Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur is a premier national institute of eminence engaged in teaching, research, and development of physical and social sciences, engineering, and technology as also R&D and professional activities related to the infrastructure development.

Established in 1960, it is reputed the world over for its innovative academic programmes stressing science-based engineering education.

In its initial years, IIT Kanpur benefited from a novel experiment in international cooperation when a consortium of nine leading universities of the USA collaborated with it to launch world-class engineering education in our country.

IIT-K carries out original research of significance and develops cutting edge technologies. It imparts training to students to produce competent and motivated engineers and scientists. The Institute celebrates freedom of thought, cultivates vision and encourages growth, inculcating human values and concern for the environment and the society in the process.

Here can be found a fine scientific and technological library, which exhausts superlatives, with an online information retrieval system over the extensive campus LAN.

The Institute has excellent academic facilities with perhaps the best and most openly accessible computing facilities in the country, modern laboratories which include a flight laboratory with three powered aeroplanes and a wind tunnel facility.

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