Indian Institute of Information Technology, Nagpur


Indian Institute of Information Technology, Nagpur is one of the Indian Institutes of Information Technology and an Institute of National Importance located in Nagpur, Maharashtra. The institute started functioning from July 2016 in a temporary campus at Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited's Regional Telecom Training Centre. It offers Bachelor of Technology courses in Electronics and Communication Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering. It is being mentored by Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology.

Establishment

IIITN was approved by the Government of India's Ministry of Human Resource Development in May 2015. IIITN has been set up on a Public–private partnership basis. Fifty percent of the stakes are held by MHRD, whereas thirty-five percent is held by the Government of Maharashtra; the rest is held by industry partners Tata Consultancy Services and ADCC Infocad.
VNIT was declared as IIITN's mentor institute, and VNIT director Narendra Chaudhari was appointed as IIITN's mentor director. The MHRD funded for setting up of the institute, whereas Government of Maharashtra funded.

Courses

IIITN offers two B.Tech courses in Computer Science and Engineering and Electronics and Communication Engineering with capacity of 120 and 90 seats respectively. The first ever batch capacity was of 40 students only. It plans to start Master of Technology and Doctor of Philosophy courses from academic session of 2018-19. However, there is no update related to that till now. The tuition fees has been fixed at per year for the 2016-20 and 2017-21 batch. The tuition fees for newer batches has been increased to ₹180k/-.

Campus

A temporary campus for IIITN has been setup at Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited's Regional Telecom Training Centre. Its distance from all respective public transport facilities respectively is as follows:
The nearest landmark is TV Tower or Balaji Temple.