Indian Institutes of Technology
Indian Institutes of Technology (or IITs) are the premier engineering colleges in India. They were founded in the 1950s by the Indian Government under a special act by the President, and modelled along the lines of great US universities, notably MIT. The IIT campuses were founded in Kharagpur (1950), Mumbai (1958), Chennai (1959), Kanpur (1960), New Delhi (1961), and more recently in Guwahati (1995) and Roorkee (2001).
Many graduates of the IITs go to the USA to work and to study. The IITs are well respected worldwide. They are often referred to as the MIT-equivalents in India. Many of the IIT Alumni have excelled in Silicon Valley.
Notable Alumni
(name, college, year, achievement)
- Vinod Khosla, Delhi, - , co-founder SUN Mircosystems
- Arun Sarin, - , - , CEO- designate of Vodafone
- Avi Nash, - , - , Advisory Director, Goldman Sachs
- Desh Deshpande, - , - , co-founder Sycamore Networks
- Narayana Murthy, - , - , Founder and Chairman of Infosys
- Rajat Gupta, - , - , Managing Director, McKinsey & Company
- Rakesh Gangwal, - , - , CEO Worldspan, ex-CEO US Airways Group
- Sanjiv Sidhu, - , - , founder and CEO, I2 Technologies
- Victor Menezes, - , - , Senior Vice Chairman, Citigroup