST - 3 years)
• Post Graduate Diploma
• Diploma Programme in Intellectual Property Law
• Master of science - by research (MS)
• Doctor of Philosphy (Ph.D.)
• Doctor of Sciences (D.Sc.)

Contact Us

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur-721 302, INDIA
Telephone Number +91-3222-255221 | FAX : +91-3222-255303

For more information visit: http://www.iitkgp.ac.in