The Indian Institutes of Technology
The Indian Institutes of Technology were created as centers of excellence for
research and education in engineering and technology. There are six campuses
of IIT spread across India.
The campus at Guwahati is the latest addition, having been inaugurated the Fall
1995 semester. Others have been around for at least forty years. The only
other institute in India
that compares with the IIT's in the quality of technical research and education
is the Indian Institute of
Science , Bangalore.