What IT Does: Provide meaningful education, conduct original research of the highest standard and provide leadership in technological innovation.
Mission: To pursue excellence in education, research and innovation by
Enabling a creative and dynamic learning environment,
Vision: To create, disseminate and translate knowledge in science, engineering and allied disciplines that will best serve society.
Size & Presence: We are a mini-academic –city, a self-sustained, lush-green campus spread across 1055 acres in Kanpur UP with about 14,000 inhabitants including faculty members, students, staff and helping hands.
Best Known For: IIT Kanpur was ranked third among engineering colleges by India Today in 2021.
Good Bits: Also IIT Kanpur is among the top 100 universities of the world in terms of citations per faculty, wherein it bagged 93rd position in QS World University Ranking 2022 and India's 4th best University in terms of the Employer Reputation as judged by 2021 ranking survey.
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) is a public technical university located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was declared to be an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India under the Institutes of Technology Act. Established in 1959 as one of the first Indian Institutes of Technology, the institute was created with the assistance of a consortium of nine US research universities as part of the Kanpur Indo-American Programme.
IIT Kanpur was established by an Act of Parliament in 1959. The institute was started in December 1959 in a room in the canteen building of the Harcourt Butler Technological Institute at Agricultural Gardens in Kanpur. In 1963, the institute moved to its present location, on the Grand Trunk Road near the locality of Kalyanpur in the Kanpur district. The campus was designed by Achyut Kavinde in a modernist style.
During the first ten years of its existence, a consortium of nine US universities (namely MIT, UCB, California Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Carnegie Institute of Technology, University of Michigan, Ohio State University, Case Institute of Technology and Purdue University) helped set up IIT Kanpur's research laboratories and academic programmes under the Kanpur Indo-American Programme (KIAP). The first director of the institute was P. K. Kelkar (after whom the Central Library was renamed in 2002).
Under the guidance of economist John Kenneth Galbraith, IIT Kanpur was the first institute in India to offer Computer science education. The earliest computer courses were started at IIT Kanpur in August 1963 on an IBM 1620 system. The initiative for computer education came from the Electrical engineering department, then under the chairmanship of Prof. H.K. Kesavan, who was concurrently the chairman of Electrical Engineering and head of the Computer Centre. Prof. Harry Huskey of the University of California, Berkeley, who preceded Kesavan, helped with the computer activity at IIT-Kanpur.In 1971, the institute began an independent academic program in Computer Science and Engineering, leading to MTech and PhD degrees.
In 1972 the KIAP program ended, in part because of tensions due to the U.S. support of Pakistan. Government funding was also reduced as a reaction to the sentiment that the IITs were contributing to the brain drain. The institute's annual technical festival, Techkriti, was first started in 1995.
IIT Kanpur is located on the Grand Trunk Road, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) west of Kanpur City and measures close to 420 hectares (1,000 acres). This land was donated by the Government of Uttar Pradesh in 1960 and by March 1963 the institute had moved to its current location. The institute has around 6478 students with 3938 undergraduate students and 2540 postgraduate students and about 500 research associates.
The cultural activities at IITK nourish the mind, body and spirit of the campus community. The student community is very enthusiastic about all forms of cultural expression. The IITK annual calendar has a generous sprinkling of cultural events. IITK also hosts major cultural events every year with the participation of students from all over India.
Besides being host to great artists IITK also supports budding talents among the campus community. There are many clubs that promote different cultural activities. It is a great place to pursue your passion for the fine and performing arts.
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