Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

The Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, also called IIT Hyderabad or IITH, is a public technical university at Kandi near the Sangareddy district of Telangana, in southern India, and an Institute of National Importance.印度理工学院海得拉巴校区（Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad，简称 IIT Hyderabad 或 IITH）是印度南部特伦甘纳邦桑加雷达迪县坎迪的一所公立技术大学，属国家重要学府。

It was established under the Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Act and began teaching in 2008, and it is one of five Indian Institutes of Technology notified as Institutions of Eminence.该校依《技术学院（修正）法》设立，2008 年开始办学，并且是被认定为首批「卓越学府」的五所印度理工学院之一。

It is a small, research-intensive institute with 5,790 students in August 2025, of whom about 60 per cent are postgraduate or doctoral, and 330 or more full-time faculty, and in the QS World University Rankings 2027 it was placed 588th.该校是一所规模较小、研究密集的学院，2025 年 8 月在校学生 5790 人，其中约 60% 为研究生或博士生，全职教师 330 人以上；在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 588 名。

History

• IIT Hyderabad was established under the Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Act, 2011, which was passed by the Lok Sabha on 24 March 2011 and by the Rajya Sabha on 30 April 2012.印度理工学院海得拉巴校区依 2011 年《技术学院（修正）法》设立，该法于 2011 年 3 月 24 日由人民院通过、2012 年 4 月 30 日由联邦院通过。
• The institute began functioning on 18 August 2008 from a temporary campus at the Ordnance Factory Medak, with Professor U. B. Desai as its founding director.该学院于 2008 年 8 月 18 日在梅达克兵工厂的临时校区开始运作，由 U. B. Desai 教授担任创校校长。
• It was set up with technical and financial assistance from the Government of Japan, a partnership that later continued in projects such as the Indo-Japanese DISANET disaster-mitigation programme.该校在设立时获得日本政府的技术与资金援助，这一合作后来延续到印日「DISANET」减灾项目等计划之中。
• Like all Indian Institutes of Technology, IIT Hyderabad is an Institute of National Importance, and it is one of five IITs notified as Institutions of Eminence.与所有印度理工学院一样，该校属国家重要学府，并且是被认定为首批「卓越学府」的五所印度理工学院之一。
• The founding director U. B. Desai built the institute from scratch, hiring 170 faculty members all holding doctorates and establishing fourteen departments covering engineering, the sciences, design and the liberal arts.创校校长 U. B. Desai 从零开始建设这所学院，聘得 170 名拥有博士学位的教师，并设立覆盖工程、理学、设计与人文的 14 个系。
• In 2012 the former President of India A. P. J. Abdul Kalam floated a course entitled "Empowering 3 billion" at the institute, one of several courses offered by industry and professionals.2012 年，印度前总统 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 在该校开设了名为「赋能三十亿人」的课程，这是由产业界与专业人士开设的若干课程之一。
• In July 2015 the institute moved from its temporary home to its 576-acre permanent campus at Kandi in the Sangareddy district of Telangana.2015 年 7 月，该校从临时校址迁入位于特伦甘纳邦桑加雷达迪县坎迪的 576 英亩永久校区。
• In 2018 the Government of India sanctioned a Research Park to several IITs, of which IIT Hyderabad obtained one, in order to strengthen cooperation between the institute and industry.2018 年印度政府批准为若干印度理工学院设立研究园，该校获得其中之一，以加强与产业界的合作。
• In March 2019 the first phase of the permanent campus was completed, comprising 25 lakh square feet of buildings, three academic blocks and ten functioning hostel buildings each with a capacity of 200.2019 年 3 月，永久校区一期工程完成，包括 25 万平方英尺建筑、3 座教学楼与 10 座可用宿舍楼，每座可容纳 200 人。
• In August 2019 the Bachelor of Design programme began with ten seats admitted through the Undergraduate Common Entrance Examination for Design.2019 年 8 月，设计学士项目启动，通过设计本科共同入学考试录取 10 名学生。
• In 2019 the institute also began offering a Master of Arts in Development Studies, extending its teaching beyond engineering and the natural sciences.2019 年，该校还开始开设发展研究文学硕士项目，把教学领域拓展到工程与自然科学之外。
• On 26 August 2019 Professor B. S. Murty, a metallurgical engineer, took charge as director of the institute.2019 年 8 月 26 日，冶金工程师 B. S. Murty 教授就任该校校长。
• On 4 February 2022 the Technology Research Park, with a built-up area of 19,560 square metres, was inaugurated by Srivari Chandrasekhar, secretary of the Department of Science and Technology.2022 年 2 月 4 日，建筑面积 19560 平方米的技术研究园由科技部秘书 Srivari Chandrasekhar 主持启用。
• The institute celebrated its fifteenth Foundation Day in the academic year 2023-24, fifteen years after teaching began in 2008.该校于 2023-24 学年迎来第十五届建校纪念日，距 2008 年首次开课已过去十五年。
• Between 2013 and 2017 IIT Hyderabad, together with IIT Kanpur, filled all of its seats in the Joint Entrance Examination admissions, a mark of its popularity among applicants.2013 至 2017 年间，该校与坎普尔理工学院一样在联合入学考试招生中全部名额录满，显示其在考生中的受欢迎程度。
• On 20 June 2025 Professor Murty was reappointed director for a further term, continuing the leadership that began in 2019.2025 年 6 月 20 日，Murty 教授获续任校长，延续自 2019 年开始的领导任期。
• IIT Hyderabad was the first IIT to introduce a Bachelor of Technology programme in Artificial Intelligence, an innovation later echoed in India's national engineering curriculum.该校是首个开设人工智能技术学士项目的印度理工学院，这一创新后来在印度全国工程教育中得到呼应。
• Its teaching has grown from a handful of programmes to eighteen departments and schools, including a School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship named after Dr B. V. R. Mohan Reddy and a Greenko School of Sustainability.其教学从最初的少数项目发展到 18 个系与学院，包括以 B. V. R. Mohan Reddy 博士命名的创新与创业学院，以及 Greenko 可持续发展学院。
• Its governance follows the common IIT structure, with the President of India at the top, then the IIT Council, the board of governors, the director, the deputy director and the deans and heads of departments.其治理遵循印度理工学院的通用结构：最上层为印度总统，其次为印度理工学院理事会、各校董事会、校长、副校长，再到各院系负责人。
• Its research has produced India's first 5G patent, a method for removing fluoride from water using naturally occurring Jamun seeds and a constant drug-delivery system delivered through a skin patch.其研究产出了印度首项 5G 专利、利用天然蒲桃籽去除水中氟化物的方法，以及通过皮肤贴片实现恒定给药的系统。

Academics

• The institute has eighteen departments, covering artificial intelligence, biomedical engineering, biotechnology and bioinformatics, chemical engineering, climate change, civil engineering, computer science and engineering, electrical engineering, engineering science, heritage science and technology, materials science and metallurgical engineering, mechanical and aerospace engineering.该校设有 18 个系，涵盖人工智能、生物医学工程、生物技术与生物信息学、化学工程、气候变化、土木工程、计算机科学与工程、电气工程、工程科学、遗产科学与技术、材料科学与冶金工程、机械与航空航天工程。
• Its science departments are mathematics, physics and chemistry, and its liberal arts, design and management departments are liberal arts, design, and entrepreneurship and management.其理学类系为数学、物理与化学；人文、设计与管理类系为人文学科、设计，以及创业与管理。
• Alongside the departments it runs the Greenko School of Sustainability, the Centre for Interdisciplinary Programs and the Dr B. V. R. Mohan Reddy School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.除各系之外，该校还设有 Greenko 可持续发展学院、跨学科项目中心，以及以 B. V. R. Mohan Reddy 博士命名的创新与创业学院。
• In August 2025 the institute had 5,790 students across undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programmes, with about 60 per cent of them in postgraduate or doctoral study.2025 年 8 月，该校在本科、硕士与博士项目中共有学生 5790 人，其中约 60% 攻读研究生或博士学位。
• More than 330 full-time faculty teach and research at the institute, giving it a low student-to-staff ratio by Indian standards.该校有 330 多名全职教师从事教学与研究，按印度标准师生比相当低。
• IIT Hyderabad has 110 laboratories on its campus, of which 50 are used exclusively for research, and more than 80 per cent of the faculty hold at least one sponsored research or consulting project.该校校园内设有 110 个实验室，其中 50 个专用于研究；八成以上教师至少主持一项受资助的研究或咨询项目。
• Its researchers have produced more than 7,246 research publications and patent disclosures and 1,668 sponsored or consultancy projects, together with extensive industry collaboration.其研究人员已产出 7246 项以上研究论文与专利披露、1668 个受资助或咨询项目，并与产业界展开广泛合作。
• The institute's research projects number more than 5,040 and are worth over 1,600 crore rupees, with 335 crore rupees of funding in 2024-25, about one crore per faculty member.该校科研项目超过 5040 项、总值逾 160 亿卢比，2024-25 年度到账经费 33.5 亿卢比，约合每位教师 1000 万卢比。
• A Bachelor of Technology degree requires 125 to 130 credits over four years, and students may add a second major of 24 credits over five years or a minor of 12 credits.技术学士学位需在四年内修满 125 至 130 学分；学生可在五年内追加 24 学分的第二主修，或 12 学分的辅修。
• Postgraduate teaching includes regular Master of Technology degrees in about forty programmes, Master of Design degrees, Master of Science degrees in three subjects and online Master of Technology and Master of Design degrees in eight programmes.研究生教学包括约 40 个项目的常规技术硕士、设计硕士、3 个学科的科学硕士，以及 8 个项目的在线技术硕士与设计硕士。
• The institute uses a Fractal Academic System with continuous evaluation of students and elective baskets that give them choices beyond their core area, and undergraduate degrees require 125 to 130 credits.该校采用「分形学术体系」，对学生持续评估，并以选修课程组赋予核心领域之外的选择自由；本科学位需修满 125 至 130 学分。
• Liberal arts and creative arts courses include macroeconomics, psychology, Sanskrit, Japanese, French and German, Carnatic and Western classical music, theatre, pottery, Indian classical dance and Madhubani painting.人文与创意艺术课程包括宏观经济学、心理学、梵语、日语、法语与德语，卡纳提克与西方古典音乐、戏剧、陶艺、印度古典舞蹈与马杜巴尼绘画。
• The veena course is taught by the Grammy Award winner and Padma Bhushan awardee Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, and industry courses have included PCB design taught by Renesas Electronics.维纳琴课程由格莱美奖与莲花装勋章得主 Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt 授课；产业课程曾包括由瑞萨电子讲授的印制电路板设计。
• Admission to Bachelor of Technology programmes is through the Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced) for 595 seats, while Master of Technology admission requires a GATE score and Master of Science admission a JAM score.技术学士项目通过联合入学考试（高级）招收 595 名学生；技术硕士入学需 GATE 成绩，科学硕士入学需 JAM 成绩。
• Placements are strong: in the 2025-2026 season the maximum offer was 2.5 crore rupees a year internationally and 1.68 crore rupees domestically, with an average above 3 million rupees a year in the first phase and 24 international offers among undergraduates.其就业表现强劲：2025-2026 招聘季国际最高年薪 2500 万卢比、国内最高 1680 万卢比，第一阶段平均年薪逾 300 万卢比，本科生还获得 24 个国际录用通知。
• In the 2024-2025 season 617 students were placed on campus with an average annual compensation of 2.081 million rupees and a maximum of 6.613 million rupees, while in 2023-2024, 493 students were placed with an average of 2.25 million rupees and a maximum of 9 million rupees.2024-2025 招聘季有 617 名学生在校内就业，平均年薪 208.1 万卢比、最高 661.3 万卢比；2023-2024 招聘季有 493 人就业，平均年薪 225 万卢比、最高 900 万卢比。
• The iTIC Incubator, the Centre for Healthcare Entrepreneurship, the Fabless Chip Design Incubator and the Design Innovation Centre support student and faculty start-ups at the institute, and several members of the faculty are fellows of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and of the Indian Academy of Sciences.该校的 iTIC 孵化器、医疗健康创业中心、无厂芯片设计孵化器与设计创新中心，为学生与教师的创业提供支持；另有数位教师是印度国家工程院与印度科学院的院士。

Campus

• The permanent campus at Kandi covers 576 acres (234 hectares) in the Sangareddy district of Telangana, about 15 kilometres from the Outer Ring Road and beside National Highway 65.坎迪的永久校区占地 576 英亩（234 公顷），位于特伦甘纳邦桑加雷达迪县，距外环路约 15 公里，紧邻 65 号国道。
• The academic building was designed by the New Delhi practice ARCOP, while the hostels, lecture hall and academic departments were designed by the American architect Christopher Charles Benninger of Pune.教学主楼由新德里的 ARCOP 事务所设计，宿舍、讲堂与教学院系则由驻浦那的美国建筑师 Christopher Charles Benninger 设计。
• This organic campus is divided into clusters of buildings completed in phases from 2011, and it is one of India's best examples of energy-efficient, carbon-neutral and sustainable architecture.这一有机式校园由若干建筑群组成，自 2011 年起分期建成，是印度节能、碳中和与可持续建筑的最佳范例之一。
• The design grew out of the local weather conditions and was arranged to enhance learning, separating graduate and postgraduate programmes and segregating girls' and boys' hostels for a pluralistic environment.其设计源于当地气候条件，并以促进学习为目的进行布局，研究生与本科生项目分区、男女生宿舍分隔，营造多元环境。
• Most students live in twenty-three hostel buildings on campus, six of which accommodate female students exclusively.多数学生住在校园内的 23 座宿舍楼中，其中 6 座专供女生居住。
• First-year undergraduates are usually allotted double-sharing rooms while other students receive single-occupancy rooms, and students are given complimentary high-speed fibre-optic internet and radiant-cooled rooms.一年级本科生通常分配双人间，其他学生则住单人间；学生可免费使用高速光纤互联网，宿舍还采用辐射制冷。
• Dining facilities are located in centralised halls, and bedrooms are assigned at the time of admission for the remainder of a student's stay.餐饮设施设于集中式食堂，宿舍房间在入学时分配，通常供学生在校期间一直使用。
• Phase 1A of the campus, completed in March 2019, delivered 25 lakh square feet of buildings, three academic blocks and ten hostel buildings with a capacity of 200 each.该校区一期工程于 2019 年 3 月完成，交付 25 万平方英尺建筑、3 座教学楼与 10 座各容纳 200 人的宿舍楼。
• The IIT Hyderabad Technology Research Park, with a built-up area of 19,560 square metres, was inaugurated on 4 February 2022 and helps firms to set up research facilities and draw on the institute's expertise.印度理工学院海得拉巴技术研究园建筑面积 19560 平方米，于 2022 年 2 月 4 日启用，帮助企业设立研究设施并借用该校的专业力量。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 IIT Hyderabad was placed 588th in the world.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，印度理工学院海得拉巴校区位列世界第 588 名。^[1]
• The institute does not enter the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027.该校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名。
• In the U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking for 2026-2027 the institute is ranked 1322nd in the world.在 2026-2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列世界第 1322 名。
• The institute does not enter the main table of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.该校未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。
• OpenAlex attributes about 16,251 scholarly works and 577,259 citations to the institute, a strong output for a university founded only in 2008.OpenAlex 把约 16251 项学术成果与 577259 次引用归于该校，对一所仅创办于 2008 年的大学而言产出可观。
• In the National Institutional Ranking Framework 2025 the institute was ranked seventh among Indian engineering institutes, twelfth overall and among the top six for innovation.在 2025 年印度国家机构排名框架中，该校位列印度工程院校第 7 名、综合第 12 名，创新维度进入前 6。
• In the QS World University Rankings 2026 the institute stood 664th in the world and among the top ten per cent of institutions globally in citations per faculty.在 2026 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校位列世界第 664 名，其师均引用指标位居全球前 10%。
• Its research record includes more than 7,246 publications and patent disclosures, 1,668 sponsored or consultancy projects and projects worth over 1,600 crore rupees.其研究记录包括 7246 项以上论文与专利披露、1668 个受资助或咨询项目，以及总值逾 160 亿卢比的项目。
• The institute is an Institute of National Importance and one of five Indian Institutes of Technology notified as Institutions of Eminence, a status that recognises its research ambition.该校属国家重要学府，并且是被认定为首批「卓越学府」的五所印度理工学院之一，这一身份肯定了其研究抱负。

Student life

• The institute has no formal Latin motto, and its identity as a young, innovation-driven IIT is expressed through its curriculum experiments and its annual festival.该校没有正式的拉丁文校训，其作为年轻、以创新驱动的印度理工学院的身份，体现在课程试验与年度文化节上。
• Elan and ηVision is the annual techno-cultural festival of IIT Hyderabad and the largest college festival in South India, with the first edition of Elan in 2009 and ηVision an annual inter-institute technical festival since 2011.「Elan 与 ηVision」是该学院的年度科技文化节，也是南印度规模最大的高校文化节；首届 Elan 于 2009 年举办，ηVision 则自 2011 年起成为年度校际技术节。
• Since 2016 the two events have been merged into a single annual festival, which attracts a footfall of about 15,000 people across more than 400 colleges and hosts more than 60 events.2016 年起两者合并为单一年度文化节，吸引 400 多所院校约 15000 人次参与，并举办 60 多场活动。
• The pronites are the star attractions of Elan and ηVision, and past editions have seen performances by Shirley Setia, Benny Dayal, Kailash Kher, Darshan Raval and Divine, as well as shows by the comedian Zakir Khan.夜晚演出是「Elan 与 ηVision」的亮点，往届曾请来 Shirley Setia、Benny Dayal、Kailash Kher、Darshan Raval 与 Divine 登台，喜剧演员 Zakir Khan 也曾献演。
• Each year the festival promotes a social cause to raise awareness, and the ninth edition was graced by the actor Vijay Deverakonda for an eco-friendly world campaign.该文化节每年推动一项社会公益以唤起关注；第九届由演员 Vijay Deverakonda 出席，为环保世界宣传活动助力。
• The Student Gymkhana Council, elected by the student community, leads the clubs and cells across the institute.由学生群体选举产生的学生自治会理事会，领导全校的学生社团与小组。
• Creative arts are conducted outside class hours, mostly at weekends and in the evenings, so that students can combine technical study with music, dance, theatre and craft.创意艺术课程安排在上课时间之外，多在周末与晚间进行，使学生能把技术学习与音乐、舞蹈、戏剧及手工艺结合起来。
• Students have complimentary high-speed fibre-optic internet in the hostels, and the radiant-cooled rooms add to comfort in the hot Telangana climate.学生在宿舍可免费使用高速光纤互联网，辐射制冷的房间也有助于缓解特伦甘纳的炎热气候。
• The campus at Kandi lies north-west of Hyderabad, the capital of Telangana, and students reach the metropolitan city and its industry by the Outer Ring Road and National Highway 65, which runs beside the campus.坎迪校区位于特伦甘纳首府海得拉巴的西北方，学生经外环路与紧邻校区的 65 号国道即可通达这座大都市及其产业区。
• The wider Hyderabad region also hosts other technical institutions such as the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University and the National Institute of Technology Warangal, while the institute itself maintains collaborations with leading universities in the United States, Japan and Australia.海得拉巴周边地区还设有贾瓦哈拉尔·尼赫鲁理工大学与瓦朗加尔国立技术学院等其他技术院校；该校自身则与美国、日本与澳大利亚的知名大学保持合作。

Notable people

• U. B. Desai was the founding director of IIT Hyderabad from 2008, building the institute from scratch and hiring 170 faculty members holding doctorates.U. B. Desai 自 2008 年起担任该校创校校长，从零建设这所学院并聘得 170 名拥有博士学位的教师。
• B. S. Murty, a distinguished metallurgical engineer who took charge on 26 August 2019, was reappointed director on 20 June 2025.冶金工程师 B. S. Murty 于 2019 年 8 月 26 日就任校长，并于 2025 年 6 月 20 日获续任。
• B. V. R. Mohan Reddy, founder chairman of the technology company Cyient, chairs the institute's board of governors.科技企业 Cyient 的创始人兼董事长 B. V. R. Mohan Reddy 出任该校董事会主席。
• Srivari Chandrasekhar, secretary of the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India, inaugurated the institute's Technology Research Park on 4 February 2022.印度政府科技部秘书 Srivari Chandrasekhar 于 2022 年 2 月 4 日为该院技术研究园揭幕。
• A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, the former President of India, floated the course "Empowering 3 billion" at the institute in 2012.印度前总统 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 于 2012 年在该院开设「赋能三十亿人」课程。
• Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, a Grammy Award winner in 1994 and holder of the Padma Bhushan, teaches the veena at the institute.1994 年格莱美奖得主、莲花装勋章获得者 Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt 在该院教授维纳琴。
• Aravind Kumar Rengan, a faculty member in engineering, received the Indian National Science Academy Young Scientist Medal in 2017.工程学科教师 Aravind Kumar Rengan 于 2017 年获得印度国家科学院青年科学家奖章。
• Shibu Chameettachal, a doctoral student, won an award at the Gandhian Young Technological Innovation awards in 2018.博士生 Shibu Chameettachal 于 2018 年在甘地青年技术创新奖评选中获奖。
• Saumya Gupta, a joint secretary in the Ministry of Education, is the central government nominee on the institute's board of governors.教育部联合秘书 Saumya Gupta 是该校董事会中的中央政府提名人。
• Vijay Deverakonda, the Telugu film actor, graced the ninth edition of Elan and ηVision to promote its eco-friendly social campaign.泰卢固语电影演员 Vijay Deverakonda 出席第九届「Elan 与 ηVision」，为其环保公益宣传助力。
• Zakir Khan, the Indian comedian, performed at the institute's annual festival as part of its pronite series.印度喜剧演员 Zakir Khan 曾在该院年度文化节的夜间演出系列中登台表演。