DRIVING FORCE

IIT DELHI CONTINUES TO CULTIVATE A STRONG CULTURE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP, START-UPS AND INCUBATORS BESIDES A FOCUS ON RESEARCH AND INNOVATION

- SHELLY ANAND

Among the top 50 institutions in the world for engineering and technology education as per the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi has kept its game razor-sharp by finding the perfect sync between industry-oriented innovation and pure research fundamentals. Set up in 1961, IIT Delhi has always believed in inculcating a strong entrepreneurial mindset in its students and training them to think out of the box. This is what has enabled the institute to become an education brand known around the world, incubating the best minds and putting them out in time to harvest all technology-led revolutions of recent decades.

It offers undergraduate, postgraduate, research and continuing education professional programmes across subjects—its Engineering courses are the most iconic, of course, but Physical Sciences is right up there, and even the Management, Humanities and Social Sciences streams are marked by a high calibre. Over 48,000 graduates have come out of the institute since its inception and the number of students who have graduated with a BTech degree is over 15,738. Five of its programmes—Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Chemical Engineering and Civil Engineering—figure among the top 100 courses globally in the engineering and technology area.

With departments such as Applied Mechanics, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Energy Science and Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Textile and Fibre Engineering to name a few, the students of IIT Delhi breathe and live future technologies, fundamental research and innovation day in and day out. Currently, the institute has 12,045 students, 1,798 courses and 26 specialisations.