Indian Institutes of Technology

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are tertiary educational institutes established by the Government of India to offer undergraduate, integrated postgraduate and postgraduate degrees and the Doctor of Philosophy in over 25 different engineering, technology and business/management disciplines.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The first Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru said at the first convocation address at IIT Kharagpur:

• "Here in the place of that Hijli Detention Camp stands the fine monument of India, representing India's urges, India's future in the making. This picture seems to me symbolical of the changes that are coming to India."

CBS 60 Minutes

• Lesley Stahl of CBS on 60 Minutes
• "Put Harvard, MIT and Princeton together and you begin to get an idea of the status of IITs in India."
• N.R. Narayana Murthy, founder of Infosys on 60 Minutes:
• "My son wanted to study computer science. But to study at the IITs he had to be among the top 200 in the country. So he chose Cornell."
• Vinod Khosla, venture capitalist on 60 Minutes:
• "When I graduated from IIT Delhi and went to CMU for my master's, I thought I cruised all the way through Carnegie Mellon because it was so easy, compared to the education I had gotten at IIT Delhi." (Vinod received a Masters in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon and is co-founder of Sun Microsystems)