Indian Institute of Technology Madras

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras, also known as IIT Madras or IIT-M, is a public research university and technical institute in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, founded in 1959 with technical, academic and financial assistance from the government of West Germany.印度理工学院马德拉斯分校（Indian Institute of Technology Madras，简称 IIT Madras 或 IIT-M）是位于印度泰米尔纳德邦金奈的一所公立研究型大学与技术学院，1959 年在西德政府的技术、学术与资金援助下创办。

It was the third Indian Institute of Technology to be established, and it is recognised both as an Institute of Eminence and as an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India.它是第三所成立的印度理工学院，并被印度政府认定为卓越学院与国家重要学院。

History

• In 1956 the government of West Germany offered technical assistance to establish a state-of-the-art engineering institute in India.1956 年，西德政府主动提出提供技术援助，在印度建立一所顶尖的工程学院。

• The first Indo-German agreement was signed in Bonn in 1959 for the establishment of the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, then the most significant international educational project sponsored by the Federal Republic of Germany.1959 年，印德两国在波恩签署首份协议，决定在马德拉斯建立印度理工学院，这是当时德意志联邦共和国资助的最重要的国际教育项目。

• Under the agreement the West German government supplied a workshop, laboratory equipment and a library worth no more than 1.8 crore rupees, twenty German professors for four to five years and four German foremen for two years.根据协议，西德政府提供了价值不超过 1800 万卢比的工作坊、实验设备与图书馆，以及任期四至五年的二十名德国教授与任期两年的四名德国工长。

• It also provided facilities for the training of twenty Indian teachers in German institutions, which led to collaborative research with German universities over the following decades.协议还提供设施，供二十名印度教师在德国院校接受培训，此后数十年间由此产生了与德国高校的合作研究。

• Although official support from the German government has ended, research efforts involving the DAAD programme and Humboldt Fellowships continue.尽管德国政府的官方支持已经结束，涉及 DAAD 项目与洪堡奖学金的科研合作仍在继续。

• The institute began functioning when its first batch of 120 students was admitted in July 1959 to the first year of the engineering course.学院于 1959 年 7 月录取首批 120 名学生进入工程课程一年级，由此开始运转。

• IIT Madras was inaugurated in 1959 by the then Union Minister for Scientific Research and Cultural Affairs.1959 年，马德拉斯理工学院由当时的联邦科学研究与文化事务部长主持揭幕。

• In 1961 the Indian Institutes of Technology were declared Institutes of National Importance.1961 年，各印度理工学院被宣布为国家重要学院。

• The first convocation was held on 11 July 1964, when Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, then president of India, delivered the address and awarded degrees to the inaugural batch.首届毕业典礼于 1964 年 7 月 11 日举行，当时的印度总统萨瓦帕利·拉达克里希南发表演讲并向首届学生授予学位。

• The institute admitted its first women students in the Bachelor of Technology batch of 1966.学院在 1966 级的工程技术学士班中首次招收女生。

• IIT Madras celebrated its Golden Jubilee in 2009 and its Diamond Jubilee in 2019.马德拉斯理工学院于 2009 年庆祝金禧，2019 年庆祝钻禧。

• In April 2017 the institute secured 163 acres of land from the Government of Tamil Nadu for additional research facilities at Thaiyur, named the IITM Discovery Campus.2017 年 4 月，学院从泰米尔纳德邦政府获得 163 英亩土地，在泰尤尔设立新的研究设施，命名为 IITM 探索校区。

• In 2020 the institute launched a four-year online Bachelor of Science degree in Data Science and Applications, which had grown to more than 42,000 active learners by 2026.2020 年，学院推出四年制的数据科学与应用在线理学学士学位项目，到 2026 年其活跃学习者已超过 42000 人。

• In March 2023 IIT Madras launched a four-year Bachelor of Science in Electronic Systems to meet demand for graduates in electronics and embedded systems.2023 年 3 月，马德拉斯理工学院推出四年制电子系统理学学士学位，以满足电子与嵌入式系统领域对毕业生的需求。

• In February 2026 the institute launched a Bachelor of Science in Management and Data Science through its Department of Management Studies, with the first batch starting in June 2026.2026 年 2 月，学院通过管理学系推出管理与数据科学理学学士学位，首批学生于 2026 年 6 月入学。

• Also in February 2026 it launched a fully online Bachelor of Science in Aeronautics and Space Technology, offered through its Centre for Outreach and Digital Education in collaboration with the Department of Aerospace Engineering.同样在 2026 年 2 月，学院通过其外展与数字教育中心，与航空航天工程系合作推出完全在线的航空与航天技术理学学士学位。

• In 2017 and again in 2024 IIT Madras served as the organising institute of the Joint Entrance Examination Advanced.2017 年与 2024 年，马德拉斯理工学院两度担任联合入学考试高级阶段的承办院校。

• On 5 July 2023 a memorandum of understanding was signed to establish IIT Madras Zanzibar, the first offshore campus of any Indian Institute of Technology.2023 年 7 月 5 日，各方签署谅解备忘录，决定建立马德拉斯理工学院桑给巴尔校区，这是印度理工学院体系首个海外校区。

• Classes at the Zanzibar campus began in October 2023 from a temporary site at Bweleo, starting with 50 students in the Bachelor of Science and 15 in a Master of Technology in data science and artificial intelligence.桑给巴尔校区于 2023 年 10 月在一处临时校址开课，首批有 50 名理学学士与 15 名数据科学与人工智能技术硕士学生。

• On 20 October 2023 the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology announced that the Bharat Semiconductor Research Centre would be located at IIT Madras.2023 年 10 月 20 日，电子与信息技术部宣布，巴拉特半导体研究中心将设在马德拉斯理工学院。

Academics

• IIT Madras is an autonomous statutory organisation functioning under the Institutes of Technology Act, and the twenty-three IITs are administered centrally by the IIT Council.马德拉斯理工学院是依据《理工学院法》运作的自治法定机构，二十三所印度理工学院由印度理工学院理事会集中管理。

• Each institute has a board of governors responsible for its administration, advised by a finance committee and a Building and Works Committee.每所学院都设有校务委员会负责行政管理，并由财务委员会与建筑与工程委员会提供咨询。

• The Senate comprises all professors of the institute and decides its academic policy, controlling and approving the curriculum, courses, examinations and results.教授会由学院全体教授组成，决定学术政策，并掌控与批准课程体系、科目、考试与成绩。

• The director serves as chairman of the Senate, and the current director, appointed in 2022, is Kamakoti Veezhinathan, who took his doctorate at IIT Madras.院长担任教授会主席；现任院长于 2022 年任命，是卡马科蒂·维日纳森，其博士学位即在本校取得。

• The institute offers undergraduate, postgraduate and research degrees across 18 disciplines in engineering, science, humanities and management.学院在工程、科学、人文与管理领域的 18 个学科授予本科、研究生与研究型学位。

• It has 18 academic departments and advanced research centres with nearly 100 laboratories, and about 600 faculty members are engaged in teaching, research and industrial consultancy.学院设有 18 个学系与高级研究中心，拥有近 100 个实验室，约 600 名教师从事教学、研究与工业咨询。

• Departments range from Aerospace Engineering, Applied Mechanics and Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnology and Chemical Engineering to Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Engineering Design.学系涵盖航空航天工程、应用力学与生物医学工程、生物技术、化学工程、计算机科学与工程、电气工程与工程设计等领域。

• Other departments include Humanities and Social Sciences, Management Studies, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Medical Science and Technology, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Ocean Engineering and Physics.其他学系还包括人文与社会科学、管理学、数学、机械工程、医学科学与技术、冶金与材料工程、海洋工程与物理学。

• The academic calendar is organised around the semester, each providing at least seventy days of instruction in English, with students evaluated continuously throughout the semester.教学日历以学期为单位组织，每学期至少提供七十天的英语授课，学生在一学期中接受持续评估。

• Admission to the Bachelor of Technology and dual degree programmes is through the Joint Entrance Examination Advanced, while the BS Chemistry and BS Medical Sciences and Engineering courses use a separate merit list based on the IAT examination.工程技术学士与双学位项目通过联合入学考试高级阶段录取，而化学理学学士与医学科学与工程理学学士则依据 IAT 考试成绩单独录取。

• Admission to the Master of Technology and Master of Science programmes is through the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering, the MSc programme through the Joint Admission Test to MSc, and the MBA through the Common Admission Test.技术硕士与理学硕士项目通过工程研究生入学考试录取，理科硕士通过理科硕士联合入学考试录取，工商管理硕士则通过通用入学考试录取。

• In 2025 the institute introduced a new admission route allowing students who have excelled in national and international Olympiads to secure seats without a JEE score, together with sports and fine arts quotas.2025 年，学院推出新的录取途径，在全国与国际奥林匹克竞赛中表现优异的学生无需 JEE 成绩即可入学，此外还设有体育与美术特长名额。

• About 600 faculty belong to science and engineering departments and centres, and research work is evaluated by peer examiners from both within India and abroad.约 600 名教师隶属于科学与工程各学系与中心，研究工作由来自印度国内外的同行评审人评定。

• The Department of Biotechnology is housed in the Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences, and the institute also runs the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.生物技术系设于布帕特与乔蒂·梅塔生物科学学院内，学院还设有数据科学与人工智能系。

• The institute's four-year BS in Data Science and Applications has 142 credits across three levels, the Foundation of 32 credits, the Diploma of 54 credits and the Degree of 56 credits.学院四年制数据科学与应用理学学士共 142 学分，分三个层级：32 学分的预科、54 学分的文凭与 56 学分的学位。

• That programme follows a trimester system with terms from January to April, May to August and September to December, admits students three times a year and is open to all academic backgrounds and age groups.该项目实行三学期制，学期分别为一月至四月、五月至八月与九月至十二月，每年招生三次，面向所有学术背景与年龄段开放。

• The institute maintains academic links with universities around the world through faculty exchange programmes and memoranda of understanding that lead to cooperative projects.学院通过教师交流项目与谅解备忘录与世界各地的大学保持学术联系，并由此开展合作项目。

• IIT Madras also offers diploma courses in Programming and in Data Science as part of the multiple-entry multiple-exit scheme of the BS in Data Science and Applications.作为数据科学与应用理学学士多入口多出口机制的一部分，马德拉斯理工学院还开设编程与数据科学文凭课程。

Campus

• The main entrance of IIT Madras is on Sardar Patel Road, flanked by the residential districts of Adyar and Velachery and close to the official residence of the Governor of Tamil Nadu.马德拉斯理工学院的正门位于萨达尔·帕特尔路，两侧是阿迪亚尔与韦拉切里住宅区，并靠近泰米尔纳德邦邦长的官邸。

• Two parallel roads, Bonn Avenue and Delhi Avenue, cut through the faculty residential area before meeting at the Gajendra Circle near the Administrative Block.波恩大道与德里大道两条平行道路穿过教师住宅区，在行政楼附近的加金德拉圆环交汇。

• The campus covers 620 acres and is urban, with buses regularly running between the Main Gate, Gajendra Circle, the Academic Zone and the Hostel Zone.校园占地 620 英亩，属城市型校区，校车定期往返于正门、加金德拉圆环、教学区与宿舍区之间。

• Most students live in student hostels, and the campus has 21 hostels, of which several are currently reserved exclusively for women.大多数学生住在学生宿舍，校园共有 21 栋宿舍，其中若干栋目前专供女性使用。

• Dining facilities are provided in three centralised halls, Nilgiri, Vindhya and Himalaya, after the attached hostel messes were closed from about 2010.各宿舍附设的食堂自 2010 年前后陆续关闭后，用餐改由尼尔吉里、温迪亚与喜马拉雅三座集中食堂提供。

• Hostels are named after Indian rivers, including Alakananda, Brahmaputra, Cauvery, Ganga, Godavari, Krishna, Narmada, Saraswathi and Tamiraparani.宿舍多以印度河流命名，包括阿拉卡南达、布拉马普特拉、高韦里、恒河、戈达瓦里、克里希纳、讷尔默达、萨拉斯瓦蒂与塔米拉帕拉尼。

• Mandakini hostel is nine storeys high, while Sindhu, Pampa, Mahanadhi and Tamiraparani are seven storeys, and the others are three or four storeys.曼达基尼宿舍高九层，信度、潘帕、马哈纳迪与塔米拉帕拉尼为七层，其余宿舍则为三至四层。

• The self-contained campus includes two schools, three temples, three bank branches, a hospital, shopping centres, a gym and stadiums for cricket, football, hockey and badminton.校园自成一体，设有两所学校、三座寺庙、三个银行网点、一家医院、购物中心、健身房以及板球、足球、曲棍球与羽毛球场地。

• IIT Madras also has supercomputing capability, with an IBM super cluster providing 97 teraflops of computational power.马德拉斯理工学院还具备超级计算能力，其 IBM 超级集群可提供每秒 97 万亿次浮点运算的算力。

• The IITM Discovery Campus at Thaiyur houses a national research facility with Asia's largest shallow wave basin, catering to research and industry requirements.位于泰尤尔的 IITM 探索校区设有一座国家级研究设施，拥有亚洲最大的浅水波浪水池，服务于科研与产业需求。

• The Discovery Campus also hosts startups such as ePlane, Agnikul and Hyperloop.探索校区还孵化着 ePlane、Agnikul 与 Hyperloop 等初创企业。

• IIT Madras Research Park, India's first university-based research park, promotes innovation in established companies and incubates startups.马德拉斯理工学院研究园是印度首个以大学为基础的研究园，既推动成熟企业的创新，也孵化初创企业。

• Corporate clients of the Research Park include the Defence Research and Development Organisation, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, Saint-Gobain and Forbes Marshall.研究园的企业客户包括国防研究与发展组织、巴拉特重型电气有限公司、圣戈班与福布斯·马歇尔。

• The Zanzibar campus began from a temporary site at Bweleo and could move into a 225-acre permanent campus by 2025.桑给巴尔校区最初设在布韦莱奥的临时校址，并有望在 2025 年前迁入 225 英亩的永久校园。

• The Heritage Centre, located on the ground floor of the administration building, was inaugurated on 3 March 2006 and serves as a repository of the institute's historical material.校史馆位于行政楼底层，于 2006 年 3 月 3 日揭幕，是学院历史资料的收藏中心。

Reputation

• IIT Madras was ranked 170th in the QS World University Rankings 2027, an improvement of ten places from the previous year.马德拉斯理工学院在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 170，比上一年提升十个名次。

• It was ranked in the 701 to 800 band in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities of 2022.在 2022 年世界大学学术排名中，它位于全球 701 至 800 名区间。

• The National Institutional Ranking Framework placed IIT Madras first in the overall category for the seventh consecutive year in 2025.全国院校排名框架在 2025 年连续第七年将马德拉斯理工学院列为综合排名第一。

• The same framework ranked it second among research institutions and first among engineering colleges for the tenth consecutive year, and also first in the innovation and sustainable development goals categories.同一框架还将其列为研究机构第二、工程学院连续第十年第一，并在创新与可持续发展目标类别中名列第一。

• IIT Madras was recognised as an Institute of Eminence by the Government of India, a status granted to a select group of Indian universities.马德拉斯理工学院被印度政府认定为卓越学院，这一地位仅授予少数印度高校。

• The institute is recognised as an Institute of National Importance under the Institutes of Technology Act.依据《理工学院法》，该学院被认定为国家重要学院。

• Its BS in Data Science programme won a silver award at the Wharton School and QS Reimagine Education Awards.其数据科学理学学士项目在沃顿商学院与 QS 的“重塑教育”奖项中获得银奖。

• In 2021 the institute had an endowment of 700 crore rupees, equivalent to about 93 million US dollars.2021 年，学院的捐赠基金为 70 亿卢比，约合 9300 万美元。

• Its budget for 2021 to 2022 was 996 crore rupees.其 2021 至 2022 年度预算为 99.6 亿卢比。

• As of 2021 the institute had 10,238 students, made up of 4,909 undergraduates, 2,488 postgraduates and 2,841 doctoral candidates, taught by 674 academic staff.截至 2021 年，学院有学生 10238 人，其中本科生 4909 人、研究生 2488 人、博士生 2841 人，学术教师 674 人。

• IIT Madras is the prime driver of a large number of startups, and following the success of its Research Park, 50 research parks were planned under the Start Up India initiative.马德拉斯理工学院是大量初创企业的核心推手；在其研究园取得成功后，印度中央政府“创业印度”计划中规划了 50 个研究园。

Student life

• IIT Madras is home to Shaastra, its annual technical festival held in January and certified under ISO 9001, which has run in its present form since 2000.马德拉斯理工学院举办年度技术节 Shaastra，该节在每年一月举行并通过 ISO 9001 认证，自 2000 年起以现行形式延续。

• Saarang is the annual social and cultural festival, a five-day event held in early January that attracts about 70,000 students and young people.Saarang 是年度社会与文化节，为期五天，在每年一月初举行，吸引约 70000 名学生与年轻人。

• The Entrepreneurship Cell, formerly known as C-TIDES and renamed in 2015, organises E-Summit, the institute's annual flagship entrepreneurship event.创业社团前身名为 C-TIDES，2015 年更名，负责举办学院年度旗舰创业活动 E-Summit。

• The Centre for Innovation, set up in 2008 with funds donated by the batch of 1981, houses 13 clubs and seven competition teams.创新中心于 2008 年以 1981 级校友捐款设立，下设 13 个社团与 7 支竞赛队伍。

• Among the teams housed at the Centre for Innovation are Avishkar Hyperloop, Raftar Formula Racing, Anveshak, Abhiyaan, Abhyuday, Agnirath and iGem.创新中心旗下的队伍包括 Avishkar Hyperloop、Raftar 方程式赛车队、Anveshak、Abhiyaan、Abhyuday、Agnirath 与 iGem。

• Extra Mural Lectures, launched in 1980, have hosted speakers including the former president A. P. J. Abdul Kalam and the chess grandmaster Viswanathan Anand.校外讲座始于 1980 年，曾邀请前总统阿卜杜勒·卡拉姆与国际象棋特级大师维斯瓦纳坦·阿南德等演讲者。

• The Fifth Estate is the official media body of the institute, and the Open Air Theatre hosts a weekly movie as a Saturday night tradition.The Fifth Estate 是学院的官方媒体机构，露天剧场则以每周放映电影作为周六夜间的传统。

• The National Service Scheme wing at IIT Madras has over 400 students each year and works with several non-governmental organisations on socially relevant projects.马德拉斯理工学院的国家服务计划分部每年有 400 多名学生参与，并与多个非政府组织合作开展具有社会意义的项目。

• Prakriti, the wildlife club, was founded in April 2002, and the campus is home to endangered blackbuck as well as deer.野生动物社团 Prakriti 成立于 2002 年 4 月，校园内栖息着濒危的印度黑羚与鹿群。

• The campus has developed a slang known as Insti Lingo, and no single Indian language dominates among its students, with Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi, Kannada, English and Hindi all in common use.校园里形成了一种称为 Insti Lingo 的俚语；学生中并没有单一的主导语言，泰米尔语、泰卢固语、马拉雅拉姆语、马拉地语、卡纳达语、英语与印地语都被广泛使用。

• The Sustainability Network, launched in May 2009, is an alumni, student and faculty initiative to make the campus self-sustaining in energy, water and waste management.可持续发展网络于 2009 年 5 月发起，由校友、学生与教师共同推动，旨在让校园在能源、水与废弃物管理方面实现自我维持。

Notable people

• Notable alumni include Aravind Srinivas, chief executive and co-founder of Perplexity AI, and Kris Gopalakrishnan, co-founder of Infosys.著名校友包括 Perplexity AI 首席执行官兼联合创始人阿拉温德·斯里尼瓦斯，以及印孚瑟斯联合创始人克里斯·戈帕拉克里希南。

• Other alumni include Sridhar Vembu and Radha Vembu, founders of Zoho Corporation, and B. Muthuraman, former managing director of Tata Steel.其他校友还包括 Zoho 公司创始人斯里达尔·文布与拉达·文布，以及塔塔钢铁前董事总经理穆图拉曼。

• B. Jayant Baliga, an alumnus, invented the insulated gate bipolar transistor, and Prem Watsa founded and chairs Fairfax Financial Holdings.校友贾扬特·巴利加发明了绝缘栅双极晶体管，普雷姆·瓦察则创办并执掌费尔法克斯金融控股公司。

• Anand Rajaraman founded Junglee, Vic Gundotra was a senior vice president of Google, and Krishna Bharat created Google News.阿南德·拉贾拉曼创办了 Junglee，维克·冈多特拉曾任谷歌高级副总裁，克里希纳·巴拉特则创造了谷歌新闻。

• Subra Suresh served as president of Carnegie Mellon University and director of the National Science Foundation, and Anant Agarwal is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.苏布拉·苏雷什曾任卡内基梅隆大学校长与美国国家科学基金会主任，阿南特·阿加瓦尔则是麻省理工学院的教授。

• L. Mahadevan is a professor at Harvard University and a MacArthur Fellow, while Prabhakar Raghavan is a vice president of engineering at Google.马哈德万是哈佛大学教授兼麦克阿瑟奖得主，普拉巴卡尔·拉加万则是谷歌工程副总裁。

• Other distinguished alumni include Marti Subrahmanyam of New York University, Ramayya Krishnan of Carnegie Mellon University and Sridhar Tayur, founder of SmartOps.其他杰出校友还包括纽约大学的马蒂·苏布拉马尼亚姆、卡内基梅隆大学的拉马亚·克里希南，以及 SmartOps 创始人斯里达尔·塔尤尔。

• Viswanathan Kumaran and several other alumni have received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, which is one of India's highest science awards.维斯瓦纳坦·库马兰等多位校友曾获香蒂·斯瓦鲁普·巴特纳加尔奖，这是印度最高科学奖项之一。