Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, the sixth member of the IIT fraternity, was
established in 1994. At present the Institute has eleven departments, seven interdisciplinary academic centres and five schools covering all the major engineering ,
science, healthcare, management and humanities disciplines. Within a short period of
time, IIT Guwahati has been able to build up world class infrastructure for carrying out
advanced research and has been equipped with state-of-the-art scientific and engineering
instruments.
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati’s campus is on a sprawling 285 hectares plot of
land on the north bank of the river Brahmaputra around 20 kms from the heart of the city.
With the majestic Brahmaputra on one side, and with hills and vast open spaces on others,
the campus provides an ideal setting for learning.
IIT Guwahati is the only academic institution in India that occupied a place among the top
100 world universities – under 50 years of age – ranked by the London-based Times
Higher Education (THE) in the year 2014 and continues to maintain its superior position
even today in various International Rankings. IIT Guwahati has been also ranked 2nd in
the ‘Swachhata Ranking’ conducted by the Govt. of India, and 6th globally in Sustainable
Development Goal 7 (Affordable and clean energy) of the Times Higher Education Impact
Rankings 2023
You will have opportunity to visit many exciting research centers such as Centre for Drone
Technology, Centre for Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems, Centre for Intelligent CyberPhysical Systems, Centre for Linguistic Science and Technology, Centre for
Nanotechnology, Centre for Sustainable Polymers, Centre for Sustainable Water
Research, Centre for the Environment, Technology Incubation Center. The research park
at IIT Guwahati is the first park to be set up in NE India to promote the advancement of
technology-based innovators, entrepreneurs and small & large companies through
customized space, shared equipment, incubation, mentorship and funding.
Our faculty and researchers will be keen to discuss their ongoing research in numerous
cutting-edge topics such as converting crop residue to biogas at-scale, high-value foodproducts (e.g., turmeric milk extract, functional unripe papaya) from unique produce from
North East regions, agro-based green concrete, IoT driven mobile-edge networks,
improving stutter detection in audio recordings, Hand-function assessment using computer
vision for hand rehabilitation, and Glaucoma screening in fundus images using image
segmentation.
You may also want to supplement your IIT-Guwahati visit with recreational visits to wellknown nearby places such as world-famous Kaziranga National Park, Kamakhya Temple,
Pobitora Wildlife Santuary, Dipor Bil (lake), and Umananda Temple.
Our campus is conveniently located from airport (about 25 Kms and 40-min drive). Besides
ample capacity in our on-campus guest houses, nearby Guwahati City (19 Kms away with
30 mins drive) offers numerous world-class hotels
