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Indian Institutes of Technology (or IITs) are the premier engineering colleges in India. They were founded in the 1950s by the Indian Government under a special act by the President, and modelled along the lines of great US universities, notably MIT. The IIT campuses were founded inKharagpur (1950), Mumbai (1958), Chennai (1959), Kanpur (1960), New Delhi (1961), and more recently in Guwahati (1995) and Roorkee (2001).

There are about 1500 undergraduate and 2000 graduate students in each IIT. Many graduates of the IITs go to the USA to work and to study. The IITs are well respected worldwide. They are often referred to as the MIT-equivalents in India. Many of the IIT Alumni have excelled in Silicon Valley.

A student/alumni of the Indian Institutes of Technology is known as an IITian.

Notable Alumni

Name Campus Year Achievement
Ajay Bharadwaj Delhi 82 President, Biocon India
Arjun Malhotra - - co-founder, HCL Technologies
Arun Sarin - - CEO-designate of

Vodafone

Avi Nash

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Advisory Director, Goldman Sachs

Bharat Desai

Mumbai

75

Chairman and CEO, Syntel Inc

Desh Deshpande

Chennai

-

co-founder Sycamore Networks

Kanwal Rekhi

Mumbai

-

CEO Ensim Corporation; ex-CTO Novell

Manohar Parrikar

Mumbai

78

Chief Minister, Goa

Narayana Murthy

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-

co-founder and Chairman of Infosys

Nandan Nilekani

Mumbai

78

co-founder and CEO of Infosys

Rajat Gupta

Delhi

71

Managing Director, McKinsey & Company

Rakesh Gangwal

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-

CEO Worldspan, ex-CEO US Airways Group

Ravi Uppal

Delhi

-

Vice-Chairman and MD, ABB India

Sanjiv Sidhu

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-

founder and CEO, I2 Technologies

Som Mittal

Kanpur

73

CEO Digital GlobalSoft

Victor Menezes

Mumbai

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Senior Vice Chairman, Citigroup

Vindi Banga

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chairman, HLL

Vinod Khosla

Delhi

76

co-founder SUN Mircosystems

List of fictional IITians