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Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Indian Institute of Technology — Kanpur
भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान कानपुर
IIT Kanpur Logo.svg
Type Public
Established 1959
Endowment
Chairman R. C. Bhargava
Director Indranil Manna
Administrative staff
395
Undergraduates 3938
Postgraduates 2540
Location Kalyanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Campus 1055 Acres
Website http://www.iitk.ac.in/
University and college rankings
General – international
QS (World) 272
QS (Asian) 58
Engineering – India
India Today 1
Outlook India 4
Government colleges:
Mint 2
Business – India

The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (also known as IIT Kanpur or IITK) is a public research university funded by government located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. It was declared to be an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India under the IIT Act.

Established in 1959 as one of the first Indian Institutes of Technology, the institute was created with the assistance of a consortium of nine US research universities as part of the Kanpur Indo-American Programme (KIAP).

IIT Kanpur was established by an Act of Parliament in 1959. The institute was started in December 1959 in a room in the canteen building of the Harcourt Butler Technological Institute at Agricultural Gardens in Kanpur. In 1963, the institute moved to its present location, on the Grand Trunk Road near the village of Kalyanpur in Kanpur district.

During the first ten years of its existence, a consortium of nine US universities (namely M.I.T, University of California, Berkeley, California Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Carnegie Institute of Technology, University of Michigan, Ohio State University, Case Institute of Technology and Purdue University) helped set up IIT Kanpur's research laboratories and academic programmes under the Kanpur Indo-American Programme (KIAP). The first Director of the Institute was P. K. Kelkar (after whom the Central Library was renamed in 2002).


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