IIT MADRAS

IIT Madras is the 3rd highest RANKING ENGINEERING INSTITUTE IN INDIA

Indian Institute of Technology Madras, is one among the foremost institutes of national importance in higher technological education, basic and applied research. In 1956, the German Government offered technical assistance for establishing an institute of higher education in engineering in India. The first Indo-German agreement in Bonn, West Germany for the establishment of the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras was signed in 1959.
The Institute was formally inaugurated in 1959 by Prof. Humayun Kabir, Union Minister for Scientific Research and Cultural Affairs. The IIT system has seven Institutes of Technology located at Kharagpur (estb. 1951), Mumbai (estb. 1958), Chennai (estb. 1959), Kanpur (estb. 1959), Delhi (estb. 1961), Guwahati (estb. 1994) and Roorkee (estb. 1847, joined IITs in 2001).
IIT Madras is a residential institute with nearly 460 faculty, 4500 students and 1250 administrative & supporting staff and is a self-contained campus located in a beautiful wooded land of about 250 hectares. It has established itself as a premier centre for teaching, research and industrial consultancy in the country.
The Institute has fifteen academic departments and a few advanced research centres in various disciplines of engineering and pure sciences, with nearly 100 laboratories organised in a unique pattern of functioning. A faculty of international repute, a brilliant student community, excellent technical & supporting staff and an effective administration have all contributed to the pre-eminent status of IIT Madras. The campus is located in the city of Chennai, previously known as Madras. Chennai is the state capital of Tamilnadu, a southern state in India.

IIT Chennai Admissions

Students who wish to apply for the B.Tech courses offered by the institute have to sit for the Joint Entrance Examination which is the common admission test for all IITs in the country. The joint entrance test is conducted in the month of April every year.
Those who wish to seek admission for the postgraduate programs in engineering, technology, architecture and pharmacy have to sit for the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE). GATE is an all India level test.
Students who wish to apply for the management programs in IIT Chennai have to sit for the Joint Management Entrance Test (JMET). JMET is the common exam that is conducted for admission to the management courses of all IIT's and IISc.
But students also have to apply separately to each institute for admission. For admission to various MSC postgraduate programs and and 3-year post B.Sc programs, prospective students need to sit for the Joint Admission Test (JAM).

IIT Chennai Programs and Courses
IIT Chennai offers a number of programs and courses in the field of engineering and pure science. To support its intense study schedule and research based teachings, IIT Chennai offers its students around a 100 hundred laboratories and many state of the art research centers. The teaching faculty of IIT Chennai includes the names of internationally reputed faculty as well as trained technical and support staff members. Top it with an extremely effective administration staff and you have one of the most smoothly and professionally run institutes in the country.

IIT Chennai offers various types of courses and programs such as B. Tech, engineering postgraduate programs, 3 year post B.Sc programs as well as M.Sc programs in physics, chemistry and mathematics and also MBA programs.
IIT Chennai offers programs and courses in the following fields:

Mathematics
Mechanical Engineering
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Ocean Engineering
Physics
Biotechnology
Management Studies
Aerospace Engineering
Applied Mechanics
Civil Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering
Chemistry
Electrical Engineering
Humanities and Social Sciences

How to Contact IIT Chennai
Indian Institute of Technology Madras,
I.I.T Post Office
Chennai-600 036
India.

Email id: dracad@iitm.ac.in