On August 5, 2015, Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati was started functioning in a temporary campus housed at Krishna Theja Educational Institutions in Chadalawada Nagar on the outskirts of the temple city.

Commonly known as IIT Tirupati or IITTP and it is an autonomous engineering and technology education institute located in Tirupati and imparting quality education for the deserving candidates.

For the academic year 2015-2016, it will offer B.Tech courses in 4 core branches namely Civil, Computer Science, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering with 30 seats in each branch.

Going forward, the institute plans are well underway to set up its own campus (about 530 acres) in the coming 2 to 3 years in Merlapaka Village, Yerpedu Mandal, Chittoor Dist.

At present, IIT Tirupati offers a 4 years Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) programmes in several engineering fields. Admissions to these programmes are through the Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE), and students are admitted after completing 10+2 schooling.

The institute started its beginning with the following 4 departments.

• Computer Science and Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering

Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) are the autonomous public institutes of higher education located in India. They are governed by the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 which has declared them as institutions of national importance and lays down their powers, duties, and framework for governance etc.

The Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 lists 23 institutes located at Ropar, Palghat, Dhanbad, Bhilai, Delhi, Dharwad, Jodhpur, Goa, Jammu, Kharagpur, Kanpur, Mumbai, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Gandhinagar, Varanasi, Hyderabad, Guwahati, Indore, Roorkee, Mandi, Patna, and Tirupati.

The IIT Council links each IIT to the other as these are autonomous institutions. The IIT Council oversees their administration.

The ex-officio Chairperson of the IIT Council is the Union HRD Minister. For undergraduate admissions, the IITs have a common admission process, the Joint Entrance Examination Advanced. Before 2013, the common admission process was called IIT-JEE.

The older IITs (Madras, Bombay, Kharagpur, Delhi, Kanpur, Roorkee, Dhanbad, Varanasi and Guwahati) administer the post-graduate level programs. They award the MS and M.Tech degrees in engineering. The Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) is conducted for MS and M.Tech admissions.

Other than offering MS, B.Tech and M.Tech programs, IITs also award M.Sc degrees in Maths, Physics, and Chemistry; Ph.D.; MBA; etc. In order to get admission to these courses, students have to clear the Common Entrance Examination for Design (CEED), Joint Admission Test for Masters (JAM) and Common Admission Test (CAT).

VISION

IIT Tirupati will be a leading center of higher education with global outlook and local relevance.

MISSION

To educate undergraduate and postgraduate students to think deeply about and engage in the social, scientific, economic, and professional challenges of our times.

To generate, preserve, communicate, and apply knowledge for the benefit of society through research.

To provide public service through outreach programs and industry partnerships, by disseminating research results and translating scientific discoveries into practical knowledge and technological innovations that benefit the nation and world at large.