Type Public Location Farmagudi, Goa, India Founded 2016 | Established 2016 Phone 0832 240 4200 Undergraduates 90 | |
Campus Temporary - Goa Engineering College Address Near ITI College, Farmagudi, Ponda, Goa 403401 Similar Indian Institute of Technolo, Indian Institute of Technolo, Indian Institute of Technolo, Goa Engineering College, Indian Institute of Technolo | ||
Indian Institute of Technology Goa (IIT Goa) is an autonomous premier engineering and technology university located in Goa. The new Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Goa would start functioning from July, 2016 in a temporary campus housed at Goa Engineering College (GEC) Campus located at Farmagudi, Goa. For the academic year 2016-2017, it will offer B.Tech courses in three core branches namely Electrical, Computer Science and Mechanical.
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As part of the mentorship plan, IIT-Bombay would be the mentor for IIT-Goa. The HRD Ministry had set up an IIT monitoring cell at IIT-Bombay and the committee members had been designated as officials on special duty to supervise the process of setting up IIT-Goa.
Campus & Location
The campus is located at Farmagudi, Ponda approximately 29 km southeast of Panaji, the capital of Goa and it is a temporary campus. The state of Goa is well connected by road ways, rail ways and air ways with various parts of the country. At present IIT Goa is temporarily accommodated and functioning in the Goa Engineering College (GEC) Campus located at Farmagudi, Goa. Goa Government had identified land for permanent campus in Loliem village measures approximately 280 acres, has been approved by Union ministry of human resources development (HRD).The MHRD expects that the IIT Goa will function from the temporary campus for just the initial three years and is expected to move to its permanent facility by the fourth year.
Departments, centres, and schools
Thirty seats each in the streams of computers , electrical and mechanical engineering are being made available at the institute and classes are slated to begin after July 15, 2016, along with the other IITs across the country.
Programmes
The Institute conducts educational programmes leading to the degree of Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech.) in the following areas: