The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur famously called IIT Kharagpur and now and then as IIT KGP is an organization of designing and innovation. It was set up in 1951 by the Government of India. This self-governing assemblage of advanced education has been perceived as one of the Institutes of National Importance.

It is additionally among the top building establishments in the nation. IIT Kharagpur grounds is the biggest among the various IITs with a region of 2100 sections of land and greatest number of understudies and offices.

The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur which was initially arranged in Esplanade Calcutta, moved to the changeless grounds at Hijli, Kharagpur in September 1950.

Other than the primary campus, the foundation likewise has one augmentation focus situated at Kolkata to offer proceeding with instruction and separation learning courses.

The foundation's arrangement for a comparable branch campus of 200 sections of land (0.81 km2) in Bhubaneswar was rejected after dismissal by the Union Human Resource and Development service.

IIT Kharagpur has eight multi-disciplinary centres or schools, thirteen schools of excellence, and nineteen academic departments. These are:

• Aerospace Engineering
• Architecture & Regional Planning
• Biotechnology
• Agricultural & Food Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Chemistry
• Computer Science & Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Cryogenic Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Center for Educational Technology
• Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering
• Geology & Geophysics
• Humanities & Social Sciences
• G S Sanyal School of Telecommunications
• Industrial Engineering & Management
• Materials Science
• Information Technology
• Mathematics
• Medical Science & Technology
• Mechanical Engineering
• Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
• Ocean Engineering & Naval Architecture
• Mining Engineering
• Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences
• Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law
• Physics & Meteorology
• Ranbir and Chitra Gupta School of Infrastructure Design and Management
• Rubber Technology Centre
• Rural Development Centre
• Reliability Engineering Centre
• School of Water Resources
• Vinod Gupta School of Management