Tibits about IIT-Guwahati

IIT-Guwahati was established in 1994 and the academic programme commenced in 1995.

IIT-Guwahati campus is situated on the northern banks of the mighty river Brahmaputra and the sprawling 705 acres campus also attracts many visitors because of its scenic beauty. IIT-Guwahati campus is unarguably one of the most beautiful campuses in India.

It has a total of 18 departments and centres. There are 1,300 undergraduate and 500 postgraduate student in IIT-Guwahati with a total of 152 faculty members.

Currently IIT-Guwahati houses the Departments of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Electronics & Communication Engineering (ECE), Biotechnology (BT), Mechanical Engineering (ME), Chemical Engineering (CHE), Civil Engineering (CE), Mathematics (MA), Physics (PH) and Chemistry (CH). IIT-G is also currently home to a very unique Department of Design (DoD) and 6 Centers of Research.

IIT-Guwahati is a fully residential campus. All the students live in hostels located in the campus. All these hostels have single seater spacious rooms and have all the amenities like food mess, canteen, lounges, campus wide lan with internet access etc. The hostels are named after various rivers and tributaries of north-east India.

Every year, two major national level festivals are organised by the students of IIT-Guwahati. The science and technological festival, Techniche, is held in the odd semester (beginning of September) while the cultural festival, Alcheringa, is held in the even semester (end of January).

Alcheringa is the biggest cultural festival of its kind in the entire north-east India and draws huge amounts of crowd from all over India.

Apart from the two national level festivals, the students have an intra-IIT cultural festival named Manthan, held every year during October.

There is also an annual sports meet organised where many colleges from the north-east India participate.