The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur) is one of the premier engineering colleges in India. Established in the year 1951, IIT KGP as it is popularly known. The institute constitutes 19 academic departments, 8 multi-disciplinary centers and 13 schools supported by a team of more than 470 faculties and around 2000 non teaching staffs. IIT KGP is providing undergraduate, post graduate and doctorate programmes in various branches of sciences, engineering, technology and architecture to more than 5500 students.
Apart from the degree and doctorate programmes, IIT KGP also offers short-term professional courses for executives and technologists from various industries and Government departments. Blessed by state of the art facilities, IIT KGPâ??s programmes are highly research oriented addressing numerous applied industrial problems. The institute has valuable linkage with a large number of recruiting companies that participates in the annual placement of its students, enabling it to maintain a consistent placement record. Listed below are some of the major programmes available at IIT Kharagpur:
- Bachelor of Technology (Hons.)
- Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.)
- Master of Technology (M.Tech.)
- Dual Degree - B.Tech and M.Tech or MBA, etc.
IIT KGP is blessed with a state of the art infrastructure which houses all the essential and advanced facilities. Listed below are some of the salient features of the instituteâ??s infrastructure:
- A modern Central Library with more than 1, 00,000 bound journals
- Well maintained hostel facilities for students
- Guest Houses
- Nehru Museum
- Photography & Audio-Visual facilities
- Printing and Reprographic facilities
IIT Kharagpur is also equipped with technologically advanced laboratories. Some of them are:
- Computer Laboratories
- Building Science & Construction Laboratory
- Design Simulation Laboratory
- GIS mapping and digitization
- Materials Testing Laboratory
- Modeling Workshop
- Planning Informatics and GIS Laboratory, etc.
IIT Kharagpur aims at providing 100% placement to its graduates. The institute is linked with a vast number of recruiting companies that participates in the annual campus placement program.
Listed below are some of the major recruiting companies which participates in the annual placement program:
- Bank of America
- Bharat Electronics Limited
- CAE Simulation Technologies
- China State Construction
- Cisco Systems
- Connexious
- Credit Suisse
- CTS
- Essar Group
- Futures First
- Geodesic Information Systems
- Goldman Sachs
- Headstrong
- HSBC Global
- ICICI Lombard
- Insilica
- Intuit
- iRunway
- IVY Comptec
- Kawasaki Microelectronics
- KPMG
- LSI Logic
- Market RX
- McKinsey
- Motorola
- Maytas Infra Ltd
- Novell Software
- NXP Semiconductors
- Patni Computers
- Qualcomm
- Reflexis Systems
- Sabre
- Sandisk
- Schneider Electric
- Strand Lifesciences
- Symantec
- Tata Steel
- Tower Research Capital
- TVS Motor Company
- Verizon
- Visser & Smit Hanav BV
- Xilinx
- Adobe
- Amazon
- Ansys Fluent
- Atheros
- Bayer Crop Sciences
- BHEL
- Capital One
- Chronus
- Citi Group Global
- Cosmic Circuits
- Crompton Greaves
- Cypress
- Deloitte
- Engineers India Ltd
- Evalueserve
- General Electric
- Geometric Software
- Google
- Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd
- i2 Technologies
- IFC
- Intel
- Invensys
- ITC Limited
- JMN Investments
- Keppel FELS Off shore
- L & T
- Mahindra & Mahindra
- Mazagon Dock
- Microsoft
- MR
- Germany
- National Instruments
- NTPC Limited
- Oracle India
- PWC
- Ramco Systems
- Reliance Industries
- Safran Aerospace
- Sasken Communications
- Scope International
- Sumitomo Chemicals
- Tata Consultancy Services and many more.
IIT KGP facilitates eighteen residence halls accommodating its undergraduate and graduate students, as well as research scholars.
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur is in collaboration with a large number of institutes thatv act as academic partners. Some of them are:
- G S Sanyal School of Telecommunications
- Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law
- Ranbir and Chitra Gupta School of Infrastructure Design and Management
- Reliability Engineering Centre
- Rubber Technology Centre
- Rural Development Centre
- School of Water Resources
- Vinod Gupta School of Management