The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) is a college of engineering located in Chennai, India. Founded in 1959, it is chronologically the third among the Indian Institutes of Technology established by the Government of India to provide high quality education in the fields of engineering and technology.

The city that IIT Madras is located in has since changed its name to Chennai; nonetheless, having been established by a charter of the Central Government of India, its official name remains the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

General

The Institute is a self-contained campus with about 360 faculty, 4000 students and 1250 administrative and supporting staff. The campus has an area of 630 acres (2.55 km²), most of which is protected forest, and has a large population of chital (spotted deer) and black buck.

History

• Location
• DAAD collaboration

Academics

• Degrees offered: IIT Madras offers UG, PG and research degrees in 15 disciplines in Engineering, Sciences, Humanities and Management. Around 400 faculty of international repute belonging to various science and engineering disciplines are engaged in teaching, research and consultancy activities here.

• JEE
• Credit system: With the other IITs, IITM follows a credit system for evaluating academic performance. The GPA is on a scale of 0 to 10.
• NCC/NSS/NSO

Research

The Institute has several departments and advanced research centres in various disciplines of engineering and the pure sciences, with nearly 100 laboratories organised on a unique pattern of functioning. A faculty of international repute, a brilliant student community, excellent technical and supporting staff and an effective administration have all contributed to the pre-eminent status of IIT Madras.

• Departments

• • Engineering
    • Aerospace Engineering
    • Applied Mechanics
    • Biotechnology
    • Chemical Engineering
    • Civil Engineering
    • Computer Science and Engineering
    • Electrical Engineering
    • Mechanical Engineering
    • Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
    • Ocean Engineering

• • Science
    • Chemistry
    • Mathematics
    • Physics

• • Humanities and Social Sciences

• • Management Studies

Campus

IITM campus spreads over 630 acres (2.55 km²) with most of it covered with tropical forest. The campus is noticeably cooler than Chennai city, due to the abundant tree growth.

• Natural life
  • Flora
  • Fauna

• • • Monkeys
    • deer
    • snakes
    • crocodiles
    • standard Indian animals - crows, dogs, cats, aquatic birds
• lake
• bus

Student life

• Hostels

IIT Madras students are strongly encouraged to stay in the hostels, where a large number of extracurricular activities complement a hectic academic routine. Not surprisingly, IIT alumni remember their hostels most fondly amongst all the other aspects of IIT life. IIT Madras has 13 hostels, of which one (Sharavati) is exclusively occupied by girls and one (Sarayu) is exclusively occupied by freshers. Until recently, Sarayu was the ladies' hostel, and the freshers were not in a separate hostel. Most hostels in IIT are occupied exclusively either by undergraduate or graduate students; however, some hostels are occupied by both, and some hostels have been known to switch from undergraduate hostels to joint hostels to graduate hostels and back from time to time. Students are assigned to hostels by the Institute Administration after their fresher years, and usually spend the entire period of their stay in the Institute in the same hostel.

IIT Madras hostels are named after the principal rivers of India. Because the buses that ply the Institute are named after mountains, a common epigram about IIT Madras is that it is the only place where the mountains move and the rivers remain still.

The hostels of IIT currently are:

• • Krishna
  • Cauvery
  • Bramhaputra
  • Tapti
  • Narmada
  • Godavari
  • Saraswati
  • Jamuna
  • Ganga
  • Alakananda
  • Mandakini
  • Sharavati
  • Sarayu

In recent years, the hostels of IIT Madras have become more and more insufficient for an intake that keeps increasing each year. Several new hostels are currently under construction.

• OAT
• Saarang,Shaastra
• campus magazines
• male/female ratio
• lingo

Other info

Location of IIT Madras

IIT Madras is located on Chennai's Sardar Patel Road and is flanked by Adyar, Taramani and Velachery. The campus is close to the Rajbhavan . The 630 acres (2.55 km²) of land which form the campus were once part of the Rajbhavan and were later donated to the Institute. IIT Madras is recognized as a separate postal zone.

The campus is midway between the Chennai Airport and the Chennai Central Railway station and is well connected by buses. It is around 14 km from the Central Railway station and the central bus depot. Adyar has its own bus terminus as well.

Two parallel roads, Bonn Avenue and Delhi avenue, lead you through the residential zone, under a canopy of green, to Gajendra Circle (otherwise called GC) and the administrative block. Buses ply between the gate and other locations on campus at regular intervals. Named after mountains, the IITM buses ply to and fro the GC, academic zone and hostels (named after rivers) for a nominal fare. (This has infact led to the joke that IIT is the land of moving mountains and stationary rivers!)

External links

• Official website
• The IIT Brand