A Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology is considered to be one of the most prestigious in the world.


Entrance requirements: High placement on IIT Joint Entrance Examination.

Acceptance rate: Less than 2% (approximately 5,500 admissions out of 300,000 applicants).

Tuition: $1,100 a year (including miscellaneous administrative expenses).

Duration: Four years.

Famous alumni: N.R. Narayana Murthy (cofounder and chairman of Infosys); Rajat Gupta (former managing director of McKinsey & Company); Vinod Khosla (cofounder of Sun Microsystems).

The Indian Institutes of Technology are a group of seven technology and engineering schools in India that have won worldwide recognition for the quality of the education they provide.

Graduates from these schools are often revered for their practical and in-depth knowledge, and a degree from IIT is often seen as a ticket to success. In fact, the excellence of these schools hasn't gone unnoticed, with many graduates being courted and cherry-picked for some rather lucrative jobs abroad.


In recent years, many graduates from Western universities have found it worthwhile to supplement their degrees with additional training from these universities. Among the more popular subjects are Extreme Programming and Pair Programming, both of which India has grown an expertise in.


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The enterance test for IITs is considered to be the toughest in the world. There are seven IITs all over India.
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

AP: Village labourer cracks IIT entrance

Radhika Iyer

Friday, June 6, 2008 (Khammam, AP)

With hard effort and single-minded devotion, you can make possible what seems impossible.

That is what an 18-year-old has shown in Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh. With not enough to eat, and no money even to burn the midnight oil, in a village with hardly nine hours daily power supply, the boy managed to secure 453rd rank in the IIT entrance exam. However, he has won only half the battle yet.

At Garikapadu village in Khammam district, the IIT entrance rank holder, Narasimha Rao, is a labour under the National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme.

With the daily wage of Rs 80, Narasimha wants to repay dues for borrowing books from a reference library. Even at work, his thoughts revolve around science.

"'When I am working in the field also, I think of questions in physics. I just can't understand how these mobiles work? How the waves travel?"' says Narasimha.

Narsimha's mother Lakshmi can't tell what exam her son has passed but the labourer parents say their son has made them proud.

"'My boy said he would buy me a gas stove to cook after he gets a job. I know he is grown up now. My eyes burn when we burn wood," says Lakshmi.

Narsimha managed to get coaching in an IIT institute in nearby Vijaywada with the financial support by some elders in this village. Now the 18-year-old has to attend counselling at IIT Madras on June 18, for which he does not even have travel expenses.

"'After I am settled in life, I promise to pay back the money. I will be so thankful,"' says Narasimha.

Source - http://www.ndtv.com/