All the faculty members at IIT Roorkee are PhD holders and have vast experience. The faculty-student ratio is about 1:3 at IIT Roorkee which is among the best in the country.
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The Institute has over three campuses namely a 365-acre campus at Roorkee, a 25-acre campus at Saharanpur, and a 10-acre campus of Greater Noida Extension Centre at Greater Noida. IIT Roorkee has 8,000+ students, hostels, clubs, sports facilities, guest houses, 10 boys' hostels, three girls' hostels, one coed hostel, and six married couples' hostels. The institute has UG, PG, Alaknanda clubs, and various other facilities for the students. IIT Roorkee's library has a collection of more than 3.20 Lakh documents, Online databases, CD-ROMs, standards, audio-video material, specifications, theses, reports, etc.
The library was established in 1848. The library is spread across an 85,000 sq. ft. area. It is a four-storeyed building. IIT Roorkee library has a rich collection of more than 3,20,000 documents, CD-ROMs, Online databases, audio-video material, standards, specifications, theses, reports etc. It also has access to more than 8000 electronic journals.
IIT Roorkee has 10 boy hostels, 3 girl hostels, and 6 hostels for married candidates. The campus has a new co-ed hostel, Vigyan Kunj. Hostels may accommodate Undergraduate and Postgraduate students, along with doctoral students. All the hostels have basic amenities like a cyber cafe, gym, Wi-Fi, water purifiers, common room, recreation room, mess, TV, laundry services, security and surveillance systems, etc. Students are assigned to hostels by the school administration after their freshman year. The hostels at IIT Roorkee are called Bhawans. Each Bhawan has a mess. Mess administration consists of a staff advisory, a chief advisory, and a student mess secretary. The hostel fee at IIT Roorkee ranges between INR 68,000 and INR 99,000. This annual hostel fee does not include mess charges.
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Answered a month ago
No, you cannot apply for B.Des programme at IIT Roorkee even if you have cleared the UCEED Entrance Exam because Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics are compulsory subjects in 10+2. But you can apply for B.Des programme at IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Hyderabad and IIT Indore.
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Answered a month ago
IIT Roorkee doesn't offer PhD in Design course through CEED. It only offers a MDes in Industrial Design. Admission to the M.Des programme will be based on CEED 2026 merit rank. The candidate will have to apply directly to the participating college once results are declared.
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Answered a month ago
Naveen K. Jain is a prominent Indian American serial entrepreneur & philanthropist graduating with an engineering degree from IIT Roorkee in 1979. After working at Microsoft he founded InfoSpace, Moon Express, Viome & many other companies. He is known for solving global challenges through innovation
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Utpal Borpujari is a National Award winning filmmaker, film critic &alumnus of IIT Roorkee. He is known for his work in Assamese cinema he directed critically acclaimed film Ishu which won 65th National Award for Best Assamese Film. He was also former journalist.
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Ajudhia Nath Khosla was a pioneering Indian civil engineer, Padma Vibhushan recipient & former Vice Chancellor of the University of Roorkee now IIT Roorkee. A 1916 alumnus of the same institution which was named as Thomason College of Civil Engineering, he modernised hydraulic engineering & served a
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The faculty members at IIT Roorkee are highly knowledgeable and also have high teaching skills. All the faculty members are PhD holders and have vast experience. IIT Roorkee faculty has been rated 4.1 out of 5 stars by 494 Shiksha verified users. According to students in the review section, the faculty members are among the best in their respective fields with some of them being ranked within the top 2% in the world by Harvard.