IITs (15 Nos.), NITs (22 Nos.), IIMs ( 14 Nos.), Law Universities (LU, 14 Nos.

) The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are a group of 15 autonomous engineering and technology-oriented institutes of higher education established and declared as Institutes of National Importance by the Parliament of India. The IITs were created to train scientists and engineers, with the aim of developing a skilled workforce to support the economic and social development of India. In order of establishment, they are located in Kharagpur (1950; as IIT 1951), Mumbai (1958), Chennai (1959), Kanpur (1959), Delhi (1961; as IIT 1963), Guwahati (1994), Roorkee (1847; as IIT 2001), Ropar (2008), Bhubaneswar (2008), Gandhinagar (2008), Hyderabad (2008), Patna (2008), Jodhpur (2008), Mandi (2009) and Indore (2009). Apart from these ITBHU Varanasi is also slated for conversion as IIT Varanasi. Some IITs were established with financial assistance and technical expertise from UNESCO, Germany, the United States, Japan and the Soviet Union. Each IIT is an autonomous university, linked to the others through a common IIT Council, which oversees their administration. They have a common admission process for undergraduate admissions, using the Joint Entrance Examination (popularly known as IITJEE) to select around 8,000 undergraduate candidates a year, who will eventually receive a B. Tech. degree in Engineering. The equally coveted graduate level program that awards M. Tech. degree in engineering is administered by the older IITs (Kharagpur, Bombay, Madras, Kanpur, Delhi) and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. M. Tech. admissions are done on the basis of the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering, (popularly known as GATE test). In addition to the B. Tech. and M. Tech. programs that IITs are mostly known for, IITs also award other graduate degrees such as M.S. in engineering, M.Sc in Math, Physics and Chemistry, MBA and Ph.D. through tests such as JMET, JAM and CEED. About 15,500 undergraduate and 12,000 graduate students study in the IITs, in addition to research scholars. IIT alumni have achieved success in a variety of professions. Most of the IITs were created in early 1950s and 1960s as the Institutes of National Importance through special acts of Indian Parliament. The success of the IITs led to the creation of the Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIIT) in the late 1990s and in the 2000s. The fifteen IITs are located in: (15 Nos.): Name IIT Kharagpur IIT Bombay IIT Madras IIT Kanpur IIT Delhi IIT Guwahati IIT Roorkee Short Name IITKGP IITB IITM IITK IITD IITG IITR Established 1951 1958 1959 1959 1963 1994 2001 City/Town Kharagpur Mumbai Chennai Kanpur New Delhi Guwahati Roorkee State/UT West Bengal Maharashtra Tamil Nadu Uttar Pradesh New Delhi Assam Uttrakhand

IIT Ropar IIT Bhubaneshwar IIT Hyderabad IIT Gandhinagar IIT Patna IIT Rajasthan IIT Mandi IIT Indore

IITRPR IITBBS IITH IITGn IITP IITJ IIT Mandi IITI

2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2009 2009

Rupnagar Bhubaneshwar Hyderabad Gandhinagar Patna Jodhpur Mandi Indore

Punjab Orissa Andhra Pradesh Gujarat Bihar Rajasthan Himachal Pradesh Madhya Pradesh

The first IIT was established in 1951, in Kharagpur (near Kolkata) in the state of West Bengal. It has 29 academic departments, centers and schools, spread over an 8.5 square kilometres (2,100 acres) campus that is a self-contained township of over 15,000 inhabitants. It has about 450 faculty; 2,200 employees; 3,000 undergraduates; 2,500 postgraduates and 950 research scholars. The students live in 17 hostels (called Halls of Residence). IIT Kharagpur also has a medical technology school (School of Medical Science and Technology), a management school (Vinod Gupta School of Management, a law school (Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law) and an infrastructure designing school (Ranbir and Chitra Gupta School of Infrastructure Designing and Management) within its premises. The second IIT to be established, IIT Bombay, was founded in 1958 in Powai, Mumbai (Bombay). It was set up with assistance from UNESCO and the Soviet Union, which provided technical expertise.

National Institutes of Technology

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru sought to develop India as a leader in science and technology. The Government started fourteen RECs between 1959 and 1965, at Bhopal, Allahabad, Calicut, Durgapur, Kurukshetra, Jamshedpur, Jaipur, Nagpur, Rourkela, Srinagar, Surathkal, Surat, Tiruchirappalli, and Warangal). It established one in Silchar in 1967 and added two others between 1970 and 1990, located at Hamirpur, and Jalandhar. Name Established Short Name Upgraded as NIT Location/Temporary Campus in Mentor NIT State/UT (1) Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar 1987 NITJ 2002 Jalandhar Punjab (2) National Institute of Technology, Agartala 1965 NITAGARTALA 2006 Agartala Tripura (3) Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad 1961 MNNIT 2002 Allahabad Uttar Pradesh (4) Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal 1960 MANIT 2002 Bhopal Madhya Pradesh

(5) National Institute of Technology, Calicut 1961 NITC 2002 Calicut Kerala Lakshadweep (6) National Institute of Technology, Durgapur 1960 NITDGP 2005 Durgapur West Bengal (7) National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur 1986 NITH 2002 Hamirpur Himachal Pradesh (8) Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur 1963 MNIT 2002 Jaipur Rajasthan (9) National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur 1960 NITJSR 2002 Jamshedpur Jharkhand (10) National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra 1963 NITKKR 2002 Kurukshetra Haryana (11) Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur 1960 VNIT 2002 Nagpur Maharashtra (12) National Institute of Technology, Patna 1886 NITP 2004 Patna Bihar (13) National Institute of Technology, Raipur 1956 NITRR 2005 Raipur Chhattisgarh (14) National Institute of Technology, Rourkela 1961 NITRKL 2002 Rourkela Orissa (15) National Institute of Technology, Silchar 1967 NITS 2002 Silchar Assam (16) National Institute of Technology, Srinagar 1960 NITSRI 2003 Srinagar Jammu & Kashmir (17) S V National Institute of Technology, Surat 1961 SVNIT 2003 Surat Gujarat (18) National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal 1960 NITK 2002 Surathkal Karnataka (19) National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli 1964 NITT 2003 Tiruchirapalli Tamil Nadu (20) National Institute of Technology, Warangal 1959 NITW 2002 Warangal Andhra Pradesh (21) National Institute of Technology Goa 2010 NITG 2010 (23) National Institute of Technology Puducherry, Karaikal 2010 NITP 2010 (25) National Institute of Technology Delhi 2010 -- 2010 (27) National Institute of Technology Uttarakhand 2010 NITU 2010 (28) National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra Uttarakhand (29) National Institute of Technology Mizoram 2010 -- 2010 (31) National Institute of Technology Meghalaya 2010 -- 2010 National Institute of Technology Manipur 2010 -- 2010 National Institute of Technology, Agartala Manipur National Institute of Technology Nagaland 2010 NITN 2010 National Institute of Technology, Silchar Nagaland National Institute of Technology Arunachal Pradesh 2010 NITACH 2010 National Institute of Technology, Durgapur Arunachal Pradesh National Institute of Technology Sikkim 2010 -- 2010

Admission to NIT Bachelors degree programs follows a merit list published after the result of the All India Engineering Entrance Examination. Applicants are also required to have at a minimum, a pass grade in the class 12 exam or equivalent.

Each NIT takes 50 percent of students from its home state and 50 percent from the rest of India. They implement an affirmative action policy called reservation for the "Other Backward Classes" at 27%, "Scheduled castes" at 15% and Scheduled tribes at 7.5%. A fixed number of seats is reserved for NRI students and foreign nationals. Admissions policy is changing so that admissions of the non-local half of the student body would be made on the basis of the All India Rank, irrespective of any state seats, A possible future revision would admit all students on a national basis, irrespective of state quotas.[13] [14][citation
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The AIEEE exam was taken by about one and half million students in April, 2010.[15]

IIMs

1 IIM Calcutta 2 IIM Ahmedabad 3 IIM Bangalore(bengaluru) 4 IIM Lucknow 5 IIM Kozhikode 6 IIM Indore 7 IIM Shillong 8 IIM Ranchi 9 IIM Rohtak

Future IIMs
The 11th five year plan of India proposed 7 new IIMs by the end of 2012. Of these, the government has announced plans to establish 6. These IIMs will come up in the cities/states of Ranchi (To be operational from session 2010-11), Raipur (To be operational from session 2010-11), Rohtak (To be operational from session 2010-11)[40] , Tiruchirapalli, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand .[41]

Admission process
The CAT (Common Admission Test) conducted by the IIMs is a very competitive test conducted for admission to around 2000 seats of graduate programs in management at the seven campuses, and is usually considered one of the most competitive exams in the world[44], with a supposed success rate of about one in two hundred[45],(49.5% of seats are reserved and therefore not merit based). Each institute conducts group discussions and personal interviews to evaluate the students shortlisted after the test. On 1 May 2009, it was announced that from CAT 2009 would be a Computer Based Test. The contract for conducting computer based CAT was awarded to Prometric - the company that conducts GMAT