IIT Madras Established

I am planning to join the IIT Madras for higher studies and want to know about IITM in detail. Will you please tell me when IIT Madras was established and the year of establishment? Also provide me the contact address and location map of the IIT Madras so that I can visit the campus?

When the Indian Institute of Technology Madras was established? Also provide me the details of the Institute?

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Indian Institute of Technology Madras is a Public Engineering Institute established in 1959 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

As one of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), it is recognised as an Institute of National Importance.

It was Founded with technical and financial assistance from the former government of West Germany, it was the third IIT that was established by the Government of India.

IIT Madras is a residential institute that occupies a 2.5 km campus that was formerly part of the adjoining Guindy National Park.

IIT Madras offers undergraduate, postgraduate and research degrees across 16 disciplines in Engineering, Sciences, Humanities and Management. About 360 faculty belonging to science and engineering departments and centres of the Institute are engaged in teaching, research and industrial consultancy.

The institute has 16 academic departments and advanced research centres across disciplines of engineering and pure sciences, with nearly 100 laboratories.

Internationally, IIT Madras was ranked 264 in the QS World University Rankings of 2018.

The same rankings ranked it 48 in Asia and 18 among BRICS nations.

It was ranked 601-800 in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2018, 103 in ASIA and 35 among BRICS & Emerging Economies University Rankings in 2017

Departments

Aerospace Engineering
Applied Mechanics
Biotechnology
Chemical Engineering
Chemistry
Civil Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Engineering Design
Humanities and Social Sciences
Mechanical Engineering
Management Studies
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Mathematics
Ocean Engineering
Physics

Contact-

Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Sardar Patel Rd, Opposite to C, L.R.I, Adyar, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600036