IIT Roorkee - Indian Institute of Technology ,

IIT Roorkee Highlights 2022

IIT Roorkee is ranked one by NIRF 2021 for Architecture. IIT Roorkee is accredited by NAAC and is approved by AICTE and UGC. Established in 1847, IIT Roorkee is the seventh IIT recognised as an Institution of National Importance. It is a public-technical research university located in Uttarakhand and was formerly known as the University of Roorkee and Thomason College of Civil Engineering. It is the oldest technical institution in Asia that was given university status in 1949. The university offers 14 UG, 24 PG, and various other PhD courses to the students through its one school, three academic centres, seven academic service centres, four supporting units, and 23 departments across the fields of Engineering, Science, Architecture, Management, and Social Sciences. The major highlights of IIT Roorkee are tabulated below:

IIT Roorkee Courses and Fee 2022

The mode of IIT Roorkee admission 2022 is online. Candidates willing to seek admission to any of IIT Roorkee's courses must appear for the respective entrance exam and qualify for IIT Roorkee cut-off and PI rounds. IIT Roorkee admission to various courses is entrance-based. The candidates are selected through national-level tests conducted by various authorities. The selection of candidates for IIT Roorkee’s BTech programme is based on JoSAA Counselling. At the UG level, IIT Roorkee offers four-year BTech, five-year BArch, BSc-MSc, BTech-MTech, and BS-MS integrated courses. At the PG level, IIT Roorkee provides two-year MSc, MTech, MArch, MDes, and MBA courses. The institute also offers a one-year PG diploma and three-year PhD courses to the students. IIT Roorkee has started two online certificate programmes in Data Science, Machine Learning & AI.

MSc is offered in six specialisations, and BTech in ten specialisations, Below mentioned are some of the courses offered by IIT Roorkee and their respective eligibility and fee:

Note: Total fee is calculated on the basis of the annual/ semester fee available for the previous year 2021, hence is indicative. The above fee includes refundable deposits and is for General category students.

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IIT Roorkee Application Process 2022

For seeking admission to the courses offered at IIT Roorkee, as a first step, candidates are required to visit the official website of respective national-level entrance exam conducting bodies and fill out the online application form. For admission to PhD courses candidates must fill out the application form and pay the application fee per department (non-refundable) of INR 200 for General / Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) / OBC category and INR 100 for SC / ST / PD category candidates. Follow the below application process steps:

Step 1: Visit the official website of IIT Roorkee (www.iitr.ac.in) and go to the admission tab.

Step 2: Click on apply.

Step 3: Register as a new user and fill out the registration form with all the details.

Step 4: Further the application form with signatures.

Step 5: Pay the course application fee in online mode.

Step 6: Submit the application form.

IIT Roorkee Rankings 2021

IIT Roorkee has consistently maintained its position in the list of top 10 institutes in the 0verall category of NIRF. Apart from this, it has also been ranked 387 in the QS World University Rankings 2021. Being an elite Engineering institute, it has been consistently ranked by top-ranking bodies. A few recent year rankings received by IIT Roorkee are tabulated below:

IIT Roorkee Partnerships and Collaborations 

IIT Roorkee's contribution towards the international community in Science and Technology includes the courses and training programmes run for developing countries. Every year students from more than 50 countries join IIT Roorkee for full-time or short-term training courses. Research organisations in India have signed an MoU with IIT Roorkee including the Indian Institute of Petroleum Dehradun, Department of Atomic Engineering Mumbai, Intel Technology India Private Limited, Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences Nainital, and among others. A few more MoUs signed by IIT Roorkee in recent years are mentioned below:

Apart from this, IIT Roorkee has also partnered with a few firms to ensure environmental development and initiate collaborative learning. A few notable collaborations of IIT Roorkee are given below:

• IIT Roorkee, IISC Bangalore, and C-DAC have collaborated to launch India's first Quantum Computer Simulator (QSim) Toolkit to address the common challenge of advancing the Quantum Computing research frontiers in India
• Recently, IIT Roorkee has inked an MoU with SAIL-Bokaro Steel Plant through virtual means to identify and pursue joint research projects in the areas of coke and sinter production, raw material handling and processing, iron, and steel production and troubleshoot technical problems and digital transformation relevant to SAIL-BSL
• Imarticus Learning, in collaboration with IIT Roorkee, has recently launched a professional certificate programme in Supply Chain Management and Analytics
• WileyNXT in collaboration with IIT Roorkee is set to launch its PG certification in Cloud Computing and DevOps for the students who are wishing to advance their careers in Cloud Computing

IIT Roorkee Departments

IIT Roorkee has one school, three academic centres, seven academic service centres, and four supporting units. It has 23 academic departments covering various streams namely architecture and planning, engineering, humanities & social sciences, and management programmes, Mentioned below are the IIT Roorkee departments:

IIT Roorkee Placements 2021-22: Highlights

The key IIT Roorkee placements 2021-22 highlights are presented in the below-mentioned table:

IIT Roorkee Interim Placements Brochure 2020 - 2022

IIT Roorkee Scholarships 

IIT Roorkee provides financial assistance to students by offering them scholarship schemes like Inspire She Scheme and various other schemes. Economically weaker students can avail of the tuition fee waiver benefit. Students having a strong academic background can also benefit from the IIT Roorkee scholarships. Check the list of IIT Roorkee scholarships mentioned below:

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IIT Roorkee Results

IIT Roorkee conducts semester exams twice a year and the results are out within one to two months of the exam. IIT Roorkee results are announced on the official website. Candidates can follow the steps given below to check IIT Roorkee results:

Step 1: Visit the result website of IIT Roorkee, iitr.ac.in/admissions/pages/Institute_Results.html.

Step 2: Select the type of result.

Step 3: Click on the result tab.

Step 4: The provisional mark sheet will open on the screen.

Step 5: Save the result for future reference.

IIT Roorkee Infrastructure

The Institute has over three campuses namely a 365-acre campus at Roorkee, a 25-acre campus at Saharanpur, and a 10-acre campus of Greater Noida Extension Centre at Greater Noida. IIT Roorkee has 8,000+ students, hostels, clubs, sports facilities, guest houses, 10 boys' hostels, three girls' hostels, one coed hostel, and six married couples' hostels. The institute has UG, PG, Alaknanda clubs, and various other facilities for the students. IIT Roorkee's library has a collection of more than 3.20 lakh documents, Online databases, CD-ROMs, standards, audio-video material, specifications, theses, reports, etc. It also has access to more than 8,000 e-journals.

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IIT Roorkee Faculty

IIT Roorkee has 470+ faculty members, 600+ staff members. In addition to this, from presidents to prime ministers, IIT Roorkee has witnessed visits from various inspiring personalities and holds guest lectures now and then. The faculty is diploma and PhD holders.

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IIT Roorkee Notable Alumni

IIT Roorkee has a strong entrepreneurial culture, with many alumni finding technological and social venture jobs in India and abroad. A total of 10 alumni have won the Padma awards and 25 alumni have won the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology. Some of the notable alumni of IIT Roorkee are:

Alumni Name	Alumni Photograph
Ajudhia Nath Khosla: Ajudhia Nath Khosla was an Indian politician and engineer. He was the Chairman of the Central Waterways Irrigation and Navigation Commission of India.
Utpal Borpujari: Utpal Borpujari is a double National Film Award winner; one, as a film critic, and the other, as a filmmaker.
Naveen K. Jain: Naveen K. Jain is an Indian-American business executive, entrepreneur, and the founder and former CEO of InfoSpace.
Ajit Gupta: Ajit Gupta is the founder of Aryaka, AAyuja, JantaKhoj, and Speedera Networks.
Dinesh C. Paliwal: Dinesh C. Paliwal  was the president and chief executive officer of Harman International
Guru das Agrawal: Guru das Agrawal also known as Sant Swami Sanand was an Indian environmentalist, religious leader, engineer, environmental activist, monk,  professor.
Amitabh Kumar: Amitabh Kumar is a former senior vice president at Google Inc.
Jaiprakash Gaur: Jaiprakash Gaur is an Indian entrepreneur founder of Jaypee Group