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IIT-Achievements
World-class institutes A range of views exist regarding the relative standing if the IITs in India and globally.
Globally
At the 50th anniversary celebrations of the founding of IIT at the Flint Center, Cupertino, CA, Bill Gates described IIT as 'world class institute,' 'incredible institution,' and 'a unique institution,'
o In 2005, a ranking by The Times Higher Education Supplement ranked the IITs as globally third-best for engineering and information technology following the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of California, Berkeley. In 2004, Stanford University had the 3rd spot.
o In April 2005, the United States Congress passed a resolution praising the efforts of IIT alumni, as well as the rest of the Indian-American community, for their significant contribution to the American society.
In India
o "Put Harvard, MIT and Princeton together and you get to an idea of the status of IITs in India." - Lesley Stahl of CBS on 60 Minutes.
o NR Narayana Murthy, founder of Infosys: "My son wanted to do computer science. But to be in the IITs he had to be among the top 200 in the country. So he chose Cornell."
"I do know cases where students who couldn't get into computer science at IITs, they have gotten scholarship at MIT, at Princeton, at Caltech."
o Vinod Khosla, venture capitalist: "When I finished IIT Delhi and went to CMU for my master's, I thought I was cruising all the way through Carnegie Mellon because it was so easy, relative to the education I had gotten at IIT Delhi." (Vinod received a Masters in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon)
World-class institutes A range of views exist regarding the relative standing if the IITs in India and globally.
Globally
At the 50th anniversary celebrations of the founding of IIT at the Flint Center, Cupertino, CA, Bill Gates described IIT as 'world class institute,' 'incredible institution,' and 'a unique institution,'
o In 2005, a ranking by The Times Higher Education Supplement ranked the IITs as globally third-best for engineering and information technology following the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of California, Berkeley. In 2004, Stanford University had the 3rd spot.
o In April 2005, the United States Congress passed a resolution praising the efforts of IIT alumni, as well as the rest of the Indian-American community, for their significant contribution to the American society.
In India
o "Put Harvard, MIT and Princeton together and you get to an idea of the status of IITs in India." - Lesley Stahl of CBS on 60 Minutes.
o NR Narayana Murthy, founder of Infosys: "My son wanted to do computer science. But to be in the IITs he had to be among the top 200 in the country. So he chose Cornell."
"I do know cases where students who couldn't get into computer science at IITs, they have gotten scholarship at MIT, at Princeton, at Caltech."
o Vinod Khosla, venture capitalist: "When I finished IIT Delhi and went to CMU for my master's, I thought I was cruising all the way through Carnegie Mellon because it was so easy, relative to the education I had gotten at IIT Delhi." (Vinod received a Masters in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon)
The Indian Institutes of Technology need no introduction either in India or abroad, for their alumni have already made their presence felt everywhere. The Institutes were set up by the Government of India as 'Institutions of National Importance' and almost all reputed international academic benchmarks have given them high rating. Sakshi Arora takes you through the corridors of IITs.
