Indian Institute of Information Technology, Ranchi

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Indian Institute of Information Technology Ranchi
भारतीय सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान रांची
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Ranchi Logo.png
Other name
IIIT Ranchi, IIITR
Mottoउद्यमेन हि सिध्यन्ति कार्याणि(Sanskrit)
Motto in English
Efforts alone bring success in deeds.
Type PPP
Established2016;8 years ago (2016)
Affiliation IIIT
Chairman Arun Jain
DirectorRajeev Srivastava [1]
Visitor President of India
Undergraduates 270 [2]
Location, ,
23°18′58″N85°22′26″E / 23.316°N 85.374°E / 23.316; 85.374
CampusUnder construction, ~60 acres [2] [3]
Nickname IIITians, triple-I-Tians
Website www.iiitranchi.ac.in
Orientation session 2023 IIIT Ranchi orientation 2023.jpg
Orientation session 2023

Indian Institute of Information Technology, Ranchi (IIIT Ranchi or IIITR), is one of the Indian Institutes of Information Technology, a group of 25 Interdisciplinary Technical Universities of higher education started by Government of India, focused on Information Technology.

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Established in 2016, it mainly offers undergraduate programmes for computer science and electronics. It is an "Institute of National Importance", [4] as declared by an act of parliament. [2]

It is operated on a PPP model and funded by Government of India (50%), Government of Jharkhand (35%) and Industry Partners (15%) namely CIL, TCS and Tata Tech. [2]

History

In December 2015, the central government signed an MoU to establish three IIITs at Ranchi, Nagpur and Pune. [5] In 2016, IIIT Ranchi started under the mentorship of NIT Jamsedpur, with only 60 students in the first batch. [6] In 2017, The Indian Institutes of Information Technology (Public-Private Partnership) Act, 2017 was passed that conferred the INI status on 15 IIITs including IIIT Ranchi. [7]

In May 2023, President Murmu on her three-day Jharkhand visit attended the second convocation of IIIT Ranchi. [8] In November, PM Modi laid the foundation stone for the new campus. [9]

Campus

At present, IIIT Ranchi is operating from its interim campuses situated in [BSNL ARTTC Campus(Khelgaon campus. Around 60 acres of land has been allotted for the permanent campus in Sanga, Kanke and the campus is under construction. [6]

Academics

It offers BTech, MTech and PhD programmes in Computer Science and ECE.

Admissions to undergraduate programs are done along with the IITs, NITs & IIITs on the basis of the JEE Main rank. Seats are filled through JOSAA and the CSAB rounds.

The institute offers the following BTech programs: [2]

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