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Partners In Success - Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar

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DIVERSITY<br />

<strong>In</strong> addition to recruiting its full time faculty<br />

from some <strong>of</strong> the world’s finest institutions<br />

(CalTech, Carnegie Mellon, Purdue, Cambridge,<br />

Michigan, Vanderbilt, Texas Tech,<br />

Berkeley, Cornell, Illinois, Max Planck, Harvard,<br />

Warwick), IIT <strong>Gandhinagar</strong> has established<br />

a vigorous visiting faculty program<br />

and a flexible short course structure, which<br />

exposes our students to scores <strong>of</strong> the most<br />

prominent scholars and pr<strong>of</strong>essionals from<br />

all over <strong>In</strong>dia, as well as the United States,<br />

France, Germany, Portugal, Switzerland, Singapore,<br />

United Kingdom, New Zealand, etc.<br />

Students attend cutting edge workshops and<br />

programs in such diverse fields as cognition,<br />

elliptic and parabolic differential equations,<br />

archeology, literature <strong>of</strong> cosmology, geotechnical<br />

aspects <strong>of</strong> earthquake engineering,<br />

creating comics, etc.<br />

OUTCOMES<br />

The graduating class <strong>of</strong> 2013 testifies to the<br />

success <strong>of</strong> our vision and mission.<br />

• More than 35 % <strong>of</strong> the undergraduate<br />

class availed educational or internship<br />

opportunities abroad.<br />

• Nearly 1 in 6 graduating student is<br />

pursuing a master’s or doctoral degree.<br />

• Over 10 % are headed abroad to some<br />

<strong>of</strong> the world’s finest institutions, such as<br />

Carnegie Mellon, Purdue, Duke, Cornell,<br />

Brown, California at Santa Barbara, Texas,<br />

Washington in Seattle, etc.<br />

• Selectivity ratio <strong>of</strong> 0.5 % for graduate<br />

students in 2013 is higher than even the<br />

Joint Entrance Examination.<br />

IIT <strong>Gandhinagar</strong> Campus Master Plan<br />

SOUTH CAMPUS

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