IIT Mandi improves intake of girl students in BTech; up by 20% from 2019

According to the official reports, as many as 68 girls and 262 boys joined this year as compared to 53 girls and 209 boys as that of the last year.

IIT Mandi Admission 2020: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi welcomed the new BTech batch of 330 students from different parts of the country who joined the batch of 2020 – 2024 in a virtual orientation event. According to the official reports, as many as 68 girls and 262 boys joined this year as compared to 53 girls and 209 boys as that of the last year. The reports also suggest that this year, female enrolment at IIT Mandi in undergraduate programmes increased by admitting 20.61 per cent female students to BTech programme. 

While speaking on the occasion, IIT Mandi director, Ajit K Chaturvedi said, “IIT Mandi has developed a beautiful state of art research facilities, classrooms, as well as hostels and sports complexes. The unique curriculum of IIT Mandi includes courses like reverse engineering and Interactive Socio-Technical Practicum (ISTP) which help students to be empathetic towards societal problems and learn to provide engineering solutions.”

The students were introduced to a “5 Week Induction Programme” (5WIP) which the Institute is organising in phases this year due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The first phase of the induction programme started on November 23, 2020. The next phase of 5WIP will be organised once the students return to the campus. Pradeep Parameswaran, Dean (Academics), IIT Mandi, said, “An important aspect of the curriculum is the integration of innovation and design into the learning process. This is achieved through a model of learning by doing, which is built into the curriculum. At IIT Mandi, the students are exposed to a broad range of knowledge and skills that will enable them to perform well in tomorrow’s increasingly complex and inter-dependent world.”

Several additional features including Minor program, BTech Honours, among others are introduced by the institute under BTech programme. The Minor program will help students in gaining expertise in areas like Management, Intelligent Systems, Applied Physics, and German language, outside the major course discipline. Students can increase their credit score by opting B.Tech. Honours. The Institute bagged the seventh spot in the ‘Centrally Funded Institutions’ category of ARIIA 2020. IIT Mandi Catalyst has helped over 75 startups since 2017.

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