UGC

Indian Institute of Technology - Goa

Established: 2016

Public, Government, Autonomous
Ponda, India

About College

Indian Institute of Technology Goa is also known as IIT Goa, an autonomous institute which became functional in the year 2016. The institute is approved by UGC and MHRD. The university started in the temporary campus housed at Goa Engineering College. The IIT Goa is spread all over an area of 320-acre land. The institute has a unique approach to offer higher studies and aims to offer knowledge in various streams. IIT Goa offers B.Tech as an undergraduate programme.

Indian Institute of Technology, Goa, was established in 2016 under the Chairmanship of R. Subrahmanyam and Director Prof. B.K. Mishra. It is an Autonomous premier technology and engineering institute established in Goa. The year 2020 marks the first batch of graduates will graduate this year, as it has been four years since their establishment and opening in Goa. With the approval of the Union Cabinets ex-post-facto, IIT Goa came into its existence.

The institution began its first batch and started functioning in July 2016 in a temporary campus at the Goa Engineering College (GEC) campus at Farmagudi in Goa. This institution offers degree courses in BTech, MTech, and Ph.D in various core and non-core branches of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics and Computing.

The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) acted as a mentor for IIT Goa for three years. With IIT Bombay having been designated to supervise and monitor the settings of IIT Goa, and a monitoring cell had been set up in IIT Bombay under as per HRD Minister’s command. Because this institute is a part of IITs in the country, it is expected to do well in the future with expert professors and more facilities and courses which will be added in the institute shortly.

IIT Goa has become known in relevant spheres even though it started just four years ago. The institution offers an 8:1 student to teacher ratio, which cannot be met anywhere else. It is an ideal college for aspirants who are seeking an excellent engineering college from across the country and especially for those residing in Goa. This institution provides all levels of courses starting with undergraduate, postgraduate and Ph.D. degrees courses for students who wish to pursue their higher studies in engineering and technology.