IIT Roorkee is among the foremost of institutes of national importance in higher technological education and in engineering, basic and applied research. Since its establishment, the Institute has played a vital role in providing the technical manpower and know-how to the country and in pursuit of research. The Institute ranks amongst the best technological institutions in the world and has contributed to all sectors of technological development. It has also been considered a trendsetter in the area of education and research in the field of science, technology, and engineering.
The Institute has completed 150th year of its existence in October 1996. On September 21, 2001, an Ordinance issued by the Government of India declared it as the nation’s seventh Indian Institute of Technology. The Ordinance is now converted into an Act by the Parliament to make IIT, Roorkee as an “Institution of National Importance”.
The Institute offers Bachelor’s Degree courses in 10 disciplines of Engineering and Architecture and Postgraduate’s Degree in 55 disciplines of Engineering, Applied Science, Architecture and planning. The Institute has facility for doctoral work in all Departments and Research Centres.
The Institute admits students to B.Tech. and B.Arch. courses through the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) conducted at various centres all over India.
History
The Roorkee College was established in 1847 AD as the First Engineering College in the British Empire. The College was renamed as The Thomason College of Civil Engineering in 1854. It was given the status of University by Act No. IX of 1948 of the United Province (Uttar Pradesh) in recognition of its performance and its potential and keeping in view the needs of post-independent India. Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, presented the Charter in November 1949 elevating the erstwhile college to the First Engineering University of Independent India.
Since its establishment, the University of Roorkee has played a vital role in providing the technical manpower and know-how to the country and in pursuit of research. The University ranked amongst the best technological institutions in the world and has contributed to all sectors of technological development. It has also been considered a trendsetter in the area of education and research in the field of science, technology, and engineering. The University entered 150th year of its existence in one or other form in October 1996.
On the 21st September 2001, the University was declared an institute of national importance, by passing a bill in the parliament, changing its status from University of Roorkee to Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.
Bachelor’s Degree courses are offered in 10 disciplines in Engineering and Architecture; 55 Postgraduate Degree courses are offered in Engineering, Applied Science and Architecture and planning. The Institute has a facility for doctoral work in all Departments and Research Centers.
Departments and centres
IIT Roorkee is one of the biggest technical institutions in the country having the largest number of academic units. It has 21 academic departments covering engineering, applied sciences, humanities & social sciences, and management programmes, 1 academic centre, 3 centres of excellence, 5 academic service centres and 3 supporting units.
Engineering and Applied Sciences
- Architecture and Planning
- Applied Science and Engineering
- Biotechnology
- Chemical Engineering
- Chemistry
- Civil Engineering
- Computer Science and Engineering
- Earthquake Engineering
- Earth Sciences
- Electrical Engineering
- Electronics and Communication Engineering
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Hydrology
- Management Studies
- Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
- Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
- Packaging Technology
- Paper Technology
- Polymer and Process Engineering
- Physics
- Water Resources Development and Management
Sciences
- Chemistry
- Mathematics
- Physics
Business
- Management Studies
Humanities
- Humanities and Social Sciences
Centers
- Academic Centres
- Alternate Hydro Energy Centre
Centre of Excellence
- Centre of Nanotechnology
- Centre for Transportation Systems (CTRANS)
- Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation & Management (CoEDMM)
Academic Service centers
- Mahatma Gandhi Central Library
- Center for Integrated Sciences
- Center for Research & Innovation
- Centre of Nanotechnology
- Centre for Transportation Systems
- Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation & Management
- Continuing Education Centre
- Information Super Highway Centre
- Institute Computer Centre
- Institute Instrumentation Centre
- Intellectual Property Rights Cell
- Quality Improvement Programme
- TIFAC Core
Supporting Service Centres
- Educational Technology Cell
- Institute Hospital
Academics at IIT Roorkee
Undergraduate Programmes
The Institute offers the following eleven undergraduate programmes leading to B.Arch and B.Tech. degrees, which are of 5 and 4 years duration, respectively.
Integrated Dual Degree
The Institute offers the Integrated Dual Degree programmes (5 years duration). Admissions are offered through the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) and students are awarded both B.Tech. and M.Tech./ M.B.A. degrees after completion of 5 years.
Postgraduate (PG) Programmes
The predecessor of the IIT Roorkee, the University of Roorkee, pioneered postgraduate programmes in engineering and technology, way back in 1955.
Admission to PG programmes is offered on the basis of GATE score and/or on the basis of the written test and interview. Non-Resident Indians ( NRI ) and foreign nationals are also admitted to PG programmes. Sponsored candidates, including those through Quality Improvement Programme (QIP), form another channel for admission to these programmes. IIT Roorkee is the only institution in the country which has special PG programmes in Earthquake Engineering, Water Resources Development & Management, Hydrology, Welding Engineering, Alternate Hydro Energy Systems and Pulp & Paper Engineering.
Admission
Students are admitted to undergraduate courses through an All-India competition known as Joint Entrance Examination Advanced (JEE Advanced) conducted by all the seven IIT’s along with IIT BHU and IIT(ISM) Dhanbad, at various centres across the country in which more than 1,50,000 candidates compete for around 4,500 seats.
The admissions to Institute of Technology–Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, and Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad are also done through JEE for about 850 seats. From the year 2006, JEE pattern underwent a change, instead of two level selection procedure, there will be only one level of selection wherein just three separate papers of Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics of 2-hour duration each take place. The paper would be objective type in nature designed to test the comprehension and analytical ability of the candidates.
This Institute offers 11 courses leading to four-year Bachelor of Technology and one five year B.Arch. course/Five-year dual-degree programmes are also available here in few disciplines wherein both B.Tech. and M.Tech./M.B.A. degrees are awarded after successful completion of the programme. Further the Institute offers 5 year integrated M.Tech./M.Sc. programmes for which the students are admitted through JEE.
However no admission is available to any Non resident Indian at undergraduate level at the institute. “As per the decision of IIT council the admission to the Undergraduate programme through Direct Admission of Students Abroad (DASA) scheme is abolished”
Postgraduate admissions
Students admitted to the graduate programs of study at IIT Roorkee go through a process of selection prior to their admissions. The process of selection is administered at the national (All India) level or at the Institute depending on the program of study.
GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering), The Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering is an All – India Examination conducted by the seven IITs and IISc Bangalore, on behalf of the National Coordinating Board – GATE, Department of Education, Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), Government of India. For more info follow link GATE
JAM (Joint Admission Test to M.Sc) for admission to M.Sc programmes at the IITs. From year 2005 admissions to MCA programme at IIT Roorkee are also made through JAM which were previously through AIMCET. More info at JAM website
This Institute offer courses leading to two-year Master of Science degrees in a number of disciplines. In addition, post-graduate programmes leading to M.Tech., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees are also offered.
Research
The research that is associated with the Institute can be broadly classified into two categories:
Departmental Research and Research at Academic Centers.
Every department has faculty and students involved extensively in research activities. Undergraduate education is greatly benefited by the environment of postgraduate programmes, while both the curricula derives strength in a research environment created by doctoral and postdoctoral programmes.
Not only the departments of the Institute, the various academic centers are also involved in research activities, in order to contribute and benefit from the advances in knowledge frontiers, which will help generate state-of-the-art technologies responding to the need of the country.
Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy
Sponsored Research (SR) and Industrial Consultancy (IC) are two important modes through which the faculty supports the development of knowledge and technology. Indian Institute of Technology recognizes Sponsored Research (SR) and Industrial Consultancy (IC) as the essential attributes of teaching and research. A full-fledged office operating under Dean (SRIC) provides administrative and accounting support to the faculty undertaking sponsored research and consultancy work.
Placements
Placement Process
PHASE-I
The invitation, containing the relevant information and the job annexure, is sent to the companies/organisations through email/post.
Companies/organisation fills the annexure and sends it back to the Training and Placement Office, IIT Roorkee via email/post. It is highly desirable that the job annexure is completed in all respects as it forms the primary basis of communicating the job-profile being offered to the candidates.
The details of the annexure are made available to the students on Placement Online, IIT Roorkee
Suitable dates for Pre-Placement Talk (PPT from here on) are decided after discussions between the company and the Training and Placement Office.
After confirmation from the company, students are notified for the PPT date.
The company visits IITR campus and conducts its PPT.
The company may also, if interested, conduct selections for summer internships of the pre final year students on the same day as it’s a general procedure followed by companies.
PHASE-II
The Training and Placement Office allots a date to the company as per the ranking by the students. The company is ranked on the basis of following parameters:
- Job profile and growth prospects.
- The package being offered by the company.
- Past record of recruitment at IIT Roorkee.
- Feedback from the students regarding the company.
The company can confirm or negotiate the dates with the placement Office.
Interested students sign their willingness by registering for the company online.
Resumes of the interested students (if required) are made available to the companies for the purpose of short listing.
The list of short listed students is mailed to the Training and Placement Office prior to the campus selection date.
PHASE-III
Companies visit the campus on the given date and conduct the written technical/aptitude test, group discussion/personal interview as a part of their selection procedure.
Please note that the facility of video conferencing at the campus can be availed for the purpose of interviewing candidates in case the company is unable to visit the campus.
The company/organization is required to furnish the final list of selected students as soon as possible after the final completion of the procedure. The selected students may or may not be allowed to sit in further job interviews as per the placement policy of the Institute.
Recruitment Details
IIT Roorkee has seen the best jobs offered to its students. The highest package offered for a domestic location was 32 LPA & the averages stood at 10 LPA. Overall, the top recruiters in terms of the highest package offered were Google, Oracle & Microsoft. By the 9th day of phase 1, over 600 job offers had been made which included 7 offers outside India. Here are the top recruiters who offered a job in this profile. Some of these companies hire in different profiles. For example Oracle hires in 3 profiles – Finance, SDE & Analyst.
- Affine Analytics Pvt. Ltd.
- Barclays Capital
- Boston Analytics
- Capital One Services India
- Citicorp Services India Limited
- Construction Chemical and Energy
- D.E. Shaw & Co.
- Deloitte Consulting India
- Evalueserve
- EXL Services Pvt. Ltd.
- Frost and Sullivan
- Futures First Info Services
- Global Analytics India
- Goldman Sachs
- i3 Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
- ICICI Bank
- Indus Insights
- Morgan Stanley Advantage Services Pvt. Ltd.
- Mu Sigma Business Solutions
- Oracle
- RBS Business Services
- ZS Associates India Pvt. Ltd.
Construction-Sector
These are the best offerings to the engineering students who want to go in the field of construction.
- ASC Infratech
- CBRE South Asia
- Elegant Marine Services
- Era Infra Engineering Limited
- Essar Group India Pvt. Ltd.
- Kellogg Brown & Root
- National Highways Authority of India
- NKG Infrastructure
- Raheja Developers
- Redbee Infrastructure
- Risk Management solutions
- Shapoorji Pallonji Engineering & Construction Pvt. Ltd.
- Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.
- SMEC India Pvt. Ltd.
- Thornton Tomasetti
- Marvel Landmark Pvt. Ltd
Electronics/Telecommunication-Sector
These companies offer jobs in core electronics/electrical engineering. These are secure jobs and with the telecommunication sector on its ever high today, these jobs shows prospects of growth as well.
- Analog Devices India
- Bharti Airtel
- Broadcom India
- Cadence Design Systems
- Calypto Design Systems
- Eaton Technologies
- Ericsson India Global Services
- Finisar Malaysia
- General Electric
- Freescale Semiconductors
- L&T Power
- Nvidia
- Qualcomm India
- Samsung
- Texas Instruments India
- Usha International
Energy-Sector
These are the companies offering jobs in paper, metals, oil & natural gas sectors. While the upstream oil industries offer one of the highest paying jobs, in the recent times it isn’t as affluent owing largely to the recent slump in oil prices.
- Advance Group
- Asian Oilfield Services
- Cairn India
- Chambal Fertilisers
- Emami Paper Mills
- HPCL
- IOCL
- J.K. Paper
- Mecon ltd. (mining & metals)
- MiniMill Technologies Services International
- ONGC
- RIL
- Schlumberger Asia Services
- Shell Technology Centre
- Sterling Energy
- Trident Limited
- Wockhardt Biotech Park
E.Com & other Startups
Over the recent years, these have become one of themost ‘invested-in’ sectors. This makes them offer a good packages to their employees. Here’s the list.
- CarDekho.com
- Commonfloor.com
- Flipkart India Pvt. Ltd.
- Girnar Software Pvt. Ltd.
- Infibeam.com
- Ixigo.com
- Lenskart.com
- MySmartPrice
- Printvenue.oom
- Shopclues.com
- Snapdeal.com
- Unbxd
Manufacturing-Sector
These are the industries spanning from power manufacturing to aircraft manufacturing industries. It is mostly the Electrical, Mechanical, Chemicl, Civil engineering students who are offered jobs by these companies.
- Airbus Engineering Centre India
- Anand Automotive Ltd.
- Caterpillar India Private Ltd.
- Coal India Ltd.
- Continental India Ltd.
- Eureka Forbes Ltd.
- General Motors
- Greaves Cotton Ltd.
- Hero Motocorp Ltd.
- Isgec Heavy Engineering Ltd.
- ITC Ltd.
- Jindal Steel & Power Ltd.
- JK Tyre
- L&T Ltd.
- Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.
- Michelin Tyres Pvt Ltd.
- Nestle India Ltd.
- NTPC Ltd.
- Relaxo Footwear Ltd.
- Rio Tinto
- Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions
- SRF Ltd.
- Tata Motors Ltd.
- Tata Steel
- Thermax India Ltd.
- Trident Group
- VE Commercial Vehicles Ltd
Software
These are the jobs offered to the CSE students or to the students who prove themselves proficient in programming/coding. The highest packages are generally offered from one of these companies.
- Accolite Software
- Adobe Systems India Pvt. Ltd.
- Amazon Development Center
- Aspire Systems India Pvt. Ltd.
- Choice Solutions Limited
- Cisco Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd.
- Clues Network Pvt. Ltd.
- Directi
- Epic
- Expicient Software Pvt. Ltd.
- Facebook Inc.
- Google India Pvt. Ltd.
- Groupon India Pvt. Ltd.
- HCL Technologies Ltd.
- Hewlett Packard
- IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
- Infosys Limited
- InMobi
- KLA Tencor
- Microsoft Corporation
- Monotype
- Nagarro Software
- NetApp
- Oracle
- PayPal/ eBay India Pvt. Ltd.
- Symantec Software India Pvt. Ltd.
- Transbit Global Technologies
- Wipro Technologies
- Wooqer
- Yahoo
- Zillious Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Campus
IIT Roorkee is situated at the foothill of the Himalayas, in Hardwar district, within the state of Uttarakhand. Roorkee is a quiet town of moderate size in the district of Haridwar (Uttarakhand), is located on the banks of the upper Ganga Canal, which takes off at Haridwar, 30km away. It is the gateway to the pilgrim centres of Hardwar, Rishikesh, Badrinath and Kedarnath, and tourist attractions of Dehradun and Mussoorie. Roorkee is well connected to Delhi by rail and road. It is situated on National Highways 58 and 73 and is on Amritsar-Howrah main rail route.
The Institute has two campuses. The main campus is at Roorkee in Uttarakhand and the other one is 50 km away at Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh. The campus at Roorkee is spread over 356 acres of landscaped lush greenery. Nestled within this are several heritage buildings, modern academic departments, twelve hostels, messes, hospital, school, banks, community centres, indoor and outdoor sports facilities which include three sports stadiums, a modern swimming pool, yoga bhawan, dairy, students’ clubs and several activity centres and other buildings. The Department of Paper Technology is located in a 25-acre campus at Saharanpur. A 10-acre campus is being developed as an extension centre at Greater Noida.
Student Activities
Students conduct three fests every year, Cognizance (Technical festival), Thomso (Cultural festival) and Sangram (Sports festival).
Student groups on the campus include STIFKI (Student Teacher Interaction Forum for Knowledge and Innovation), IMG (Information Management Group), SDSLabs (Software Development Section Labs), GIL (Group for Interactive Learning), EDC (Entrepreneurship Development Cell), HEC (Himalayan Explorers’ Club), Literary Society (Active involvement in debating and quizzing),a local chapter of ShARE, Spic Macay in addition to student chapters of technical societies such as AAPG, SEG, SPG, ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers, IIT Roorkee Student Section), SAE, IEEE, IIChE (Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers), etc.The Cultural Society (dramatics, music, choreography, cinematic, literary, IIT Heartbeat(Official inter-IIT magazine), audio, lights, Programme management, Kshitij,Geek Gazette(technical magazine of IIT Roorkee) Watch Out (the Official News Magazine of IIT Roorkee) takes all initiative related to cultural activities in the institute. It organizes music concerts, dance shows, dramas and quiz competitions. National Service Scheme at IIT Roorkee is headed by Dean of Students Welfare, IIT Roorkee. As of 2014, NSS, IIT Roorkee has over 700 active members from different disciplines, participating and organizing various community and social service activities.
IIT Roorkee has a hobbies club, one of its kind among IITs. It aims at facilitating activities like photography, philately, astronomy, fine arts, gardening, web design, etc. It is headed by a chief advisor, who is supported by two deputy chief advisors and a council secretary. It hosts SRISHTI, an annual techno-hobby exhibition.
IIT Roorkee Motorsports is the official Formula Student team of IIT Roorkee. It was founded in August 2010. The team designed and developed a formula style race car and represented India in the international competition Formula SAE Australasia in December 2011, held in Melbourne, Australia. This was the first Indian team to finish the endurance event of the competition and also finished first in fuel efficiency. The team also enjoys the rare feat of displaying their student-made race car at Auto Expo 2012. After a successful international debut, the team has plans to develop a series hybrid vehicle and participate in the Formula Student UK 2013.
Student’s Initiative for Integrated Rural Development (SIIRD) is an attempt to develop a “Sustainable Development Model” in a village named CHHARBA. This model of rural development is one of its kind. Its uniqueness lies in the voluntary use of student force for larger good of the society by integrating the efforts of industry-academia-government-society. Started in 2006, the initiatives of SIIRD has received support and appreciation from Government, Industry and Academia. The results are evident from the fact that under the Rashtriya Gaurav Puraskar scheme run by the Central Government, Chharba has been awarded best Gram Sabha of Dehradun district out of 403 Gram Sabhas. It is noteworthy that in the evaluation, only Chharba got marks under health column due to the health camps organized by SIIRD, IIT Roorkee. On the occasion of Panchayati Raj Day, Chharba was felicitated with Panchayat Sashaktikaran Puraskar for their exemplary work under the Panchayat Empowerment Accountability Incentive Scheme (PEAIS). The award was provided on 24 April 2012 by Ministry of Panchayati Raj. The approach and work of SIIRD has been appreciated at international level as evidenced by its winning the fourth spot worldwide in HCT-Wharton Tournament in Abu Dhabi. The students have presented the concept of SIIRD in conferences organized by University of Cambridge, University of British Columbia, Essex Business School, and Humboldt-University of Berlin. The concept has been published in: The International Journal of Social Sustainability in Economic, Social and Cultural Context, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology Journal and Global Science and Technology Forum: Annual International Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IE) Singapore, 2011 Proceedings.
The Institute hosted the inception of SPIC MACAY Winter Convention. A cultural and classical program in which students from school and colleges from all over the country collaborated which was held from 13 to 16 December 2015. Aman Jakar was the overall convenor of the event.
Alumni
The IIT Roorkee has produced many alumni who played important roles in the technological development of India and made significant impact on corporate world. According to IIT Roorkee’s website, ten alumni have won Padma awards and 25 have been Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology awardees.
The IIT Roorkee Alumni Association was established and registered in 1940 as a society under the Society Registration Act. The association has 31 local chapters in the country and three chapters abroad. The association encourages the alumni to take interest in the activities of the alma mater and promotes relations between alumni.
Every year the association hosts Diamond, Golden and Silver jubilee functions, where alumni graduating 60, 50 and 25 years earlier are invited. Since 2005 the association has also been awarding a Distinguished Alumni Award to alumni who have made immense contributions in the fields of Academic/Research, Social Sciences, Engineering & Public Administration, Corporate Development/Entrepreneurship and Service to the Society.
The Student Alumni Mentorship Programme has been initiated by the association to help young students in achieving their career aspirations. The alumni visit the institute to interact with the students and staff and share their suggestions.
Interesting Facts
IIT Roorkee, the 160-year-old institute is one of the finest management colleges in India. The institute has many interesting things on the campus that will surely mesmerize you.
- Located in the center of the institute this majestic building represents the soul of IIT Roorkee and stands as a guardian watching over the students of the college.
- The institute is also home for the differently abled children. Every year during the deaf and dumb awareness week, students of IIT Roorkee go to the school to train the children for their annual day.
- The Thomso Cultural Fest: It is one of the largest cultural fests in all of the Asia. It provides a platform for students from various colleges to participate in events ranging from dancing, singing, theatre, fashion and much more.
- Mahatma Gandhi Central Library: This fully air conditioned library contains more than 3, 50,000 books and 15000+ journal. It also provides access to e-journal.
- Business Conclave @DoMS IITR: AVENIR, the annual business conclave of DoMS, IIT Roorkee are graced by a large number of eminent speakers each year.
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