Quick Facts

  • IIIT, Hyderabad is a nonprofit Research University, founded in 1998, under the Public Private Partnership model, and is the first IIIT to be set up in India.
  • The mission of IIIT-H is to contribute to transforming industry and society, in India and the world over, by delivering world class research and education, and promoting innovation and human values.
  • IIIT-H, in the tenth year now, has been ranked top #7 overall, and top #3 on placement, among all technology schools in the country, by Dataquest-IDC's annual survey 2008. In 2007, the institute was ranked top #9 overall, and top #5 on placement.
  • IIIT-H’s placement 2009 was ranked Top 2, among all technology schools in India, by Mint-Cfore’s Best Engineering Colleges’ Survey 2009, with an average compensation of Rs.6.1 lac, despite the institute being the last in the country to open placement season.
  • Media rankings in 2008, when IIIT-H was in the tenth year, among all categories of engineering colleges in India.
    • Top 7 overall, and top 3 on placement – Dataquest-IDC
    • Top 9 overall, and top 2 on placement – Outlook-Synovate
  • Nine of every 10 IIIT-H alumni work in product research, architecture, design, or development, at top notch information technology companies, world wide.
  • IIIT-H is committed to the advancement of research and education in:
    • Language Technologies
    • Speech Technologies
    • Information Extraction
    • Computer Vision & Image Processing
    • Data Engineering
    • Information Security, Theory & Algorithms
    • Robotics
    • Signal Processing & Communications
    • Building Sciences
    • Agriculture & Rural Development
    • Software Engineering
    • IT for Education
    • Computational Natural Sciences
    • Bioinformatics
    • Exact Humanities
    • Earthquake Engineering
    • VLSI & Embedded Systems
    • Cognitive Sciences
    • Software Engineering
    • Computational Natural Sciences
    • Spatial Informatics
    • Compilers
    • Power Systems
    • Cognitive Sciences
  • All programs, undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral, are fully residential.
  • IIIT-H offers, even for the undergraduate students, research led curricula that encourage them to participate in the ongoing research projects. As a result, students get to do a large number of research projects, and thus bring to employers deep research orientation and innovative mindset.
  • Currently, six years after launching the postgraduate programs, IIIT-H has over 85 PhD and 360 MS by Research students pursuing research in various areas of computing and IT.
  • IIIT-H has the largest research groups in the country working in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Speech, and Computer Vision.
  • IIIT-H is organized as a cluster of research centers, and not as departments, unlike other Universities.
  • IIIT-H offers leading edge, research focused programs at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, in a range of specializations.
    • Computer Science & Engineering (UG & PG)
    • Electronics & Communications Engineering (UG)
    • VLSI & Embedded Systems (PG)
    • Computer Science & Information Security (PG)
    • Computer Aided Structural Engineering (PG)
    • Information Security (PG)
    • Computational Linguistics (PG)
    • Bio-informatics (PG)

    MS by Research and PhD programs are offered in each of the above.

 

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