The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) is a public engineering institution established in 1958. In the QS World University Rankings 2014, it was ranked as India’s top university.

Ranking

Internationally, IIT Bombay is ranked overall 202 globally and 46th among Asian institutes in the QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) World University Rankings for 2015.

It featured in top 400 in the ranking by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2015-16.

In India, among engineering colleges, it was ranked second by Outlook India in 2015. Among universities in India, it ranks second in Careers 360 (Magazine) Top Universities in India 2015.

Amongst government engineering colleges, it was first by Mint in 2009. It is ranked 2 in National Institutional Ranking Framework published by Ministry of Human Resource Development in April 2016.

It has a comprehensive graduate program offering doctoral degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

Currently it has a total of 14 academic departments, six centers, one school, and three interdisciplinary programmes.

Educational programmes in it extend beyond the physical sciences and engineering into humanities and social sciences such as Economics, English, Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology and into management studies. Over the years, the institute has also created a niche for its innovative short-term courses through continuing education and distance education programmes

Notable Alumni

Sarita Adve
Sudhir Ahuja
Ramani Ayer
Pratim Biswas
Sanjiv Bhatt – Indian Police Service officer
V. V. Chari
Ashish Chauhan
K. S. Dasgupta
Vinay Deolalikar
Bharat Desai – Founder of Syntel
Jaydev P. Desai
Rajnesh Domalpalli
Hemchandra Kekre – Head of Department of Computer Science, IIT Bombay
Shailesh Gandhi
Uttam Ghoshal
Aniruddha M. Gole
Colin Gonsalves
Vipul Goyal
Raj Gupta
Kota Harinarayana
Subrah Iyar
Sadanand Joshi
Vikas Joshi
Anil Kamath
Ravindran Kannan – Winner of Fulkerson Prize and Knuth prize
Narendra Karmarkar – Mathematician
Pramod Khargonekar
Subhash Khot
Pravin Krishna
Sudheendra Kulkarni – Politician and columnist
Anil Kumar
Udaya Kumar (designer) – Designer of the Indian rupee sign
Arun Majumdar
Victor Menezes – Senior Vice Chairman of Citigroup
Pranav Mistry – Computer scientist at MIT
Dharmendra Modha
Dinesh Mohan
Madhavan Mukund - Dean of Studies, Chennai Mathematical Institute
Jag Mundhra
N. K. Naik
Arun Netravali – Former President of Bell Laboratories
Nandan Nilekani – Co-founder of Infosys
Nitin Nohria – Dean of Harvard Business School
Satyendra Pakhale – Industrial Designer and Architect
Suhas Patankar – Pioneer in Computational fluid dynamics
Apoorva D. Patel
Jairaj Phatak
Manohar Parrikar
Ajit Ranade
Prashant Ranade
Prasad Ram
T. V. Raman
Jairam Ramesh – Politician
Kanwal Rekhi – Businessman
S. Shankar Sastry
Parag Saxena
Suresh P. Sethi
Beheruz Sethna
Sheel Kant Sharma
Sunil Sivanand
Sharada Srinivasan
Atul Tandon – former director of Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad
George Varghese
Jay Narayan Vyas
Romesh Wadhwani – Founder of Symphony Technology private equity group.
Umesh Waghmare

Contact Detail:
IT Bombay,
Powai, Mumbai 400 076,
Maharashtra, India
Phone: +91 (22) 2572 2545
Fax: +91 (22) 2572 3480