Indian Institute of Technology
Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are the premier engineering colleges in India. They were founded in the 1950s by the Indian Government under a special act by the President, and modelled along the lines of great US universities, notably MIT. The IIT campuses were founded in
Kharagpur (1950), Mumbai (1958), Chennai (1959), Kanpur (1960), New Delhi (1961), and more recently in Guwahati (1995) and Roorkee (2001).
There are about 1500 undergraduate and 2000 graduate students in each IIT. Many graduates of the IITs go to the USA to work and to study. The IITs are well respected worldwide and are often referred to as the MIT-equivalents in India. Many of the IIT Alumni have excelled in Silicon Valley.
A student/alumnus of the Indian Institutes of Technology is known as an IITian.
Notable Alumni
| Name | Campus | Year | Achievement
| | Ajay Bharadwaj | Delhi | 82 | President, Biocon India
| | Arjun Malhotra | Kharagpur | 70 | co-founder, HCL Technologies
| | Arun Sarin | - | - | CEO-designate of Vodafone
| | Avi Nash | - | - | Advisory Director, Goldman Sachs
| | Bharat Desai | Mumbai | 75 | Chairman and CEO, Syntel Inc
| | Gururaj Deshpande | Chennai | - | co-founder Sycamore Networks
| | Kanwal Rekhi | Mumbai | - | CEO Ensim Corporation; ex-CTO Novell
| | Manohar Parrikar | Mumbai | 78 | Chief Minister, Goa
| | N.R. Narayana Murthy | - | - | co-founder and Chairman of Infosys
| | Nandan Nilekani | Mumbai | 78 | co-founder and CEO of Infosys
| | Rajat Gupta | Delhi | 71 | Managing Director, McKinsey & Company
| | Rakesh Gangwal | - | - | CEO Worldspan, ex-CEO US Airways Group
| | Ravi Uppal | Delhi | - | Vice-Chairman and MD, ABB India
| | Sanjiv Sidhu | - | - | founder and CEO, I2 Technologies
| | Som Mittal | Kanpur | 73 | CEO Digital GlobalSoft
| | Victor Menezes | Mumbai | - | Senior Vice Chairman, Citigroup
| | Vindi Banga | - | - | chairman, HLL
| | Vinod Khosla | Delhi | 76 | co-founder Sun Microsystems
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List of fictional IITians
- Asok, character in the Dilbert comic strip
External links
Referenced By
Ajit Jogi | Bombay | Bombay, India | History of Mumbai | Indian Institute of Science | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore | Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee | Mathematical timeline | Mumbai | Mumbai, India | Satyendra Dubey | Timeline of mathematics
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