Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH) was established in the year 2008. IITH aims to train well-rounded engineers who are ready to tackle real-world problems. In a short period of time, IIT Hyderabad has emerged as a prestigious institute of higher learning producing students of great calibre. IITH is creating a unique holistic educational ecosystem that will foster interactive learning, cutting edge research, strong industry collaboration, and entrepreneurship. It is providing an environment wherein students and faculty are not afraid to experiment and celebrate their ideas.
Hyderabad campus is spread over 570 acres, which is about 60-minute drive from the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad, and 30-minute drive from Gachibowli – the IT and financial hub of Hyderabad. The campus buildings are designed by world renowned architects and have the ultra-modern aesthetics with world class amenities. The hostels have a very unique architecture, making it more of a dwelling rather than a student hostel. IITH has a vibrant student gymkhana that oversees all the aspects of the students’ life during their stay at IIT Hyderabad.
Keeping in view the vision of IITH i.e. inventions and innovations, several state-of-the-art research laboratories have been set up, which are highly unique to IITH. To name a few such facilities, the Institute has (a) Nanotechnology, (b) X-Materials Innovations Laboratory and (c) Cyber Physical Systems / Internet of Things, (d) High Performance Computing Centre and many more centres are in the offing. IITH is the first IIT to offer a course on Digital Fabrication to the students. IITH has all the other infrastructure facilities, like library, access to almost all online publications, computing, networking, the campus is Wi-Fi enabled, state of the art workshops, and latest teaching and research laboratories.
The student life at IITH has been and continues to be very eventful. There is a very visible flow of energy at the hostel with a lot of events and celebrations almost every month. Starting from Orientation Program & Fresher’s Night at the start of the academic year until the Farewell at the very end our calendar is fully packed with events of all kinds like the Ice cream nights for the foodies and DJ Nights for the people who want to dance their hearts out. The Sci-Tech week for all the geeks and of course the open mic nights for your timely dose for entertainment and culture and also not to forget the biggest Fests of Hyderabad, the techno-cultural fest of IITH-Elan & ηVision.
A whole lot of club activities are carried on at the hostels. Students keep themselves involved in a lot of activities in the hostel and they are fascinating in their own way that no student cannot resist from participating in all of them. Apart from those, one may always see interaction between students not only for exchanging ideas, thoughts and innovations but also having fun. Students are encouraged to participate in various cultural, sports and scientific/Technical events conducted by the Student Elected Body (Gymkhana) through various clubs. They are various student clubs like Sci-tech, Cultural, Behind the lens, Rangde manch, Lit-Soc etc which the students can get involved. Apart from the student club, students can get involved in NSS, NCC, EBSB activities.
Various student celebrations like Techno-Cultural Fest (ELAN & N-Vision), MILAN (Inter hostel sports competition), Hostel UTSAVs (Hostel celebration), DIESTA, Inter IIT Sports meet, Inter IIT Tech meet, Inter IIT Cultural meet are organised every year.
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