The Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (Hindi: भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान गांधीनगर), located in Gujarat, is a part of the Indian Institutes of Technology System. IIT Gandhinagar, one among the newly set up IITs had come into existence on 2 August 2008. IIT Gandhinagar has its temporary campus at the Vishwakarma Government Engineering College, Chandkheda. This IIT has found abode in a land famous for its entrepreneurs, technocrats and great industrial infrastructure. The area where IIT Gandhinagar is located is also an educational and a research hub with a number of world renowned institutes. The growth of IIT Gandhinagar since its inception has been extraordinary. The academic backbone of IIT Gandhinagar has been created by a host of experienced academicians from various institutes of international stature as well as by the mentor institute, IIT Bombay. The infrastructural development has been progressing so as to maintain the high quality standards set for IITs which have been the defining feature of the IITs brand value.
Academic programs currently include the B.Tech. and the PhD IITGN aims to start M.Tech programmes from July 2011.
IIT Gandhinagar has introduced the concept of student exchange which has not been introduced in any of the IITs before. Presently, students from institutes all over the country have been spending a semester attending classes and earning credit from their parent institution at IITGN.
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