Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

The Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) is a public institute of technology in South Delhi, India, established in 1961 and ranked 118th in the world in the 2027 QS World University Rankings with a score of 64.5.德里理工学院（Indian Institute of Technology Delhi，简称 IITD）是位于印度新德里南部的公立理工学院，1961 年成立，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列世界第 118 位，综合得分 64.5。

It is one of the 23 Indian Institutes of Technology created as centres of excellence for the training, research and development of science, engineering and technology, and OpenAlex records 71,638 works with 3,159,357 citations.学校是印度为培养与研究理工科而设立的 23 所印度理工学院之一，OpenAlex 收录其学术成果 71,638 篇、总被引 3,159,357 次。

History

• The concept of the Indian Institutes of Technology was introduced by Nalini Ranjan Sarkar, a member of education on the Viceroy's executive council, who recommended in 1946 that such institutes be set up on the model of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.印度理工学院的构想由总督行政会议教育委员 Nalini Ranjan Sarkar 提出，他于 1946 年建议参照麻省理工学院在国内建立此类学院。

• Following his recommendations the first Indian Institute of Technology was established at Kharagpur in 1950, and the government then decided to create further institutes with the assistance of friendly countries, beginning with collaboration with the Soviet Union through UNESCO for an institute in Bombay.在其建议下，第一所印度理工学院于 1950 年在卡拉格普尔建立，政府随后决定借助友好国家援助增设同类学院，最早是通过联合国教科文组织与苏联合作筹建位于孟买的一所。

• Institutes of Technology followed at Madras, at Kanpur and at Delhi in collaboration with West Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom respectively, forming the set of institutes later constituted under the Institutes of Technology Act.此后先后在马德拉斯、坎伯与德里设立理工学院，分别与西德、美国和英国合作，这些学院后来依《理工学院法》统一建制。

• Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, laid the foundation stone of the college at Hauz Khas on 28 January 1959 during his visit to India, and the College of Engineering and Technology was registered as a society on 14 June 1960 under the Societies Registration Act.1959 年 1 月 28 日，爱丁堡公爵菲利普亲王访问印度期间为豪兹卡斯校址奠基，工程学院与技术学院于 1960 年 6 月 14 日依社团登记法注册为法人社团。

• Students were asked to report on 16 August 1961 and the college was formally inaugurated on 17 August 1961 by Humayun Kabir, Minister of Scientific Research and Cultural Affairs, with the first admissions made in the same year.学生于 1961 年 8 月 16 日报到，工程学院与技术学院于 8 月 17 日由科研与文化事务部长 Humayun Kabir 正式揭牌，首届招生亦在同年完成。

• Initially the college ran in the Kashmiri Gate campus of Delhi College of Engineering, now Delhi Technological University, before shifting to its permanent campus at Hauz Khas, with the Department of Textile Technology of Delhi College of Engineering relocated en bloc to mark the beginning of the new institution.学院最初在今德里技术大学前身——德里工程学院卡什米尔门校址办学，之后迁往豪兹卡斯永久校区，德里工程学院的纺织技术系整体划入，成为新校的起点。

• The college was later accorded university status with powers to decide its academic policy, conduct its examinations and award its degrees, and was renamed the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, a name it has carried since 1968.学院其后取得大学地位，拥有制定学术政策、组织考试与授予学位的权力，并更名为印度理工学院德里校区，这一名称自 1968 年沿用至今。

• Under the Institutes of Technology Amendment Act of 1963 the institute was decreed an institution of national importance, a status that placed it among the declared national institutions alongside similar campuses across India.依据 1963 年《理工学院修正法》，该校被认定为具有国家重要性的机构，与印度各地同类院校一道列入国立学院序列。

• The institute celebrated its golden jubilee in 2011 and its diamond jubilee in 2021, marking sixty years of operation since the first students arrived in 1961.学校于 2011 年举行金禧庆典，2021 年举行钻禧庆典，纪念自 1961 年首届学生入学以来的六十年历程。

• In 2018 IIT Delhi was among the first six institutes awarded the Institution of Eminence status, a designation that grants greater autonomy, including permission to admit foreign students up to 30 per cent of the total and to recruit foreign faculty up to 25 per cent of the faculty strength.2018 年，德里理工学院成为首批六所获评「卓越院校」的学院之一，该称号赋予学校更大自主权，包括外国学生录取比例可至 30%、外籍教师聘用比例可至 25%。

• In July 2023 the institute signed a memorandum of understanding to establish its first global campus in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, extending its footprint outside India.2023 年 7 月，学校签署谅解备忘录，在阿拉伯联合酋长国阿布扎比设立首个全球校区，将办学网络延伸至印度境外。

• In March 2018 a new Department of Design was inaugurated to strengthen teaching and research in design, housing a course that had run for twenty-five years under the Instrument Design and Development Centre and which began a Bachelor of Design programme in the academic year 2022-23.2018 年 3 月学校正式成立设计系，以加强设计教学与研究，将原在仪器设计与开发中心运行二十五年的课程纳入其中，并于 2022 至 2023 学年起开设设计学学士学位项目。

• Administration follows a common structure for all Indian Institutes of Technology, with the President of India as visitor at the top, the IIT Council and the board of governors beneath, and the director as the chief academic and executive officer assisted by a deputy director, deans and the registrar.学校沿用印度理工学院统一的组织架构，由印度总统任访问团首长，其下设理工学院理事会与校董会，校长为学术与行政最高负责人，并由副校长、各学部院长与注册主任协助。

• Sunita Williams, a retired NASA astronaut and United States Navy captain, visited the campus on 20 January 2026 to deliver the inaugural lecture of the Prof. V. N. Vazirani Institute Lecture series.2026 年 1 月 20 日，退役的美国国家航空航天局宇航员兼海军上校 Sunita Williams 访问校园，作 V. N. Vazirani 研究所讲座的首场演讲。

• The collaboration agreements behind the institute were arranged with three different partner countries, with West Germany for the campus at Madras, the United States for Kanpur and the United Kingdom for Delhi, a pattern that shaped the early curriculum and staffing of every Indian Institute of Technology.各校的合作协议分别与三个不同国家签订：马德拉斯校区对应西德、坎伯校区对应美国、德里校区对应英国，这一格局影响了印度理工学院早期的课程设置与人员配备。

• Enrollment at the institute has grown steadily, and by the mid two thousand and twenties it supported 12,543 students with 687 academic staff, a scale that places it among the larger technological institutes in India.学校规模持续增长，到 2020 年代中期已支持 12,543 名学生与 687 名教学人员，在印度同类技术学院中属规模较大者。

• The institute is governed under the common structure of the Indian Institutes of Technology, with the President of India as visitor, the IIT Council and the board of governors above the director, who is assisted by a deputy director, the deans and the registrar.学校按印度理工学院的统一架构治理，印度总统任访问团首长，理工学院理事会与校董会居于校长之上，校长由副校长、各学部院长与注册主任协助开展工作。

• Golden jubilee celebrations were held in 2011 and diamond jubilee celebrations in 2021, marking the sixtieth year since the first students enrolled in 1961, and the institute marked the anniversaries with alumni gatherings and academic symposia.学校于 2011 年举行金禧庆典，2021 年举行钻禧庆典，纪念自 1961 年首批学生入学以来的六十年，并以校友聚会与学术研讨会纪念周年。

Academics

• The institute offers Bachelor of Technology programmes in numerous fields together with dual degree B.Tech. and M.Tech. programmes, with admission to the undergraduate programmes conducted through the Joint Entrance Examination Advanced.学校在多个领域提供工学学士学位项目与工学学士兼工学硕士双学位项目，本科项目通过联合入学考试（高级）招生。

• Postgraduate study includes the M.Tech. by coursework, the M.S. by research, the M.Sc., the Master of Design and the MBA, admitted respectively through the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering, the Joint Admission Test for Masters, the Common Entrance Examination for Design and the Common Admission Test.研究生项目包括课程型工学硕士、研究型理学硕士、理学硕士、设计硕士与工商管理硕士，分别通过工程学研究生入学考试、硕士联合入学考试、设计专业共同入学考试与工商管理硕士入学考试录取。

• Four externally funded schools operate as part of the institute, namely the Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology and Management, the Amar Nath and Shashi Khosla School of Information Technology, the Yardi School of Artificial Intelligence and the Kusuma School of Biological Sciences.学校设有四所校外资助学院，包括婆罗地电信技术与管理学院、Amar Nath 与 Shashi Khosla 信息技术学院、Yardi 人工智能学院与 Kusuma 生物科学学院。

• Above these sit the Centre of Excellence in Cyber Systems and Information Assurance, the School of Public Policy and the School of Interdisciplinary Research, which broaden the range of research areas beyond the engineering departments.其上还有网络系统与信息安全卓越中心、公共政策学院与交叉研究学院，使研究方向在工程系之外进一步拓展。

• The institute reported 12,543 students, of whom 4,971 were undergraduates, 3,568 postgraduates and 4,004 doctoral candidates, supported by 687 academic staff.学校报告在校生 12,543 人，其中本科生 4,971 人、研究生 3,568 人、博士生 4,004 人，专任教学人员 687 人。

• Its endowment stood at 375 million rupees in 2022 and the institutional budget for 2025-26 was 904.91 million rupees, reflecting the scale of its research and teaching operation.学校 2022 年捐赠基金为 3.75 亿卢比，2025 至 2026 年度机构预算为 9.0491 亿卢比，体现其科研与教学体量。

• Design has grown into a full department with a dedicated Bachelor of Design programme launched in 2022-23, having previously been taught for twenty-five years within the Instrument Design and Development Centre.设计学科已发展为独立建系的完整专业，并于 2022 至 2023 学年开设计计学学士学位，此前该课程在仪器设计与开发中心已开设二十五年。

• Engineering and technology remain the core strength of the institute, and in the QS World University Rankings by Subject for 2026 it was placed thirty-sixth worldwide in engineering and technology.工程与技术仍是学校的核心强项，在 2026 年 QS 学科排名中，其工程与技术学科位列全球第三十六位。

• The Technology Business Incubator Unit has operated actively since 2000, selecting start-ups each year into its incubation programme and providing support to create innovative technology companies.科技企业孵化中心自 2000 年起持续运行，每年遴选初创企业进入孵化计划，为其创办创新型科技公司提供支持。

• The institute also runs externally funded research centres and a supercomputing facility, and its alumni body includes founders of Flipkart and other technology companies who returned as investors and researchers.学校另设校外资助的研究中心与超算设施，其校友中包括 Flipkart 等科技企业的创办人，他们后来以投资者与研究者身份回到学校。

• The Student Affairs Council is described as the apex student body, with the Board for Student Welfare responsible for welfare activities, financial aid to students in need and the sports domain, including the institute's participation in the annual Inter-IIT Sports Meet.学生事务委员会被列为学生组织最高机构，学生福利委员会负责福利活动、向困难学生提供经济资助以及体育事务，并组织学校参加印度理工学院际运动会。

• The Co-curricular and Academic Interaction Council has forty-five representatives, twenty-two from undergraduate and twenty-three from postgraduate students, and oversees clubs in robotics, entrepreneurship and automobile engineering, the last comprising Formula SAE, Mini Baja and HPV teams.课外与学术交流委员会共有 45 名代表，其中本科生 22 名、研究生 23 名，负责机器人、创业发展与汽车工程等社团事务，汽车社团下设 Formula SAE、Mini Baja 与 HPV 车队。

• The ACM student chapter of the institute was established in 2002 to serve the computing community beyond coursework, won the ACM Student Chapter Excellence Award for outstanding activities in 2009-10, and in 2012 a team of Rudradev Basak, Nikhil Garg and Pradeep Mathias achieved India's best rank at the ACM ICPC World Finals, finishing eighteenth.学校 ACM 学生分会于 2002 年成立，旨在服务课程之外的计算社群，因 2009 至 2010 年度的突出活动获 ACM 学生分会优秀奖；2012 年由 Rudradev Basak、Nikhil Garg 与 Pradeep Mathias 组成的队伍在 ACM ICPC 世界总决赛中取得印度最佳成绩，位列第 18 名。

• Admission is governed nationally, with the Joint Entrance Examination Advanced selecting undergraduates and the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering, Joint Admission Test for Masters, Common Entrance Examination for Design and Common Admission Test governing postgraduate entry to engineering, science, design and management programmes respectively.招生工作由全国统一考试决定，本科通过联合入学考试（高级）选拔，研究生工程、理学、设计与管理类专业则分别通过工程学研究生入学考试、硕士联合入学考试、设计专业共同入学考试与工商管理硕士入学考试录取。

Campus

• The main campus lies in Hauz Khas in South Delhi and covers about 325 acres, or 1.3 square kilometres, bounded on the east by Sri Aurobindo Marg, on the west by the Jawaharlal Nehru University complex, on the south by the National Council of Educational Research and Training and on the north by the New Ring Road.主校区位于新德里南部豪兹卡斯，占地约 325 英亩，约合 1.3 平方公里，东临斯里·奥罗宾多路，西接贾瓦哈拉尔· Nehru 大学城，南邻国家教育研究与培训委员会，北靠新环路。

• The campus is flanked by heritage landmarks including the Qutub Minar and the Hauz Khas monuments, and stands close to institutions such as Jawaharlal Nehru University, the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, the National Institute of Fashion Technology, NCERT and the Indian Statistical Institute.校区毗邻库图布塔与豪兹卡斯古迹，邻近贾瓦哈拉尔·尼赫鲁大学、印度国际贸易学院、国家时装技术学院、国家教育研究与培训委员会与印度统计研究所等机构。

• The site is divided into four zones, a student residential zone, a faculty and staff residential zone, a recreational area containing the Student Activity Centre, a football stadium, a cricket ground, basketball courts, a hockey field, lawn tennis courts and a swimming pool, and an academic zone of department offices, lecture theatres, the Central Library and workshops.校园分为四个功能区：学生住宿区、教师与职工住宿区、包含学生活动中心的休闲区（含足球场、板球场、篮球场、曲棍球场、草地网球场与游泳池），以及由系办公室、阶梯教室、中央图书馆与实验工坊组成的教学区。

• The student residential zone comprises fourteen hostels named after mountain ranges in India, divided into a sector of eleven boys' hostels and a sector of three girls' hostels.学生住宿区由十四栋以印度山脉命名的宿舍楼组成，划分为十一栋男生宿舍与三栋女生宿舍两个片区。

• A satellite campus at Sonipat in Haryana was unveiled in April 2018 at the Technopark of Rajiv Gandhi Education City by the Chief Minister of Haryana, at a cost of 175 million rupees for the Technopark, and focuses on executive and faculty development for the engineering colleges of the state.位于哈里亚纳邦索尼帕特的卫星校区于 2018 年 4 月在拉吉夫·甘地教育城科技园由该邦首席部长揭牌，科技园耗资 1.75 亿卢比，重点面向本邦工程学院开展管理培训与师资发展。

• The Sonipat site can incubate and house one hundred start-ups and includes research and development laboratories set up with companies, business incubators, the Impact Lab for Path global health hub, a smart manufacturing centre of excellence and a high-end central research facility.索尼帕特校区可孵化并容纳 100 家初创企业，设有与企业共建的研发实验室、企业孵化器、「Impact Lab for Path」全球健康创新平台、智能制造卓越中心与高端中央研究设施。

• A second satellite campus at Jhajjar in Haryana, next to the campus of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, hosts a biomedical research park being established jointly with that institute, funded by IIT Delhi and managed by the Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer.第二个卫星校区位于哈里亚纳邦贾尔，与全印医学科学研究所校区相邻，共建生物医学研究园区，由德里理工学院出资、创业创新与技术转让基金会管理。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings IIT Delhi is placed 118th in the world with a score of 64.5.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，德里理工学院位居世界第 118 位，综合得分 64.5。

• The institute did not enter the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, so it carries no placement in that edition of the list.该校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，在该版榜单中没有名次。

• In the 2026-2027 edition of the U.S. News Best Global Universities the institute is placed 703rd.在 2026 至 2027 年度美国新闻与世界报道最佳全球大学排名中，该校位居第 703 位。

• OpenAlex attributes 71,638 works and 3,159,357 citations to the institute, a research record consistent with its standing as one of India's leading engineering and technology institutions.OpenAlex 为该校记录学术成果 71,638 篇、总被引 3,159,357 次，与其作为印度一流工程与技术机构的地位相符。

• Under the Indian National Institutional Ranking Framework of 2023 the institute ranked third in the overall category, third among research institutions, second among engineering colleges and fifth among management schools, and in the 2024 edition it held fourth in the overall category and second in the engineering category.在 2023 年印度国家院校排名框架中，该校综合类第 3、研究机构第 3、工学院第 2、管理学院第 5；2024 年度综合类第 4、工程类第 2。

• The institute has no Nobel Prize, Turing Award or Fields Medal laureate among its graduates or faculty, and its highest honours are national and professional distinctions such as election to the Indian National Science Academy and the Indian Academy of Sciences.学校毕业生与教师中尚无诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖得主，其所获最高荣誉为当选印度国家科学院与印度科学院院士等国家与专业层面的荣誉。

• In 2006 Times Higher Education placed all the Indian Institutes of Technology third among the world's top technology universities, a collective ranking that has long underpinned the reputation of the system.2006 年泰晤士高等教育将全部印度理工学院并列列为世界顶尖技术大学第三名，这一集体排名长期支撑着该系统的声誉。

• In the QS World University Rankings by Subject for 2026 the institute ranked thirty-sixth worldwide in engineering and technology, and it ranked first in India in the QS World University Rankings 2027.在 2026 年 QS 学科排名中，该校工程与技术学科位列全球第 36 位，并在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位居印度第一。

Student life

• The institute has no separate motto, and its institutional identity rests instead on the Indian Institutes of Technology system of which it forms a part.学校没有单独的校训，其机构认同依托于作为其组成部分的印度理工学院体系。

• Residential life is organised through the fourteen mountain-named hostels, with eleven for men and three for women, arranged in separate sectors of the residential zone of the campus.住宿生活由十四栋以山脉命名的宿舍楼组织，其中十一栋为男生宿舍、三栋为女生宿舍，分设于校区住宿区的不同片区。

• Recreation is concentrated around the Student Activity Centre and its sports grounds, including a football stadium, a cricket ground, a hockey field, lawn tennis courts and a swimming pool used by campus clubs and the sports board.休闲活动集中在学生活动中心及其运动场地，包括足球场、板球场、曲棍球场、草地网球场与游泳池，供校内社团与体育管理机构使用。

• Rendezvous, the annual cultural festival, was originally started in 1976 and is held over four days every October, and the 2019 edition hosted more than 280 events with over 15,000 participants and some 200 artists from more than 25 countries.年度文化节 Rendezvous 创办于 1976 年，每年 10 月举行，为期四天；2019 年的一届设置了 280 多项活动，参与者超过 15,000 人，来自 25 个以上国家的约 200 位艺人参加。

• Tryst, the technical festival organised by the student community, is the largest science, technology and management festival in North India, running more than seventy-five events that attract close to 40,000 students from across the country.由学生组织承办的年度科技节 Tryst 是北印度规模最大的科学、技术与管理盛会，设置 75 项以上活动，每年吸引全国近 40,000 名学生参加。

• Speranza, organised by the Board for Student Welfare, is the annual youth festival of the institute, while Sportech, run by the same board, is the annual sports festival, and the institute also takes part in the Inter-IIT Sports Meet.学生福利委员会主办年度青年节 Speranza，同一机构还举办年度体育节 Sportech，学校同时参加印度理工学院际运动会。

• The Student Affairs Council is the apex student body, addressing student welfare and infrastructure concerns, and the Co-curricular and Academic Interaction Council with forty-five representatives from undergraduate and postgraduate students runs the robotics, entrepreneurship and automobile clubs.学生事务委员会是学生组织最高机构，负责学生福利与设施事务；课外与学术交流委员会由本科生与研究生代表共 45 人组成，下设机器人、创业发展与汽车等社团。

Notable people

• Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, laid the foundation stone of the college at Hauz Khas on 28 January 1959 and is recorded as a founding patron of the institution.爱丁堡公爵菲利普亲王于 1959 年 1 月 28 日为豪兹卡斯校址奠基，是学校创建过程中的重要奠基人物。

• Nalini Ranjan Sarkar, member of education on the Viceroy's executive council, proposed the system of Indian Institutes of Technology modelled on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the first of them opened at Kharagpur in 1950.总督行政会议教育委员 Nalini Ranjan Sarkar 参照麻省理工学院提出设立印度理工学院体系的建议，首所学院于 1950 年在卡拉格普尔开办。

• Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, studied electrical engineering at the institute and went on to build Khosla Ventures, and he is among the best known entrepreneurs in its alumni.太阳微系统公司联合创办人 Vinod Khosla 在此攻读电气工程，后创办 Khosla Ventures，是该校最知名的企业家校友之一。

• Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, who co-founded Flipkart, both graduated from the institute and built the online retail company into one of the largest start-ups in India.印度电商企业 Flipkart 的联合创办人 Sachin Bansal 与 Binny Bansal 均毕业于该校，并将该公司发展为印度最大的初创企业之一。

• Raghuram Rajan, the economist who served as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, studied at the institute before pursuing economics at Cambridge and Harvard.曾任印度储备银行行长的经济学家 Raghuram Rajan 曾在此就读，其后赴剑桥与哈佛深造经济学。

• Kiran Bedi, the first woman officer of the Indian Police Service and a former Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, is an alumna of the institute.印度警察系统首位女性警官、曾任德里副总督的 Kiran Bedi 是该校校友。

• Shrinivas Kulkarni, the astronomer known for work on large-scale numerical simulation of the universe, is an alumnus of the institute.以大规模宇宙数值模拟研究著称的天文学家 Shrinivas Kulkarni 是该校校友。

• Bhupendra Nath Goswami, physicist and founder director of the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, and Sunil Wadhwani, co-founder of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, both studied at the institute.物理学家、萨哈核物理研究所首任所长 Bhupendra Nath Goswami，以及细胞与分子生物学中心的共同创办人 Sunil Wadhwani，均曾在该校求学。

• Deepinder Goyal, co-founder of the food delivery platform Zomato, and Nitin Seth, founder of the payments company FreeCharge, are alumni who built technology businesses in India.餐饮配送平台 Zomato 联合创办人 Deepinder Goyal 与支付企业 FreeCharge 创办人 Nitin Seth，都是在校期间起步并在国内创办科技企业的校友。

• Subramanian Swamy, economist and former minister in the government of India, taught at the institute after a career in economics in the United States.经济学家、印度政府前部长 Subramanian Swamy 在美国从事经济学研究后，曾到该校任教。

• Sudarshan Bharti, the television producer known for the long-running programme Ramayan, and the actor Amardeo Sarma have both been associated with the institute as students.以长篇剧集《Ramayan》闻名的电视制作人 Sudarshan Bharti 与演员 Amardeo Sarma 都曾作为学生就读于该校。

• Vinod Khosla also seeded the institute's incubation activity, and the Technology Business Incubator Unit that has run since 2000 remains one of the earliest such units in the Indian university system.Vinod Khosla 亦为学校的孵化业务提供支持，自 2000 年运行的科技企业孵化中心是印度高校体系中最早的一批同类机构。