Hey!!!! Indian Institute of Technology Madras is a public engineering and research institute located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu and is one of India's most prestigious universities.


In 1956, the West German Government offered technical assistance for establishing an institute of higher education in engineering in India.

The first Indo-German agreement was signed in Bonn, West Germany in 1959 for the establishment of the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras.

IIT Madras was started with technical, academic and financial assistance from the Government of West Germany and was at the time the largest educational project sponsored by the West German Government outside their country.

The institute was inaugurated in 1959 by Prof Humayun Kabir, the then Union Minister for Scientific Research and Cultural Affairs. In 1961, the IITs were declared to be Institutions of National Importance that include the seven Institutes of Technology located at

-Kharagpur (established 1951),

-Mumbai (established 1958),

-Chennai (established 1959),

-Kanpur (established 1959),

-Delhi (established 1961),

-Guwahati (established 1994) and

-Roorkee (established 1847, renamed to an IIT in 2001).


IIT Madras celebrated its Golden Jubilee in 2009



Departments

-Aerospace Engineering

-Applied Mechanics

-Biotechnology

-Chemical Engineering

-Chemistry

-Civil Engineering

-Computer Science and Engineering

-Electrical Engineering

-Engineering Design

-Humanities and Social Sciences

-Mechanical Engineering

-Management Studies

-Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

-Mathematics

-Ocean Engineering

-Physics


Address:

Indian Institute of Technology Madras
IIT P.O., Chennai 600 036
INDIA