Academic Blocks IIT (Delhi)

India / Delhi / Dilli Cantonment / Delhi
 university, school
The Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT Delhi), is a world class institute of technology. It forms a part of the league of IITs that are situated across the country.

Established as College of Engineering in 1961, IIT Delhi was given the current name and declared an Institution of National Importance under the "Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Act, 1963" It was then accorded the status of a deemed university with powers to decide its own academic policies, to conduct its examinations, and to award its degrees.

The picturesque Institute campus extends over an area of 320 acres (1.3 km²). With clean and wide roads, the campus presents a spectacle of harmony in architectural and natural beauty. Most of the students, faculty and staff reside on the campus. The main academic building houses various teaching and research facilities. Although each department is a separate entity, all the departments together constitute an integrated complex.

Each academic year consists of two semesters and a summer term. The education system is organised around a credit system, which ensures continuous evaluation of a student's performance and provides flexibility to choose courses so as to facilitate progress at an optimum pace suited to one's ability or convenience. Each course is assigned certain number of credits depending upon the class contact hours. A minimum number of credits (around 180 for four-year B. Tech programmes and around 216 for five-year Integrated M. Tech programmes) are to be completed in order to qualify for the award of degree. The 5 year integrated programs are also known as Dual Degree programs, resulting in a B.Tech and M.Tech degree.

Two MBA programmes - a full time two year course and a part time three year course, have been launched since 1997. Lately another full time MBA program in Telecommunication Management has also been launched.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IIT_Delhi
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Coordinates:   28°32'45"N   77°11'35"E

Comments

  • But never has it in the past nor will it in the future measure up to the stature and grandeur of the All India Institute of Medical Science. IITs are good. But AIIMS is legendary. The best academic institution in the whole country:AIIMS.
  • NOTE: it's not a college as stated in the 1st line of the describption...it's an institution. the only higher instituion which grants a degree. colleges can not offer degrees, rather they are affiliated with a university and that university gives out the degrees and certification. So this isn't a college! :)
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