IIT Roorkee Established Year

Can you please tell me the year of the establishment of Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee? Who established this Institute? Also provide me the contact address and the map location for Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee?

Hello sir, I want to know that in which year the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee was established? Please give me year in which the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee established?

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Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee/Established
1847

The Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee is a public engineering university located in Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India.

The institute was established in 1847 in British India. The IIT Roorkee is established by the then lieutenant governor, Sir James Thomason, it was given university status in 1949 and was converted into an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in 2001, thus becoming the seventh IIT to be declared.

IIT Roorkee has 21 academic departments covering Engineering, Applied Sciences, Humanities & Social Sciences and Management programs with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.

Internationally, IIT Roorkee was ranked 431-440 in the QS World University Rankings of 2018.
The same rankings ranked it 93 in Asia and 51 among BRICS nations.
It was ranked 501-600 in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2018,

University and college rankings:

General international
QS (World) (2018) 431-440
QS (BRICS) (2018) 51
QS (Asia) (2018) 93
Times (World) (2018) 501-600
Times (BRICS) (2017) 62
Times (Asia) (2018) 65

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Architecture and Planning
Applied Science and Engineering
Biotechnology
Chemical Engineering
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Civil Engineering
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Earthquake Engineering
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Electrical Engineering
Electronics and Communication Engineering
Humanities and Social Sciences
Hydrology
Management Studies
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Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
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Polymer and Process Engineering
Physics
Water Resources Development and Management

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Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Roorkee, Uttarakhand
India - 247667
Contact No. +91-1332-285311