We invite alumni, individuals, government organisations, NGOs and corporate entities to connect with IIITB and to contribute to its growth. There are many ways to connect and contribute.

Platforms for collaboration/connect :

• Internship Program: Full-time, six months internship in the final semester for our M. Tech. students, running from January to June, every year. And two months internship for integrated students in summer from 2014
• Final Placements : Final placements for our M. Tech. students, graduating in July every year.
• Scholarship program: Full or partial scholarship to Integrated M. Tech. and M. Tech. students to pursue their studies
• Collaboration by funding research projects
• Collaboration by funding chair professorships
• Funding of lab equipment/software
• Delivering guest lectures and/or courses to our students as adjunct faculty on pro bono basis
• Organizing boot camps/code competitions / student projects etc.
• Participation in incubation activities by mentoring incubated companies and / or providing seed capital to them
• Instituting Chair Professorship
• Faculty/student travel grants and donation

Donations to the institute will be exempt under sec 80 G of the Income tax Act, 1961, vide No. DIT(E)BLR/80G(R)/11/AAATI1037P/ITO(E)-1/Vol2012-13 dated 19/02/2013. (click here)

Contributions to our research fund will be exempt under section 35 (1) (ii) of the income tax Act, 1961 Act, vide Notification No 12/2013 and F. No. 203/9/2012/ITA-II dated 20th February, 2013 issued by Central Board of Direct Taxes, Govt of India, which provides for 175% of the contribution to be allowed as deductible expenditure in computing taxable income. (click here)

IIIT-Bangalore was established in 1999 due to a joint initiative from Government of Karnataka and the IT industry. Today, it has become the largest Graduate School (Masters and Doctoral Programs) in IT in India.

The mission of the Institute is to build on the track record set by India in general and Bangalore in particular, to enable India to play a key role in the global IT scenario through a world class institute with a focus on education and research, entrepreneurship and innovation.

The Institute was structured as a Registered Society, with seven founding members drawn from Government, Industry and Academia. It now consists of, apart from founding members, Patron members (industries who donate Rs 1 crore and above), Industry members, and, Individuals who have the expertise and have made significant contribution to IT. The Institute is managed by a Governing Body. The Governing Body currently has 17 members, with 9 elected from among the members of the society, six invited (drawn from Government of Karnataka, Government of India, Academic Institutions, Industry Bodies like NASSCOM), one representing alumni and the Director. Even the persons drawn from the governments or academic institutions are invited by the Governing Body.

The Institute engages itself in education and research, entrepreneurship and innovation and activities of think tank to assist government and industry in better utilisation of Information Technology.

Education and Research:

The institute became a deemed university in 2005. It started offering M.Tech and Ph.D programmes since then. Prior to the deemed university status, the Institute offered a highly valued post graduate diploma programme. In 2012, it started a five year integrated M. Tech programme admitting students who have completed their higher secondary school educations. It continues to be a graduate school with about 300 M Tech students, 170 integrated M. Tech students and about 80 MS/PhD students.

IIT-Bangalore has an applicant: student ratio of higher than 15. It has attracted people with PhD degrees from MIT, UC Berkeley, Univ. of Toronto, Purdue, leading universities of Europe, IIT’s and IISc to be on its 36 strong faculty. Its 1800+ M Tech graduates work in 100+ corporations in 20+ countries. Some decided to pursue doctoral programs in leading Universities like UC Berkeley / MIT.

IIIT-Bangalore is highly rated. According to Tandon Committee constituted by MHRD Report of March 2009, IIIT-B has the highest ranking among all IIIT’s and has the same score as IISc (the first Deemed University). National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) has accredited the institute with the Highest Grade of A.

The research work at IIITB is highly valuable and recognised. It has the best track record among IIITs in respect of publications in recognised journals and conferences. Its faculty have obtained 8 international patents and have applied for four more. Its faculty have contributed to IEEE standards on 4 G. Faculties have won many research grants and awards from both national and international bodies.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation:

The institute has been innovative by providing incubation support to new ideas right from 2000. The well-known Tutor Vista was incubated at IIITB. So far we have incubated 12 ideas of which 8 are in the market. Currently we are supporting six companies in areas as diverse as Education, Health Care and Energy. We incorporated a not-for-profit Sec 25 (now section 8) company named IIITB Innovation Centre on 30th March 2009. An incubation policy has been approved.

• First priority to proposals based on the work already carried out at the institute, which has a commercial potential. The faculty and students who have worked on the concept will be encouraged to establish an enterprise.
• Second priority is to support ideas that have commercial potential, but so far have not been researched at the institute, provided faculty and students of the institute are willing to partner with the promoter of the idea and establish an enterprise.
• The Centre will support ideas which has a clear exit rules and exit must happen within three to five years

Think Tank

Right from the beginning, the Institute has been playing a research and advisory role to various government initiatives in the E-Governance area. Our faculty serves on a number of government committees and help them in shaping E-Governance policies. We also have researched in to penetration of IT in Banks through two surveys. In 2012 we set up a Centre for IT and Public Policy. Of particular interest to the Centre is how technological advances, along with institutional changes that harness the legitimacy and the powers of bureaucracies and markets, can address the needs of underserved communities. It seeks to provide a means to nurture and transform public policy through the use of ICTs by engaging with academic faculty and researchers, policy planners, political leaders and community representatives, technology vendors, public officials and civil society organisations. The Centre brings together best-practices demonstrating the power of ICTs and analytical tools for information management, modelling, and forecasting. CITAPP engages in research and evaluation studies of topics where ICTs and public.

The Finance Model:

The Institute is one of the earliest examples of a good public private partnership. While the Government of Karnataka took the initiative in providing the land and capital expenditure, the industry has supported by providing grants to build a corpus, chair professorships, scholarships and research support. The Government of India also supports the Institute by providing grants for research and laboratories. Infosys, HP and ICICI initially gave a grant of Rs 1 crore each to become initial patron members. Canara Bank, Bank of India, iFlex, STPI and Infosys Foundation have instituted chair professorship. Many industries like ABB, Nokia, HP, Intel, and Microsoft have supported research activities through fellowships and research grants.

The Institute meets its operating expenditure from student fees (60%), research grants (20%), interest from corpus and other incomes (20%). The institute, unlike IITs and IISc, does not receive grants from government towards its operations.

The Need Now:

The institute is poised for rapid growth. We started an integrated M.Tech programme in 2012. By 2017 we will have 600 students pursuing this. In 2014 we started a M. Tech in Electronic System Design. By 2017 the institute will have nearly 1000 students and 60 faculties. In order to provide world class education, carry out high impact research and continue to provide support to innovators we need to (a) enhance our infrastructure; a new academic block of 1,20,000 sq. feet is being proposed (b) offer more scholarships to attract better students (c) set up Centres of Excellence for research in various areas and (d) provide seed capital assistance to new innovative ideas. We reckon a sum of Rs 100 crores will be required for all these activities.

The industry can support us with (a) instituting Chair professorship (b) offering scholarships (c) support our specialised centres for research programmes (d) contribute towards construction of new academic block and (e) provide grants to our Sec 8 company IIITB Innovation Centre which will enable it to offer seed capital to innovative ideas.

Chair Professorships are grants to the Institute. The Money donated is kept in an earmarked fund and invested. The interest earned on investments as well as the principle available is used to meet the expenditure of the Chair Professor. A grant of Rs 50 lakhs will enable a Chair Professorship of 5 years, Rs one Crore for 10 years and Rs 3 crores for 33 years.

Scholarships: A grant of Rs 15 lakhs will graduate one Integrated M.Tech student meeting both tuition and living expenditure over the five year period. A grant of Rs 6 lakhs will enable one M Tech student to meet his tuition and living expenditure. The Institute charges lower tuition for PhD scholars. Thus a grant of Rs 15 lakhs will meet their reduced tuition, living expenditure and leave them with a stipend over a four year period.

Support to Research Centres: This would be based on discussion and mutually agreed work plan over a three or five year period. 

Support to Innovation: A grant of Rs 50 lakhs will enable us to provide seed capital to an idea till it reaches the market. Needless to say the grantor will be involved in all stages of decision making for any of the above ways of participation.

Benefits to the Industry

Apart from the satisfaction of supporting a noble cause, the industry can account for this expenditure under the mandated CSR activity. In case the industry does not want to use CSR funds, but account the grant/donation as expenditure in the books of accounts, the industry will get benefits under section 35 (1) (2) of the IT act which enables the industry to account 175% of the donation as allowable expenditure and reduce the income tax substantially. This also creates warm feelings within the student and teaching community of the institute, but also visitors to the institute and its website.