IIT Delhi opens its arms for non-JEE candidates

The Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT Delhi) has undertaken the task of becoming a comprehensive university and also to let in students for some latest educational streams such as bachelor of design, even the ones who didn’t appear for Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) system.

What the director of IIT Delhi has to say?

"We have a powerful and very involved humanities and social sciences department that is very qualified. We have a new School of Public Policy and have established a design department. We should accept undergraduate students from outside the JEE Advanced Examination this year or the next if all goes well,” said IIT Delhi Director V. Ramgopal Rao. "There are a lot of improvements taking place. The aim is to scale up and become more systematic in the IoE (Institute of Eminence) framework," said Rao.

To expand the international presence, the university has taken several steps, Rao said. A joint PhD program with the University of Queensland is receiving a favourable response and 65 candidates have entered the program this year, he mentioned. The director said that IIT Delhi has 3,300 PhD candidates and more than 60 percent of the 11,000 candidates it has, are either at the master's level or above. The interdisciplinary activities on campus, whether between departments and schools or with other institutions in Delhi, have also substantially increased, he added.

Future projects IIT Delhi is involved in

We are actively working with the National Institute of Immunology with the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and various other organizations in Delhi, such as the Indian Council for Agricultural Research,” Rao said. The director also talked about an extensive research park in IIT Delhi to enhance the link between business and foster innovation.

IIT Delhi's forthcoming satellite campus in Jajjhar (Haryana) will be a campus for life sciences and the college will work in collaboration with the biotech industry, he said. IIT Delhi is also planning to extend its work and education in the fields of artificial intelligence and blockchain, energy and climate, biological and health systems, smart and sustainable infrastructure, and habitat.

The institution was ranked 193 in the world and 47th in the WUR for engineering and technology in 2020, according to the QS World University Ranking (WUR).

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