Atal Bihari Vajpayee Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior

Atal Bihari Vajpayee Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior
Motto विश्वजीवानामृतम ज्ञानम्
Motto in English
 Knowledge is elixir for the world
Type Public university
Established 1997
Director Sanjeev Govind Deshmukh
Academic staff
 30 (full time) + visiting and guest faculty
Students 732 (on campus)
Postgraduates 300
90
Location Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India
26°14′54″N 78°10′29″E / 26.248468°N 78.174592°E / 26.248468; 78.174592Coordinates: 26°14′54″N 78°10′29″E / 26.248468°N 78.174592°E / 26.248468; 78.174592
Campus Urban, 160 acres (0.65 km2)
Website www.iiitm.ac.in

Atal Bihari Vajpayee Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior (ABV-IIITM Gwalior), commonly known as the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior (IIITM Gwalior), is a university located in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India. Established in 1997 and named for Atal Bihari Vajpayee, it was recognized as an Institute of National Importance.

Campus

The institute is located on a 160-acre (0.65 km2) campus near Gwalior Fort. It is a residential campus; faculty and students live on campus. It houses several departmental blocks with academic block houses lecture theatres, seminar halls, library, laboratories and faculty offices, administrative block, an open amphitheatre, indoor sports complex and the student hostels. There are three hostels for boys and one for girls. The campus has a variety of plants including those with medicinal properties. The institute initially operated from a temporary site in Madhav Institute of Technology and Science Gwalior (MITS) and later shifted to its own facility.

Library

The college was initially equipped with a main reference library with a capacity of 24,000 books and a reading room adjacent to it, inside the academic block itself. Recently, the college has opened a large three-story central library adjacent to the academic block that has centralized air-conditioning and has a capacity of 80,000 books. Moreover, e-resources and online journals are maintained as part of a digital library to further facilitate the students and scholars in their quest for knowledge.[1]The library subscribes to journals, periodicals, and magazines in the area of IT and management. The library has videotapes and video CDs for use by the students.

The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) set up the "Indian National Digital Library in Engineering Sciences and Technology" (INDEST) consortium. This provides students with a collection of journals and industrial database like IEEE, EBSCO, CME, ABI/Inform complete, Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library, IEEE - IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL)|IEL[2] Online, J-Gate Engineering and technology, ProQuest Science journals and Springer Verlag's link.

Academics

The institute offers postgraduate programs, which include Master of Technology (MTech) in various information technology fields, Master of Business Administration (MBA), PhD, and a five-year integrated BTech/MTech or BTech/MBA program. In addition, Management Development Programmes and Faculty Development Programmes are offered.[3] The institute also offers a B.Tech undergraduate programme.[4]

Achievements

Students achievements

A team from the institute won the 2008 ACM ICPC Asia Regional Contest, an IT programming contest held in Kanpur.

Rankings

University rankings
Engineering – India
India Today (2017)[5] 21
Business/Management – India
NIRF (2018)[6] 51–75

Among engineering colleges in India, IIITM was ranked 21 by India Today in 2017.[5] Among business schools in India, it was ranked in the 51–75 band by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2018.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Manager, NGI Content. "Resource Center". www.iiitm.ac.in. Retrieved 2016-08-13.
  2. ↑ "Electronic Library". Ieee.org. 22 August 2011. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
  3. ↑ "Programs | ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior". iiitm.ac.in. Retrieved 14 November 2011.
  4. ↑ "ABV-Indian Institute of Information technology & Management, Gwalior Launching of New Academic programmes". ABV-IIITM. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
  5. 1 2 "India's Best Colleges 2017: Engineering". India Today. 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
  6. 1 2 "National Institutional Ranking Framework 2018 (Management)". National Institutional Ranking Framework. Ministry of Human Resource Development. 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
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