IIT Dharwad
Public engineering institution in Karnataka, India
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History
The late Union Human Resources Development Minister S. R. Bommai had moved the proposal to the Centre seeking an IIT in Dharwad in the 1990s. In 1998, a committee headed by former ISRO chairman and space scientist Udupi Ramachandra Rao submitted its report recommending an IIT in Hubballi-Dharwad. Union finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the 2015-16 union budget, sanctioned a budget for IIT for Karnataka state and the state government suggested three locations. The short-listed cities were Dharwad, Mysuru, and Raichur.
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Campus
IIT Dharwad initially functioned out of the campus of the Water and Land Management Institute (WALMI) in Dharwad near the Karnataka High Court Bench. A permanent campus was set up at Chikkamaligawad village.
Around 500 acres belonging to KIADB near Mummigatti on the Pune-Bangalore National Highway off Dharwad was identified for the IIT campus, but that deal was cancelled due to legal hurdles.
The permanent campus, at Chikkamalligawad, of the IIT Dharwad was inaugurated on 12 March 2023 by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It was the first green and smart IIT in India.
Dharwad city also houses other educational institutions like:
- Karnatak University,
- Karnatak College,
- University of Agricultural Sciences,
- Shree Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College of Engineering and Technology (SDMCET),
- IIIT Dharwad,
- Nettur Technical Training Foundation (NTTF)'s Tool and Die Making Educational Institute, Dharwad.
There is an airport at Gokul Road, Hubballi, the twin city of Dharwad. The airport has air services connecting to:
There is a railway station at Dharwad through which trains from Bengaluru to Goa run. Hubballi Junction is the major railway junction which has train connections to:
- Kochuveli,
- Bengaluru,
- Mumbai,
- Hyderabad,
- Varanasi,
- Howrah,
- Chennai,
- Hazrat Nizamuddin,
- Kolhapur,
- Solapur,
- Vijayawada and
- Vasco
among others. Also, Hubballi city is the headquarters of the South Western Railway Zone of the Indian Railways.
Organisation and administration
Departments, centers, and schools
Nearly 60 seats each in the streams of BTech in:
- Computer Science,
- Electrical and
- Mechanical engineering
are available at the institute. Classes began on 15 July 2016, along with the other IITs across the country.
- A new B.Tech programme in Engineering Physics with ~15 seats has been started in the Autumn 2021 Semester.
- As of 2022, the institute expanded to provide four additional courses of study, namely:
- Chemical and Biochemical engineering,
- Mathematics and Computing,
- Civil and Infrastructure engineering and
- Interdisciplinary Sciences.
The student intake as of 2022 has increased to 310 including supernumerary.
In January 2022, IIT Dharwad established the Global Center of Excellence in Affordable and Clean Energy (GCoE-ACE) in partnership with Honeywell Hometown Solutions India Foundation (HHSIF), the philanthropic arm of Honeywell.
Academics
Programmes
The institute conducts educational programs leading to the degrees of:
- Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech.),
- Bachelor of Science - Master of Science (BS-MS) five year programme,
- Master of Technology (M. Tech.),
- Master of Science (MS) and
- Ph.D.
Since the year 2024, the BTech Specialization in Electrical Engineering was discontinued, and was replaced by BTech in Electronics and Communication Engineering, and BTech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
Ranking
IIT Dharwad is ranked 77 among the engineering colleges of India by National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2025.
Student life
Cultural and non-academic activities
The activities are divided into three verticals namely: technical, cultural and sports.
Technical Council
- Hardly Human - AI club
- Astral - Astronomy club
- Code Geass - Coding club
- Abhikalpa - Design club
- Electronics club
- Finance club - Insolvent
- Ingene - Motorsports club
- Robotics club
- Cosmosoc - Space and Data Science club
Cultural Council
- Sapphire - Dance Club
- Dramatics Club
- Aesthetica - Fine Arts Club
- Eunoia - Literary Club
- Rhapsody - Music Club
- Focus - Photography Club
- Quiz Club
- Prabodhini - Spiritual Club
Sports Council
- Athletics club
- Badminton club
- Basketball club
- Chess club
- Cricket club
- E-Sports club
- Football club
- Hockey club
- Squash club
- Table Tennis club
- Volleyball club
- Weightlifting club
IIT Dharwad also organises its own intra-IIT cultural(HarSHtAl), technical(PARSEC) and sports meets, which are conducted annually. These often garner participants from various branches and batches, and even other colleges.
Awards
- S R Mahadeva Prasanna, a Senior Member of the IEEE, and Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad was awarded the President of India National Award for Teachers (2023).