IIT KHARAGPUR
Established: 1952
Largest number of courses, including several not offered by other IITs.
Excels in post-graduate studies and research
Some distinguished alumni:
Rono Dutta, president, United Airlines
Purnendu Chatterjee, president, The Chatterjee Group
Suhas Patil, founder, Cirrus Logic
Arjun Malhotra, co-founder, HCL Group
B.K. Syngal, CEO, Reliance Telecom
IIT Kanpur
Established: 1961
Computer Science at IIT Kanpur is the most coveted course among all IITs
Some distinguished alumni:
Rakesh Gangwal, president, US Air
Umang Gupta, CEO, Keynote Systems
Pavan Nigam, co-founder, Healtheon
Deepak Bhagat, chief, product strategy, Sun Microsystems
Ashish Gupta, co-founder, junglee.com
IIT GUWAHATI
Established: 1995
Only IIT to offer BTech in Design
Distinguished alumni:
Only two batches have graduated till date
IIT DELHI
Established: 1963
Physics and mechanical engineering are a big draw
Some distinguished alumni:
Rajat Gupta, CEO, McKinsey & Co
Vinod Khosla, founder-CEO, Sun Microsystems
Y.C. Deveshwar, chairman, ITC
Rajendra Singh Pawar, CEO, NIIT
Mohanbir Sawhney, e-business theorist
IIT CHENNAI
Established: 1959
Computer Science is its forte
Some distinguished alumni:
Gururaj Deshpande, chairman, Sycamore Networks
C.G. Krishnadas Nair, managing director, HAL
Venky Harinarayan, co-founder, junglee.com
T.T. Jagannathan, group managing director, TTK Group
Sunil Wadhwani, CEO, iGate Capital
IIT MUMBAI
Established: 1958
Chemical engineering education comparable with the best in the world
Some distinguished alumni:
Arun Netravali, president, Bell Laboratories
Kanwal Rekhi, Silicon Valley venture capitalist
Nandan Nilekani, managing director, Infosys Technologies
Deepak Satwalekar, managing director, HDFC
Rakesh Mathur, co-founder, junglee.com
