Located at Powai, on the outskirts of Mumbai, the IIT campus extends over 500 acres of green wooded land with Powai and Vihar Lakes on either side. The campus is conveniently connected to the city centre by buses and local trains.

IIT Bombay offers a large number of undergraduate and post-graduate programmes in engineering and sciences. The teaching programmes follow a semester system and are characterized by their flexibility and informality. An academic year (July-April) consists of two semesters, each of approximately 16 weeks duration. The departments, schools, centres and interdisciplinary groups constitute the academic fabric of the Institute. About 1800 undergraduate and 2900 postgraduate students, including foreign students are currently on the rolls. The faculty strength is about 400 and most of the faculty stays on the campus.

All the departments of the Institute have well-equipped research laboratories and related infrastructure. The Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India has sponsored a Sophisticated Analytical Instrumentation Facility (SAIF) at IIT Bombay to provide a wide range of modern analytical instruments for use in advanced research, such as Electron microscopy, X-ray Fluorescence, NMR etc. There are also a number of central facilities, such as the Computer Centre, Workshops, as well as one of the finest technical libraries in the country, which houses over 3 lakh books and a large collection of periodicals and reference material. The library subscribes to over 1500 current journals in Science and Engineering and has access to all major journals through Sci-Finder, Chemical Abstract etc. The Computer Centre provides high-end computing facilities to the Institute. It has several high performance computing machines, which include a 16 CPU Digital machine and severl SUN servers.

The close proximity of IIT Bombay to BARC and TIFR as well as major industrial establishments, offers excellent opportunities for interaction and collaborative research. A large number of projects at IIT Bombay are sponsored by organizations, such as DST, DAE, DBT, ISRO and CSIR as well as by industries. The Institute also actively collaborates with several organizations of other countries on a bilateral basis.

IIT Bombay is fully residential and has 13 hostels for students. Each hostel is an independent entity with its own mess facilities and recreational areas, etc. Each student hostel has a computer room with several PC’s, which can directly access any server in the Institute through the Institute network. There are excellent facilities for sports, which include a swimming pool, tennis, badminton and squash courts and vast playgrounds for field games. Wildlife camps and trekking are popular off campus activities. The facilities for sports are matched by the cultural activities on the campus: there are film clubs, classical music societies, debating and drama clubs and a hobbies club. There are also several associations, which organize social and cultural functions. The IIT Bombay campus offers a full and rich life characterized by the strong faculty-student interaction on the residential campus.

It may be noted that students are not permitted to operate and maintain motorized vehicles of any type in the campus, except on medical grounds.

Fees, Deposits and Hostel Rent*

SC/ST category students are fully exempted from paying tuition fee (Rs 1500/-). Hence the total fees to be paid by them at the time of admission are Rs. 8,801/- (with hostel) and 4,451/- (without hostel).

* Subject to change

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