IIT ROORKEE

importance by an act of parliament. The Institute campus grew around the once infamous Detention Camp of Hijli and sprawls over an area of 1400 acres of land gifted by the Government of West Bengal. The student population has increased from 224 in 1951 to 5000 in 2003, the faculty strength from 42 to 500. There are fifteen halls of residence for students, including two for girls. There are a composite stadium, a swimming pool, a student center with a gymnasium, an indoor stadium and six canteens catering foods of all regions of India, a large open air theater and a spacious air conditioned auditioned auditorium, a hospital and a shopping center. The library allows direct access for fourteen hours a day and offers all modern facilities.

The Institute provides instructions leading to degrees in various branches of engineering and technology, in architecture, and in the sciences. The students are admitted from all parts of India and from, neighboring and oversees countries regardless of their sex, race, creed, caste or class. The Institute is completely residential in character. It awards graduate, postgraduate and research degrees in various branches of engineering science and the humanities. It also provides short-term professional courses for executives and technologists from the industries and from Government departments. The Institute also runs a Quality Improvement Programme for the benefit of teachers of Engineering Colleges all over the country. The objective of the Institute is to foster in its students a spirit of free and objective enquiry, to install into the minds of young learners a sense of purpose and to help them to develop a balanced and integrated personality.

The postgraduate courses train for careers in research and development. The research programmes of the Institute cover a wide span from applied industrial problems to those of a fundamental nature. Special emphasis is laid on inter-disciplinary programmes.

The method of instruction aims at developing the student’s initiative and ability to deal with new situation with confidence and judgment. The programme of instruction is not simply burdened with formal lectures. There is an even load of industrial training and fieldwork and adequate provision for seminars, tutorials, and guided studies to promote and habit of independent thinking.

The examination system, based on the principle that all terminal scores should count towards the final assessment, is in line with the integrated content of the curriculum. It tests the student’s systematic progress and total ability rather than his chance achievements in a single examination.

(a) Tuition and other nonrefundable fee: Rs.7400/-

(b) Refundable caution money: Rs. 4000/-

* Tentative and subject to change

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