The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) IIT Bombay was founded in 1958 and is a public engineering institution. It is the second-oldest (after Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur) institute of the Indian Institutes of Technology system.

In 1961, the Parliament decreed IITs as Institutes of National Importance. Planning for the Institute at Mumbai began in 1957 and the first batch of 100 students was admitted in 1958.

Ranking

Internationally, IIT Bombay was ranked 179 in the QS World University Rankings for 2018. It was also ranked 35 in Asia and 13 among BRICS nations in 2016 by the same institute.

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranked it 351-400 globally in the 2018 ranking 42 in Asia in 2017 and 26 among BRICS & Emerging Economies University Rankings 2017.

In India, Careers360 ranked IIT Bombay second among all universities in 2017 and has given it the top rating "AAAAA" among engineering colleges in 2017.

It was ranked second among engineering colleges in 2017 by both Outlook India and The Week. The National Institutional Ranking Framework ranked it second among engineering colleges in 2017 and third overall.

Notable Alumni

IIT Bombay alumni include:

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
Narendra Kumar (physicist)
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 - Three time Chief Minister of Goa
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
Sharada Srinivasan
Atul Tandon – former director of Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad
George Varghese
Ramakrishna V. Hosur
Jay Narayan Vyas
Romesh Wadhwani – Founder of Symphony Technology private equity group.
Umesh Waghmare


Contact Detail:
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Main Gate Road, Powai, IIT Area,
Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400076
022 2572 2545