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The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), are a group of thirteen 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 after independence in 1947. The students and alumni of IITs are colloquially referred to as IITians. SourceThere will be few more new Indian Institutes of Technology in the near future under an expansion plan.
In order of establishment, they are located in Kharagpur (1950; as IIT 1951[1]), Mumbai (1958), Chennai (1959), Kanpur (1959), Delhi (1961; as IIT 1963), Guwahati (1994), Roorkee (1847; as IIT 2001), Bhubaneswar (2008), Gandhinagar (2008), Hyderabad (2008), Patna (2008), Punjab (2008) and Rajasthan (2008). The Government of India has announced plans to add three more IITs, to be established at Indore, Mandi and Varanasi (via conversion of the IT BHU). Some IITs were established with financial assistance and technical expertise from UNESCO, Germany, the United States, and 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 IIT-JEE) to select around 4,000 undergraduate candidates a year. Postgraduate Admissions are done on the basis of the GATE, JMET, JAM and CEED. About 15,500 undergraduate and 12,000 graduate students study in the IITs, in addition to research scholars. SourceThese institutions are geographically distributed all across India. The following interactive map that allows different overlays, pan and zoom options shows their locations on the map.
You can move around the map or change the view of the map by using the control bar on the top left side of the map and by using the satellite and hybrid option to add more information to the map.
The graduates from these seven sister institutions in general have done well locally in India as well internationally with US as being one of the main destination.
IIT alumni have achieved success in a variety of professions.[2] Owing to the autonomy of the IITs, these institutes are among those few institutes (the other institutes being National Institutes of Technology or the NITs) in India that offer degrees in technology (B. Tech.) at the undergraduate level as opposed to the Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degrees awarded by most other Indian universities. 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. SourceThe two videos below tell many interesting facts and stories about these institutions of Engineering learning.
Video One
Video Two
IIT graduate have made their mark by appearing in highly popular cartoon strip Dilbert by Scott Adams.
In this strip Asok who has been promoted to project manager from the lowly intern position boasts about his mental prowess simultaneously displaying a low emotional intelligence quotient.
Septemebr 15,2003The next day's strip builds on the same theme
and it is now February 1,2009 Asok has survived in his job and has mellowed considerably. He has learned how not to boast about his superior mental abilities to function within corporate culture while the company is going down hill financially under severe recession.
and recently he fell for a management trick from his pointy hair boss
2 comments:
If one goes by the definition of education being the ability to learn to cope with the environment,then Indian students would certainly be the most educated in the world. They have learnt for instance to cope with an insane level of competition, what with having to compete with hundreds of thousands of peers to secure the admission. That would necessitate diversion of energy and time into something which if avoided could be put to more productive areas. The demand supply situation in respect of the number of admission seekers and the number of institutions is grotesquely imbalanced. That leaves much to be done in most fields of education.We very badly need far greater number of institutions in most fields. India would then be able to educate its students instead of sending them in droves to other countries. Only then could we truly stand tall in the global arena and take pride.
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