Accomodation

The institute is fully residential. Students are accommodated in 20 Halls of Residence and the staff is provided with quarters. Accommodation for visitors is arranged in the Technology Guest House, CEC Guest House, Alumni Guest House or CTS Visitors Hall, or if need arises, in a students' Hall of Residence.

Food

All the Halls of Residence and Guest houses have regular catering facilities. Other eating places are Sahara, Dreamland, Vegies, Super-Duper, Tikka, Billoo's Restaurant etc. Some joints located within the Institute premises serve tea, coffee, soft drinks and light snacks.

Market

For daily necessities and groceries, one can walk down to the Tech Market. The market also has medicine stores, tailoring shops, bookshops and facilities for photocopying, word-processing and offset printing. A larger market, Gole Bazaar is about 5 km from the Campus.

Banks

Three banks are located inside the Campus. The State Bank of India is close to the Institute and provides foreign exchange facilities also. The Syndicate Bank is situated on the first floor of the Institute main building. The Punjab National Bank is situated in the Tech Market where business transactions are carried out in the afternoon.

Hospital

The B.C.Roy Technology Hospital is located at the center of the Campus. It provides indoor and outdoor medical facilities for common ailments. Complicated cases are referred for treatment to the State Hospital or to the Railway Hospital, both of them are located about 2 km from the Campus.

Gymkhana

Technology Students' Gymkhana is the nerve center for sports, cultural and social activities. It has a number of indoor and outdoor stadia, a modern swimming pool and a gymnasium. Music Society, Film Society, Dramatics Society, Aquatics Society and many more special interest groups are supported by the Gymkhana.

Library

The Central Library offers about 300,000 volumes in an open shelf system on different fields of science and technology, humanities and social sciences. The library subscribes to about 1400 periodicals. The library system is fully computerized and users can access foreign university libraries through wide-area network facilities.

Computer Network

The backbone of lIT Kharagpur network is based on gigabit fibre optic technology. All the Departmental LANs are connected to the gigabit fibre optic backbone as separate VLANs. Three links are in use to provide email and Internet facilities. All laboratories, faculty and officers chambers, All rooms in halls of residence are provided with Internet connectivity.

Research Facilities

Latest state-of-the-art research facilities are available at IIT. All the Departments, Centers and Schools are equipped with most modern instruments. Central Research Facility caters to the need of all the researchers and outside organizations.

The international placements began in 2006.Two foreign companies, oil giants Schlumberger and Royal Dutch Shell, visited IIT Kharagpur that year and offered annual salaries to the tune of $80,000.^[60] The reason for late international placements was that earlier the IIT Kharagpur was fully dedicated to the service of the nation, as its motto says, but after the fee hike, it had to abandon its policy.According to IT magazine Dataquest's annual survey, IIT Kharagpur is the second best technology college in terms of placement in India.

The top domestic compensation in 2008 came in at Rs 1.8 million per annum.In 2011 batch, Goldman Sachs recruited 10 students on a package of2.6 million (US$41,000) per annum.

Barclays Capital recruited 11 students with a package of2 million (US$32,000) per annum in December 2009. The highest salary offered till now is17 million (US$270,000) per annum by social networking site Facebook in an off-shore recruitment (of which Employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) were offered valued at Rs 10 million) in December 2010.The 2010 batch of BTech students saw 94% placements while the remaining preferred IIMs or entrepreneurship.Deutsche Bank recruited 9 students on a package of1.5 million (US$24,000) per annum.^[69] For 2012 batch, Facebook has made the highest offer US$150,000 to four students.For 2013 batch, Three students have bagged salaries of8 million (US$130,000) a year while eight others have got offers of7.5 million (US$120,000) from Google, Facebook and Microsoft.For 2014 batch, the highest package, offered to a student stands at around9 million (US$140,000) from Google.