Amongst the 8 new IITs, including IIT Ropar, IIT Mandi, IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Indore, IIT Guwahati, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Roorkee, IIT Hyderabad has struggled to attract the maximum number of top rankers. Out of top 1000 rank holders, IIT Hyderabad attracted 20 top rankers. The number has trebled from only 7 last year. This is quite significant since IIT Indore has been able to enrol only 15 students out of top 2000 rank holders. IIT Ropar got 11 and Mandi, Gandhinagar, and the Indian School of Mines Dhanbad got one student each. The number of top 1000 JEE rank holding students has remained almost the same for older IITs like Roorke and IIT Kharagpur.
There are many reasons why students are choosing IIT Hyderabad over other new IITs. IIT Hyderabad has innovative curriculum, one of the best student-faculty ration amongst all IITs, better placement ecosystem, and freedom to do research from the first year itself.
There are other factors too that have attracted top rankers to IIT Hyderabad. The institute enjoys proximity to the International airport. Plus, a lot of apartments have come up to fulfil demand from the professionals working and living in Hyderabad. New organizations are setting up offices in Hyderabad. These organizations are likely to hire locally, attracting students to IIT Hyderabad.
IIT Hyderabad was established by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India on 18th of August, 2008. The campus is located in Medak District, Telangana, India. The academic blocks are newly renovated buildings with all the facilities like hostels, classrooms, offices, recreation, sports, and medical facilities.
IIT Hyderabad has 11 engineering departments, three science departments, one liberal arts department, and one design department. Three new departments are being proposed. IIT Hyderabad offers Undergraduate B.Tech degrees in eight disciplines of Engineering, M.Tech degrees in eight disciplines of Engineering, postgraduate and Research degrees across all disciplines in Engineering, Sciences and Liberal Arts.
IIT Hyderabad has excellent faculty. There are about 142 faculty belonging to science and engineering departments of the Institute who are engaged in teaching, research and industrial consultancy. The faculty-student ratio is 1:12 which is better than almost all the IITs.
The curriculum offered at IIT Hyderabad is based on Fractal Academics which is a unique and novel academic programme. In addition to providing regular B.Tech programmes, IIT Hyderabad has been making substantial efforts in research and industrial consultancy. The institute has been allocated projects from industrial and government funding agencies. It is also involved in the DISANET project, an Indo-Japanese collaboration, for disaster mitigation.
Many student activities are being organized by IIT Hyderabad. Elan is the annual technical and cultural festival which is usually held in the beginning of the academic year. The festival includes workshops, seminars, lectures, demonstrations, cultural performances, and live concerts. Nvision is another inter-institute technical festival that is being held at IIT Hyderabad.
Students prefer old IITs and the established NITs compared to the new IITs but the statistics reveal that new IITs like IIT Hyderabad have also come a long way and would soon be able to establish themselves globally.
