IIT Kharagpur, Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, Bachelors in Technology, IIT, Kharagpur

IIT or the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur is the oldest institute for technical education in independent India, formally inaugurated in the year 1951 by Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad, the then Minister of Education and famous freedom fighter.

Facts
Type of Institution	Autonomous
Location	Kharagpur
Ownership	Government
Courses offered	Integrated M.Sc, Dual degree programs, and B.Tech
Admission Procedure	Entrance tests
Departments and Centers	Vinod Gupta School of Management School of Water Resources Rural Development Centre Rubber Technology Centre Reliability Engineering Centre Ranbir and Chitra Gupta School of Infrastructure Design and Management Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering and Entrepreneurship Physics and Meteorology Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture Mining Engineering Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Medical Science and Technology Mechanical Engineering Mathematics Materials Science Information Technology Industrial Engineering and Management Humanities and Social Sciences Geology and Geophysics G.S Sanyal School of Telecommunication Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering Electrical Engineering Centre for Educational Technology Cryogenic Engineering Computer Science and Engineering Civil Engineering Chemistry Chemical Engineering Biotechnology Architecture and Regional Engineering Agricultural and Food Engineering Aerospace Engineering
Year of Establishment	1951 (formal inauguration)
Campus Placements	Student placements for the batch graduating in June 2012, the placement procedure will begin from December 1^st 2011. The placement procedure will continue until April 15^th 2012.
Website	www.iitkgp.ac.in
Events	Conferences and seminars on the following - Eighteenth National Conference on Communication on 3^rd to 5^th February 2012 1^st International Workshop on “Nanoparticles and their applications in Medicine”, on January 3^rd to 4^th 2012 “Frontiers of Infrastructure Finance”, on December 29^th to 30^th 2011(International conference) “Advances in Supply Chain and Manufacturing Management”, on December 16^th to 18^th 2011 (International conference) “Theoretical and Applied Physics”, on December 1^st and 2^nd, 2011 (International conference) “Advances in Materials and Materials Processing”, on December 9^th to 11^th 2011 (International conference) “Safety in Mines Research Institutes”, on December 7^th to 10^th 2011 (34^th International conference) “Technological Innovation in Shipbuilding”, on December 8^th to 9^th 2011 “Recent Trends in Chemistry”, on October 21^st to 23^rd 2011 (Diamond Jubilee Symposium)
Eligibility Criteria	Joint Management Entrance Test for enrollment into Management courses. JEE for admission into Bachelor’s degree program, GATE for admission into post graduate courses, JAM for enrollment into M.Sc.

A number of research as well as technical development areas are being worked upon by the students of IIT-Kharagpur.

Ranging from “bioprocess for sandalwood somatic seeding production” to an “Infrared shaft misalignment detector”, there are a number of development projects that students have successfully completed.

Few of the research facilities offered to students of the institute include Advanced VLSI Laboratory, Analytical Food Testing Laboratory, Kalpana Chawla Space Technology Cell, and Ocean and Atmospheric Science and Technology Cell.

They also get the opportunity to be taught by the President of India who is the visiting faculty in this autonomous institute. IIT in Kharagpur has topped the ratings of the best engineering institutes in India numerous times in various surveys done every year. It also has its presence in cities of Bhubaneshwar and Kolkata.

The mailing address of IIT Kharagpur is :
Kharagpur – 721302, contact number – +91 3222255221.

Engineering Colleges by State –

Andhra Pradesh	Bihar	Goa
Gujarat	Haryana	Himachal Pradesh
Jammu & Kashmir	Kerala	Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra	Orissa	Jharkhand
Punjab	Rajasthan	Sikkim
Tamil Nadu	Uttar Pradesh	West Bengal

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