International Institute of Information Technology – Bangalore (IIT-B) Established in September 1999, IIIT-Bangalore is a new generation Graduate School focusing on all aspects of information technology. It has the status of a University (conferred under Section 3 of the UGC Act 1956), and is promoted by the Government of Karnataka and the IT industry. With its proficient and well informed faculty IIIT-Bangalore has been able to attract high quality students from all over India into its acclaimed M.Tech. M.S. and Ph.D. degree programs. Achieving 100% placement of all its graduates, the institute has a strong placement program. The graduates have found challenging assignments with several multinational and Indian giants of the IT industry. The amalgamation of broad-based curriculum good ties with the industry ensures that the students are equipped with the right skills to be highly productive and ready to take on real-world IT challenges when they graduate. Even before the students graduate, the Institute's internship program gives the students an opportunity to get a good exposure of the real-world projects as part of the final semester. An avenue for placement, the internship program enables students to get job offers by the companies they work for in the final semester. Fundamental to Information Technology is the integration of different technologies and the integration of technologies into organizations. The M.Tech. program is a four semester program. The first three semesters of the program constitute academic course work. During the fourth semester, a student can either take up an industry internship or academic research at the institute leading to a thesis. Electives are offered in several areas of information technology such as:
Distributed computing.
Computer networks.
Digital signal processing.
Software engineering.
Information systems (such as GIScience , Information Retrieval and Data Modeling).
Admission to M.Tech. Program is made on the basis of prior academic performance (at various centers nationwide), and an admission interview (held in May at the Institute in Bangalore). The minimum qualification for admission to the programs in the Institute is a first-class four-year bachelor's degree in engineering (i.e. B.E., B.Tech., or equivalent). Final-year students expecting to graduate by August 2008 may also apply. Performance in the GATE examination in computer science or a related area may also be considered in admission decisions. Government scholarships, if available, require students to have taken the GATE exam (though this need not necessarily be in computer science).
